QUICK ANSWER. To use a Vanilla gift card on Amazon you can either add the card directly to Amazon as a payment type or you can transfer the entire balance over to your Amazon account balance.

Your Vanilla Gift Card will now be available as a payment option on your Amazon account. The next time you're ready to buy something on Amazon, you can use your Vanilla Gift Card when you checkout.

I procured the Vanilla Visa on Cyber Monday, Nov. 27, in an attempt to protect my debit card from being compromised during my first round of heavy holiday shopping.

Giovanna had one of those generic Visa Vanilla gift cards that you can pick up at Walmart, Target, CVS, or even the grocery store. It’s unclear who gave it to her or for what.

Then when I went to use the card again, it was zeroed out and the second card I checked also and it was zeroed out as well," Baker adds. He says it was about $ 140 on the Vanilla Visa gift cards gone.