Where can you buy Eircom callcards ?

Iomib

I wanted to use the payphone yesterday so i went to a few shops wanting to buy an eircom callcard( the bank card style ones that you stick into the payphone) i went to 7 or 8 shops and most of them had no idea what i was taking about, One girl printed me Emobile credit and asked is this what i want. Then i want to the post office and they offered me some international phonecalls voucher, Where are the real eircom payphone callcards?

Temptamperu

The early 90s i think

phasers

What's a payphone? is that what old people call mobiles?

Sonics2k

My Time Machine worked!!

yoyo

Used to collect these back in the day Mobile phones killed the phonecards , even coin phones are being removed as there not used much anymore, I'm fairly sure eircom stopped making Callcards a few years back! May be wrong but not seen them in ages!

Nick

Cathaoirleach

Telecom Éireann called - they want their callcards back

veryangryman

They were trendy enough things in their time. Youd always see a queue of students in the telephone box around the corner with card in hand (and pot in other hand)

Dionysus

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

Telecom Éireann called - they want their callcards back

hehe. I threw out about twenty of these in a big clear out in the past six months.

Mint Sauce

Do they even have the card phones anymore?

Mike 1972

I have a Netherlands callcard in my wallet.

I was over there earlier this year and they still sell them in shops and have lots of phones which take them (theyll take credit cards too but theres an insane surcharge)

Dose Krayzee Dutch ?

Alan murphy

I have a £2 ten unit unopened barrys tea call card from around 1999/2000 if you want it.

delta_bravo

Alan murphy wrote: »

I have a £2 ten unit unopened barrys tea call card from around 1999/2000 if you want it.

This man registered just to offer you a callcard. Now thats a hero. Well done Alan.

ShooterSF

Ah I remember many a days putting used ones in the freezer as it was supposed to trick credit on it. Simpler times.

January

Dionysus wrote: »

hehe. I threw out about twenty of these in a big clear out in the past six months.

You could have sold them... some of them are collector's items now!

The Scientician

veryangryman wrote: »

They were trendy enough things in their time. Youd always see a queue of students in the telephone box around the corner with card in hand (and pot in other hand)

teapot?

The Scientician

ShooterSF wrote: »

Ah I remember many a days putting used ones in the freezer as it was supposed to trick credit on it. Simpler times.

I thought you were meant to put nail varnish on it too.

volvoman480

January wrote: »

You could have sold them... some of them are collector's items now!

No sh1t!!!! Bugger, I had literally hundreds of them.. My girlfriend at the time (now the mrs) was doing her nursing course in London in the late 90's. I had a stack of those cards with me for calling her as my parents were broke from paying the phone bill. I also had a load of the ones you could call from a mobile with, you know the ones where you key in the code and then dial the number. Had some strange designs in them, had a few shaped as a pint of guinness, a couple more as cans of coke I think.

Oh yeah, as I'm at it I could tell a quite funny story about the night I parked outside Dromcollogher after collecting a load in Castlemahon and the bus load of drunks, but it's Sunday night, I'm tired and I couldn't be arsed......

Albert X

when was the last callcard produced ?

holystungun9

Albert X wrote: »

when was the last callcard produced ?

When will this thread be more relevant? 2011, perhaps? 1995? I choose option C: Never again and not even to begin with. Night night folks.

MadsL

January wrote: »

You could have sold them... some of them are collector's items now!

You would think. But really not so much.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&_nkw=telecom+eireann

One joker there thinking his collection is worth $500

becost

Try Roches Stores or Quinnsworth

Adyx

I had a collection one time. Sold part of it for £80 (yes pounds, it was that long ago). I think the majority of the ones I sold were still sealed though.

Penn

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