Avoid being scammed when it comes to prepaid international phone cards. There always have been and probably will always be fraudsters within this marketplace. With the popularity of phone cards, consumers must be extra cautious. The problem with prepaid international phone cards is you pay for the service upfront and if there are any problems with the service you may not be able to get a refund from the phone card company. Online websites that sell phone cards like www.telephonecard.com.au offer a full refund if you are not satisfied with the phone card that you have bought from them.

People who are new to the telephone card market may fall victim to phone card scams. You don’t hear much about these scams as cards are usually only or so people do not bother complaining if there is a problem. However, due to the intense competition for the international tele-phone card market, we have decided to provide you with some essential hints and tricks to avoid losing money when it comes to buying international phone cards.

Tip 1: Research Research Research

Go online, explore what review sites are saying about particular calling and phone cards. A good phone card review site is www.phonecardreview.com.au You will find many stories about good phone cards and complaints about unreliable phone cards. Look to see if there are any patterns when it comes to a particular brand of card. Heavy calling card users in Australia are recent migrants in the Indian, Russian, African, Thai and Eastern European Community. So if you have a good friend in those communities ask them about phone cards as they will probably know about a good phone card.

Tip 2: Deals Deals Deals

You can find many phone card comparison sites such as www.telephonecard.com.au which allow you to search by location, by brand and by price. Make sure any website you buy from is secured with an SSL certificate (signified with a HTTPS in the URL bar on the page where you enter your credit card details) before you commit to making a purchase. If you are not comfortable buying a phone card over the internet then you can also call the contact number on the website to buy a phone card by phone. Your phone card’s PIN and instructions will be emailed to you, so that you can start calling with your phone card instantly.

Think about:

1. Calling Locations: if you only want to call one Thailand for instance, you can often get a good deal to that country alone. This deal will not be as a good if you meander and call outside countries such as Pakistan. Many calling card niches have developed over the years and it is worth exploring them.

2. What are online forums saying about calling particular cards. Try some specific online search queries on your favourite search engine for your particular need, such as

“calling Afghanistan from Australia” or “call Australia to France cheap” or “calling Italia from Australia”

Tip 3: Terms and Conditions

Read the terms and conditions. Sometimes you will sign up to a phone card that charges hidden admin charges and ongoing maintenance fees. Different cards also have different expiration periods. It is worth noting how long your card will last you. Unlike many shops, websites such as www.telephonecard.com.au provide ethical phone cards with no admin and maintenance fees with very competitive call rates. All cards on that site last for 6 months and any unused credit is recovered when you recharge your phone card online or by phone.

Tip 4: Value

Buy a pre-paid phone card instead of a pre-paid phone card, and you will often also get more talking time. For example, most phone cards offer an additional worth of talk time when you buy a card so it is worthwhile to get the larger denomination if you are happy with the card. For example, with the Asian Connection phone card you pay but you will receive worth of talk time.
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The sales of online phone cards are increasing day-by-day. Now, calling a friend or to make an international call has been made so easy, that you can use any phone and make an international call – be it your cell phone, your office phone, your neighbor’s phone or a telephone booth. Use any phone and the phone card and you can make calls.

The basic benefits of these phone cards are

1. You do not have to switch your long distance carrier. You can purchase the best phone card that suits your need and use it.
2. You receive ease of mobility. You can use your cell phone and the phone card to make the international calls.
3. If you are a frequent traveler, carrying phone cards is much economical to make calls.
4. You have a wide range of phone cards available to choose from. Check the best ones and go ahead buy them online.
5. You get the PIN instantaneously and you can start calling immediately. Payments are accepted online.
6. You have the ability to auto-recharge the card, when the card balance reaches certain amount or minutes. So, you do not have to buy again and again to recharge your card. Moreover, auto-recharge mostly comes with certain discounts or added features.
7. Certain phone cards providers also provide PINLESS dialing. Which is much easy to use.

If you are buying these prepaid cards for the first time, then you need to closely make comparisons on each calling card providers’ services by clearly and properly understanding the fine print that is provided along with the calling card, and make decisions on which one are the best ones that suits your needs and requirements.

