The cards are a money maker for the laundry… especially in vacation and destination areas… a deposit for the card, lost money left on the card, less maintenance than on coin chute mechanisms… and yes they will load $22 for $20 cost…
In these transient areas the deposit on the unreturned cards is a big profit center alone… the returned cards value is not refunded and the card deposited mailed but somehow they get lost in the mail…
The un-refunded money left on the returned cards is more often than not used by the laundry itself that does customer laundry by the pound doubling its worth of the un-refunded money…
It might be a good system when run right, but my experience with them is they are used by greedy little thieves swindling anybody they can, any way they can…
the one in Estero refused to refund the value saying it was policy even though it’s not posted… so I used my cards to pay for everybody in the place laundry before returning the cards, and they had the nerve to call the cops on me for doing it and said I had to leave… so I left when they asked and when people from the public parking lot came I gave them a card to use to load their washer, and waited for the police that they called… that was comical as he!!, Six cars and seven sheriffs show up because I was paying for others peoples laundry…
these are in-house prepaid cards… not credit or debit cards…