{"id":2539,"date":"2007-09-05T22:36:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/metacard-virtual-l-credit-card-for-second-life\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:23:00","slug":"metacard-virtual-l-credit-card-for-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/metacard-virtual-l-credit-card-for-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaCard Virtual L$ Credit Card for Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Life virtual residents can now enjoy cashless shopping with the new <strong>MetaCard, a virtual L$ credit card<\/strong>. Buy stuff and pay for it later in L$, the official Second life currency. Its usage is very similar to credit cards offered by Mastercard, Visa, American Express etc.<\/p>\n<p>With the Metacard, when you buy products, there is no need to pay L$ cash, instead charge your purchases to the MetaCard and buy the item immediately. At end of each billing cycle, you&#8217;ll receive a statement about payment pending and the minimum payment required. Interest accrues only on rolled-over balances.<\/p>\n<p>Now increase your spending ability, participate in the <strong>MetaRewards<\/strong> program to earn reward points for shopping with your credit card, get instant L$ cash and grow your L$ Earn interest on your free <strong>MetaSavings deposit account<\/strong>. Here is complete list of merchants where the credit card is accepted.<\/p>\n<h3>Types of Metacard credit cards<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Standard card <\/strong>has a credit limit of L$ 5,000 per month. <strong>Gold card<\/strong> has a credit limit of L$ 10,000 per month. For issue of Gold card, the customer is required to provide a real-life credit or debit card number. Applications for the MetaCard Gold are automatically approved and applications for the MetaCard Basic take about 3 business days.<\/p>\n<p>Remember there is a <strong>L$500 Minimum purchase amount<\/strong> for waiver of monthly fee (which is L$ 300 if purchases do not exceed minimum purchase amount.) There are many other clauses and charges, which are detailed in the terms and conditions. Metacard is a product of First Meta, a venture-backed start-up based in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Now that is a great deal for Second life resisdent and will start a new era in the virtual world economy. Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/09\/04\/metacard-the-worlds-first-virtual-world-credit-card\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Techcrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Life virtual residents can now enjoy cashless shopping with the new MetaCard, a virtual L$ credit card. Buy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}