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Welcome to our Inventory Clearance Sale. The more you buy, the more you save. View our web site ( http://www.ipce.com ) to see the entire list or to view cards by theme (Coca-Cola, Disney, Sports, etc.)
Cards listed are available now, and as cards sell out, they will be removed from the list. Sale ends February 28, 1999.
Here is the discount schedule:
For easy ordering, use the order form at our web site ( http://www.ipce.com ). We will calculate the discount from list prices for you. U.S.A. shipping is $3 for orders up to $100; $6 for orders greater than $100. Overseas shipping is $6 for Western Europe and Canada and $8 for most Pacific Rim countries.
Roger Streit
International Phone Card Exchange
272 North Mountain Avenue
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
74243.1522@compuserve.com
Fax: 973 744-3013
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Perillo Indian Classic PhoneCard (set of three)
Gregory Perillo has long been regarded as one of foremost artists of Native Americans. In 1993 Perillo began to paint a group of his Indians for a series of PhoneCards produced by Powell Associates and issued by AmeriVox World Telecom Group. Six sets of 3 cards were produced (18 total) most of them now sold out and scarce. The cards in vivid colors picture different Indian Chiefs and scenes of Indian Life. The reverse has a small
descriptive paragraph. All cards are in unused gem condition with expired telephone time.
We offer Card Nos. 10, 11 and 12 for $10.00 for the set of three cards plus $1.00 to cover shipping and insurance.(Catalog valuation for this set is $30.00)
These and many other rare and interesting telephone cards are available from our extensive inventory by mail order (send for free catalog). Powell Associates has been in business and dealing in Collectible PhoneCards since 1992. We recently moved our offices from Manhattan to Morganville, New Jersey. All major credit cards are accepted.
Powell Associates
P.O. Box 38
Morganville NJ 07751
Tel 732-332-9093 Fax 732-332-9094 Email - luisvigdor@compuserve.com Internet - http://www.powellpm.com
The fun part of topical collecting is that it is quite a challenge. As far as I know, there is no authoritative Route 66 phonecard checklist, that is a project I will undertake. While I am just beginning this project, there are many out there that have advanced collections and checklists. What I would like to do in future issues of POL is highlight those collections and collectors. I will also begin a checklist archive on the POL web site [ http://www.cardmall.com/pol ] where collectors can post and update their checklists.
Finally, to encourage people to contribute to this column, I am going to offer a Topical Collection Contest for newsletter readers. It doesnt matter if you only contribute a few sentences about an area that you collect or plan to collect, or if you include a checklist of what is available, you are eligible for the contest. Simply e-mail (alan@cardmall.com), fax (310) 734-1529 or mail your entry to: The Card Mall 1042 N. Mountain Ave. Suite B-339 Upland, CA 91786. (e-mail entries are preferred). Be sure to state if you do not want your name and e-mail address used. I will assume you dont mind unless you say so. The winner of this contest (which will be randomly chosen) will win an assortment of phonecards that have a catalog value of $200. Entries must be received on or before February 27, 1999. Please contact me with any questions.
Counterfeit items are harmful in any hobby, and phonecard counterfeits are no exception. There are two types of counterfeits. The first are fakes of very expensive items. An example in another hobby might be a Michael Jordan rookie card, valued at about $1000. These crooks find expensive items to try and duplicate, hoping to find a buyer and make a lot of money off a few purchases. The other type of counterfeit item is the inexpensive item, often something that never existed. Again comparing to sportscards, these were rampant in the early 1990s with something called Broder cards. They sold for $1 or $2 each, and were done with popular players. The problem with this type of item, and the counterfeit coke cards is twofold. First, money that would be spent for legitimate items is being diverted to non-legitimate items. Second, in the long term, these counterfeit items will not hold any value, unless the purchaser is dishonest with a potential buyer. My recommendation would be to not purchase these cards. Lets hope that this problem does not become widespread in the phonecard hobby.
HACKENSACK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1999--IDT Corporation (NASDAQ:IDTC - news) today launched a new pre-paid phone card specifically designed for the international marketplace. The product, called Debitalk, is the Company's first pre-paid callback phone card.
Debitalk allows people around the world to bypass the high costs of placing international calls from countries outside of the U.S. Callback gives the caller the ability to make the international call as if he/she was calling from the U.S.; thus the lower rates apply.
As a leader in pre-paid calling card distribution, IDT currently markets 30 different cards designed to meet the needs and requirements of various ethnic communities and different geographic locales in the U.S. IDT has combined its experience in the domestic pre-paid calling card market and its vanguard position in the callback industry to rapidly penetrate and expand the international segment of the pre-paid calling card sector.
``We are excited to provide our agents and resellers with the services they need to place low cost phone calls conveniently from anywhere in the world,'' said Ami Reschke, Director of International Business Development for IDT Callback. ``IDT offers consumers unique flexibility now that we have integrated our callback technology with our pre-paid debit platform to create a hybrid calling card product.''
Debitalk allows users to place phone calls from anywhere in the world using a touch-tone telephone with a pre-programmed callback number. Users dial their access (trigger) number, let it ring once, hang up, wait for the ring back, listen to their real-time account balance, and dial their destination number. No credit cards, invoices, or bad debt are associated with Debitalk since everything is pre-paid.
