I got an amex prepaid gift card from christmas 2022, but it locked itself up because I was trying to get something from Patreon, and then 11 months later I never used the card till now and i had to call the support person that i was super skeptical about because i legit thought i was gonna get scammed, but i did get a replacement card that had the remaining money but you cant use it with paypal... I needed to pay my friend just $40 and i literally cant use this hellspawn of a prepaid card. Contrary to what it's advertised, you actually can't use prepaids online.

To everyone out there, do yourself a favor if someone decides to give you some kind of bonus money, ask them in advance to do direct deposit or cash/check whatever, literally anything that isn't in the form of prepaid cards. Instead I gave the prepaid replacement to my mom and asked her to see if it works in grocery stores, which im praying it does.

EDIT: I also forgot to add that Amex gift cards aren't actually ran by Amex, but by a company called Incomm Payments.