Ask your bank to set you up with a secondary account for online purchases, and keep only a small amount in that account. The account would need its own ATM card, with its own credit card number. Just make sure this account lacks overdraft protection; you don’t want money moving automatically from your real account into this one.
Buy a Visa Gift Card online from an official retailer. Con: not reloadable so when it’s done it’s done. One of many example retailers: www.giftcards.com/visa-gift-cards Additionally, in Germany you can buy gift cards at these locations and more: Gallerian, Kaufhof, Karstadt, Douglas, H&M, etc.
I would need to do more research into it, but you could look into getting a virtual credit card, like VCPay. Here’s an article from a South African explaining how he is using it: https://toughnickel.com/personal-finance/VCpay
Another possible method that I would need to test to see if it can be used like a credit card is Paysafecard (https://www.paysafecard.com/en-us/products/) I did a search using my village’s postal code and found vendors in my village and the two neighboring ones.
Finally, in my research I found Global GCash Virtual Pay, which has a lot of little nice benefits that can be used.
Ask your bank to set you up with a secondary account for online purchases, and keep only a small amount in that account. The account would need its own ATM card, with its own credit card number. Just make sure this account lacks overdraft protection; you don’t want money moving automatically from your real account into this one.
Buy a Visa Gift Card online from an official retailer. Con: not reloadable so when it’s done it’s done. One of many example retailers: www.giftcards.com/visa-gift-cards Additionally, in Germany you can buy gift cards at these locations and more: Gallerian, Kaufhof, Karstadt, Douglas, H&M, etc.
I would need to do more research into it, but you could look into getting a virtual credit card, like VCPay. Here’s an article from a South African explaining how he is using it: https://toughnickel.com/personal-finance/VCpay
Another possible method that I would need to test to see if it can be used like a credit card is Paysafecard (https://www.paysafecard.com/en-us/products/) I did a search using my village’s postal code and found vendors in my village and the two neighboring ones.
Finally, in my research I found Global GCash Virtual Pay, which has a lot of little nice benefits that can be used.