The value-added prepaid card will offer members of TWA's Aviators program comprehensive domestic long distance service, plus the benefit of bonus miles credited directly to their Aviators portfolio.
To take advantage of this terrific offer, Aviators program members just have to call 1-800-PRE-PAID to instantly activate their card. Each $50 card carries 170 minutes of high quality Sprint calling time along with 500 Aviators miles. That's 10 miles to the dollar -- the richest mileage award available with long distance service. The program launches February 1, 1999.
``We're offering today's Aviators another way to build equity in our program,'' said Beth Mack, TWA's Vice President of Marketing and Services. ``The Prepaid Aviators Phone Card lets business travelers check voicemail and earn miles at the same time.''
``We're extremely excited to be working with TWA in offering this value-added program,'' says CSI's Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Tom Byrnes. ``We plan to make these convenient and easy-to-use cards accessible to all customers flying with TWA in 1999.''
The introduction of the Aviators prepaid card also signals CSI's new alliance with Sprint. ``Our two companies have been working together for the past year and we anticipate that the launch of this program is just the beginning of a long and very successful relationship,'' adds Doug Fieldhouse, CSI's President and CEO.
GEMENOS, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1999-- Gemplus(R), the world's leading provider of smart-card based solutions, announced today that Microsoft Corp. has certified Gemplus smart card readers for usage with Windows 98 and Windows NT. Both the Gemplus GPR400 for laptops, and the GCR410p for desktops, have received certification from Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) as compliant with the PC Smart Card (PC/SC) specifications. ``Gemplus is now able to provide customers with assurance that its products conform to industry standards that resolve compatibility issues and allow for quicker implementation of smart card technology,'' said Alexandre Lorenzi, Director, Gemplus Reader Technology. ``This certification signals the convergence of the PC and smart card industries that will bring smart cards into the mainstream of IT technology and enable a new era of trust and convenience in electronic commerce and enterprise network security.''
As a result of the certification, Gemplus will add the ``Designed for Microsoft Windows 98 and Windows NT'' logo to its products. The Gemplus GPR400 is a PC Card/(PCMCIA) type II smart card reader and the Gemplus GCR410p is a desktop serial port smart card reader.
``Gemplus has taken great strides to ensure that smart cards are an extension of the PC environment,'' said Mike Dusche, director of Smart Card Marketing for Microsoft. ``The certification of Gemplus products for Windows 98 and Windows NT demonstrates that the industry is rapidly moving to standardized solutions that will enable banking organizations, IT departments and Internet service providers to provide secure access to online resources.''
Gemplus last October endorsed Microsoft's announcement of Smart Cards for Windows, a standards-based platform that provides secure storage for security, loyalty and ePurse solutions in the Microsoft Windows operating system. The Microsoft initiative extends to smart card developers the benefits of the PC software development model, including a common run-time environment, a language-neutral development environment and familiar tools such as the Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C++ development systems, to smart card developers.
Smart Cards for Windows extends Microsoft's ongoing strategy to enable smart card deployment. This strategy includes the PC Smart Card initiative, which facilitates network authentication on logon with the Windows NT2000, as well as logo and certification programs for manufacturers of smart card readers.
``Microsoft's expertise in operating systems and development tools will advance mainstream deployment of smart card technology,'' said Michel Roux, Vice President, Strategic Alliances. ``Gemplus is committed to continuing its leadership as the number one provider of smart card technology by delivering worldwide standardized smart card readers that will leverage Microsoft's track record of providing solutions to industry and corporate applications developers.''
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T and Excite, Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT - news) are giving online chatters 10 free minutes of phone conversations this weekend as part of their ``Heart-to-Heart'' promotion for Valentine's Day. Anyone in an Excite chat room can transform their black-and-white keyboard conversation into a confidential ``heart-to-heart'' talk using AT&T Chat 'N Talk.
Excite (http://www.excite.com) hosts hundreds of chats on subjects ranging from relationships to politics, sports, books, music, pets, TV, travel and more. Any consumer can now conduct an anonymous phone conversation with another without revealing either parties' phone number using AT&T Chat 'N Talk.r During the ``Heart-to-Heart'' promotion, the first ten minutes of each AT&T Chat 'N Talk call are free from 12:01 a.m. on Friday, February 12, 1999 through midnight Monday, February 15, 1999. Subsequent minutes are 10 cents per minute per person, a discount of 5 cents per minute off the 15 cents per minute promotional price.
AT&T Chat 'N Talk combines the instant give-and-take of live conversation with the privacy of a chat room.
``Valentine's Day is about connecting and communicating with people,'' said Joe Kraus, co-founder and senior vice president, Excite, Inc. ``This unique promotion lets Excite's 16 million monthly users do just that.''
How it Works
An Internet user can initiate an AT&T Chat 'N Talk session in Excite Chat by clicking on the phone icon. Then you send a private message asking another chatter if he or she wants to accept a voice-chat. If the inquiry is accepted, the participant will be asked to enter in their phone number. All participants' phone numbers are kept confidential.
After entering the number, the participant's phone will ring (this service requires one telephone line separate from the Internet connection). The initiator of the AT&T Chat 'N Talk session -- who has gone through a similar process -- will be on the line.
The host can initiate this process with parties in the continental U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii. The person who initiates the AT&T Chat 'N Talk session pays all charges on his/her credit card.
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Alan
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