{"id":13690,"date":"2026-05-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:22:21","slug":"whoop-wisdom-when-your-card-is-banned-obscure-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/whoop-wisdom-when-your-card-is-banned-obscure-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoop Wisdom: When Your Card is Banned, Obscure It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Whoop fitness tracker famously had an offer on personal Chase Sapphire cards for (effectively) a free device and year of service. Buyer&#8217;s groups were paying above $230 for sending them your free device, usually straight from Whoop which worked well for early adopters. Later though, Whoop realized what was happening, put together a list of known buyer&#8217;s groups addresses, and then instantly banned any credit cards used one of those addresses for shipping for that order and for all future orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a way around the ban though, and it should give you an object lesson in probing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Buying with Apple Pay side-skirted the ban<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Why did this work? Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/legal\/privacy\/data\/en\/apple-pay\/\">from Apple&#8217;s lips to your eyes<\/a>: &#8220;<em>The card number from your credit, debit, or prepaid card is not provided when you use Apple\u00a0Pay.<\/em>&#8221; In other words, Whoop didn&#8217;t have the actual card number used for purchase to reference with their ban list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When your card is the issue, try:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PayPal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Google Pay<\/s> <s>Android Pay<\/s> Google Wallet <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apple Pay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curve Pay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kasheesh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Even more obscure options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck friends!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13691\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-11.png 640w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-11-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The Apple Terms and Conditions, err, apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whoop fitness tracker famously had an offer on personal Chase Sapphire cards for (effectively) a free device and year of service. Buyer&#8217;s groups were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13692,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions\/13692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}