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Judgement Day wrote: »Check eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=irish+phonecard&_sacat=See-All-Categories to see what prices identical ones are fetching? In general they don't appear particularly valuable as there were so many produced. The big interest in callcards seems to have passed and even up to date catalogues seem to have petered out years ago but I could be wrong.
Here's a relatively recent Irish phonecard website but it's still fairly quiet.
http://www.irishcallcards.net/
Thats my site . Its true that Callcards arn't really saught after these days, however I am aware there are more people who have just started out collecting again recently (like myself) so there is some interest in them, especially the private issue cards, trial cards and mint/sealed ones should fetch a few quid.
Ebay is probably your best guide for prices you may expect to get for cards (however a card that could go one week for €30 may go for <€10 the next) so I wouldn't rely on it too much. There are also people who put cards up at ridiculous prices which will never sell, or if they do its to an inexpierienced buyer.
you probably won't make much profit on regular mint ones either, I tend to suggest to people for the common mint wrapped ones you'll probably be looking at around:
10unit~€2
20unit~€3.50
50unit~€8
100unit~€16
~ indicating less or more.
This was the cards face value back in the pounds days, but you'd be lucky to get the euro equivelent for most. I've also noticed ebay has been flooded with many rare private issue cards lately, Eagle Star, Tia Maria pre '96, CAN, Four courts etc so that has made the general price those cards fetch considerably lower. Basically what you get for cards is what customer(s) are willing to pay on ebay, so it is a gamble on what you'll get.
Also there is no current catalogue with reccomended prices that i'm aware of, its mostly supply and demand that drives the price of them up. There are dealers out there but they'll only snatch up bargains, not risk investing huge sums.
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yoyo your bang on! mind you i still think i have a mary robinson one somewhere but i just pulled out the folder and i have a selaled 50unit card celebrating president clintons historic visit to ireland 1995
also i have a sealed 10 unit tia maria card...not sure why i would have kept this one sealed , must have been a fuss about it or something the square on it to read in the phone is in silver and not gold coloured like most cards ?
Yeah I think I've seen the Clinton one mint going for around 8/10 quid on ebay there not so long ago (can't remember), there was never a TE/Eircom Mary robinson callcard made, that's not to say there wasn't one made by another company, Esat, Swiftcall, Switchcom etc.
The 10 unit Tia Maria cards with the blue bar on top are all low private issue cards. Unfortunately the market has been flooding with mint Tia cards lately, so the value they fetch has considerably lowered, its gone from over a tenner to as low as a euro or 2 now. You can see the print run of all cards on my collectors site btw here in the gallery if it helps. I have most of the Telecom Eireann chip cards up there (excl some trials) and eircom issues. Btw some of the rarer Tia Maria cards came with the Gold gemplus chip, the other one ('94) I think from memory was a silver chip (Schlumberger).
My advice, keep for another while
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Yeah I think I've seen the Clinton one mint going for around 8/10 quid on ebay there not so long ago (can't remember), there was never a TE/Eircom Mary robinson callcard made, that's not to say there wasn't one made by another company, Esat, Swiftcall, Switchcom etc.
The 10 unit Tia Maria cards with the blue bar on top are all low private issue cards. Unfortunately the market has been flooding with mint Tia cards lately, so the value they fetch has considerably lowered, its gone from over a tenner to as low as a euro or 2 now. You can see the print run of all cards on my collectors site btw here in the gallery if it helps. I have most of the Telecom Eireann chip cards up there (excl some trials) and eircom issues. Btw some of the rarer Tia Maria cards came with the Gold gemplus chip, the other one ('94) I think from memory was a silver chip (Schlumberger).
My advice, keep for another while
Nick
thanks a million nick ahh i guess the kids can cash them in in another 20 yrs then ! 0 -
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Hi
Just wondering anybody know if a Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame call card still in the wraper is worth anything ?
Thanks
Not really being honest
. €1-3 delivered is about all its worth these days, even unused/wrapped. 200, 000 of them were made so are very common cards
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Not really being honest . €1-3 delivered is about all its worth these days, even unused/wrapped. 200, 000 of them were made so are very common cards
Nick
Oh really,thought it might have been rare enough,ha ! Have loads of them at home,any ones I should look out for,any that might be worth trying yo sell ?
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