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Long Distance Phone Cards..Money saver.
turbo
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Just a bit of info, hope it saves you money, it does for us.
This morning I recharged my ATT long distance credit phone card another 1,000 minutes at a cost of 3.4 cents per minute,
It took me almost exactly i year to use up the previous 1,000 hours.
Last June MCI, wound up with my long distance phone service, on a trial offer they gave me for 60 days, claiming they could save me money.
The first months bill was $64.00, twice what my wife and I were paying normally.
I cancelled the service and my wife purchased the ATT card.
If I could get one for my local phone service I would in an instant, I notice my local phone service bill amounts to about 12.00 per monthe , but when you add state and federal excise taxes it increases it to about 27-29.00 per month.
On TV they are always advertiseing 1-10-10 #'s they charge .05 cents perminute, this card is cheaper than that.
Another thing, my son, who lives way across town doesn't have a phone in his residence, he claims it cheaper to pay for his cell phone, which gives him 600 hours per month during the day, and 3,000 long distance and anytime evening/weekend minutes, and no additional charges for roaming, all for $39.50 per month.
This would be an even better deal if I spent all my time on the phone.
Anyhow there seems to be some good options out there.
"The great object is that every man.... everyone who is able may have a gun." Patrick Henry
This morning I recharged my ATT long distance credit phone card another 1,000 minutes at a cost of 3.4 cents per minute,
It took me almost exactly i year to use up the previous 1,000 hours.
Last June MCI, wound up with my long distance phone service, on a trial offer they gave me for 60 days, claiming they could save me money.
The first months bill was $64.00, twice what my wife and I were paying normally.
I cancelled the service and my wife purchased the ATT card.
If I could get one for my local phone service I would in an instant, I notice my local phone service bill amounts to about 12.00 per monthe , but when you add state and federal excise taxes it increases it to about 27-29.00 per month.
On TV they are always advertiseing 1-10-10 #'s they charge .05 cents perminute, this card is cheaper than that.
Another thing, my son, who lives way across town doesn't have a phone in his residence, he claims it cheaper to pay for his cell phone, which gives him 600 hours per month during the day, and 3,000 long distance and anytime evening/weekend minutes, and no additional charges for roaming, all for $39.50 per month.
This would be an even better deal if I spent all my time on the phone.
Anyhow there seems to be some good options out there.
"The great object is that every man.... everyone who is able may have a gun." Patrick Henry
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One thing, FWIW, I discovered w/ the AT&T cards is that I could call internationally from a US hotel room at the best rate AT&T offered for my home phone - roughly 5 to 10% of the nominal tariff.
Where others charge a
"monthly service fee" of up to 4.95, Marathon charges 2.95, only if
you make a long distance call. Their rates for Alabama are 9.5 out of state, and 9.0 instate. Also, they give 15% of the bill to the Pro Gun organization of your choice. If you don't make a LD call they don't
charge you the 2.95. For the last year or so, I have used the AT&T
phone cards from Sam's, 3.4 cents per minute. By using the card,
I don't pay the 2.95 LD carrier fee. I have argued with MCI and others about that several times. They just don't believe it. Also,
when I tell them what I do, they say they can still save me money.
I ask how, and when they explain it, I point out that it wont save
me money. They still try to get me to change. Though I haven't had
a call from one in a few months, maybe they have given up.
Don't send flowers when I die. Send money now, I can buy more ammo.
I took a trip to Oregon in July and took the card with me, the same rate of 3.4 cents per minute applied, from my hotel room.
Their is a free service that comes with the card, whereby if someone steals your phone code #, they will freeze or lock out any calls being chrged to the card, when the outgoing cal are made from a different # after the second call, but, one can simply call the customer servce 800# on the back of the card and reactivate the card by giving them the pin security # on the back of the card.
So it's quite convenient to carry it around in one's wallet.
They do charge a bit more when calling from a public telephone.
By the way SAMS CLUB sells these originally for $40.00, for the 1,000 minutes, but if you recharge by using your credit card, it's $34.00 for the same 1,000 mins.
Good luck
"The great object is that every man.... everyone who is able may have a gun." Patrick Henry
I dumped AT&T after 40 years with them. I would never do business with them again. I don't give a GD how much I have to pay.
I switched to IDT, long distance is .05 cents a minute 24-7 and in state is .08 cents. The beauty of it is they bill in 6 second increments. That adds a lot to the savings. They also give you a calling card and the rate on that is .10 cents also billed in 6 second increments.
If anyone has updated info, I would like to know.
National Rifle Association Endowment Member-Texas State Rifle Association Life member
I am paying $.039/minute instate, $.049 out-of state and have also used a very good flat-rate plan that varies between $.01 and $.07 per minute.
There is a useful "best-rate calculator" at http://www.ld.net/?options4u to give you choices.
For some of you, the best choice may be the flat-rate service I mentioned, found at http://www.onefeeld.com/16509601
Hope this helps.
Mark.
Recharge the cards by phone and no sales tax.
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