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Long distance callers have been ecstatic about prepaid phone cards in the last few years. But for the prepaid phone card and the phone card companies trying to sell them, it has been a long and tiring process to get the quality and deals that are available today. There have been many scammers and frauds that have made it more difficult for legitimate calling card companies to sell phone cards.

Protecting against prepaid phone cards fraud is possible with several precautions taken into consideration before purchasing a calling card. Legitimate phone card companies have been dealing with operators and minute suppliers, but have found that they are not getting what the paid for. In other words, these operators supply the calling card, but are not as highly qualified as they claim in writing.

To make fraud less likely to hit the typical long distance caller, these legitimate phone card companies have offered some basic precautions to take to ensure a quality calling card is given. First, check to see whether the company brand phone card has a point of contact. Should anything be wrong, or any mishap be done to the calling card, it should be easy to contact the company for customer service. This is very important particularly if the customer intends to be a long term user. Having a customer service available gives customers greater peace of mind in the knowledge that there is somewhere they can go to seek further information or if things go wrong.

Next, read the terms and conditions before purchasing your phone card. There is always hidden fees and small charges that can be added onto a calling card. In addition, there could be expiration dates and per-use charges that could affect the value of the calling card. This has become a big issue recently where some customers have had no come back against less than fair practices. The calling card may look cheap on the surface but is there could be hidden charges. Every consumer is entitled to full disclosure on all terms and conditions. If buying a traditional phone card, be sure to check that it hasn’t been tampered with. Check the pin and be sure everything is intact. If it looks like it has been tampered, chances are it won’t have the full minute value, or will not work at all.

Generally, be satisfied that everything seems to check out. Experienced prepaid phone card users often will test a new service by purchasing a token subscription and then trying out the card. This way, they can see just how user-friendly the service is and more importantly, if there is a service at all.

Some people question whether it is worth going through all the trouble to buy a phone card just to make a long distance phone call or two. In reality, there isn’t much more work that needs to be done when comparing shopping for a phone card with most other consumer goods. Performing some rigid checks isn’t all that time consuming and can prevent the loss of a lot of money unnecessarily.

The advantages of using a prepaid phone card generally outweigh the disadvantages with extremely cheap call rates allowing people to communicate long distance on a regular basis, not just state-to-state, but country-to-country. When a company that meets all the requirements is found, stick with them. Avoid the temptation to jump services because there is a slightly cheaper deal elsewhere. There might be a catch in the so called deal.

For more resources about Free Long Distance or even about Free Calling Card and especially about Free International Calling Card please review these links.
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A few nice Calling Card images I found:

Coliseum, Chicago (LOC)


Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Coliseum, Chicago

[1912] (date created or published later by Bain)

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Photo taken at the 1912 Republican National Convention held at the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 18-22. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Chicago

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10555

Call Number: LC-B2- 2415-11

Coliseum, Chicago (LOC)


Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Coliseum, Chicago

1912 (date created or published later by Bain)

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Photo taken at the 1912 Republican National Convention held at the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 18-22. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Chicago

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10554

Call Number: LC-B2- 2415-10

[Roger Bresnahan, St. Louis, NL, Miller Huggins in background (baseball)] (LOC)


Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Roger Bresnahan, St. Louis, NL, Miller Huggins in background (baseball)]

[ca. 1911]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Bresnahan (St. Louis Nat’ls).
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Baseball

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09324

Call Number: LC-B2- 2212-1

Check out these Calling Card images:

The Czar (LOC)


Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

The Czar

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Photo shows Czar Nicholas II on horseback. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Nicholas–II,–Emperor of Russia,–1868-1918.

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11125

Call Number: LC-B2- 2474-12

[Clarence "Skipper" Roberts, St. Louis NL (baseball)] (LOC)


Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Clarence "Skipper" Roberts, St. Louis NL (baseball)]

[1913]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Subway building, N.Y.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.14996

Call Number: LC-B2- 2932-11

Dr. Bridges (LOC)


Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Dr. Bridges

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Photo shows English poet Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930) who was poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13932

Call Number: LC-B2- 2796-7