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.

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.