The “Easiest” $15 Ever – Should You Open the New Venmo Card?

Everybody uses Venmo now, right?  I’m not exactly on the cutting edge here, but I’m a fan of anything that makes payments faster and easier.  Venmo is one of those technologies.  The subject line of an email caught my eye the other day:  “Apply for Venmo card, use it and you could earn $15 on eligible purchases”

Given me typical infatuation with free money, I had to open the email!  Normally, $15 isn’t really a great sign up bonus.  A double digit welcome offer?  HA!  Any good travel hacker should skip right over that, in favor of hundreds of dollars, or thousands of points (or both!).  But here’s the thing, it’s not a credit card.  As far as I can tell, the Venmo card is essentially a prepaid…