For those with SAMS membership, GREAT PHONE CARD!

[fragarific]

SAMS club sells phonecards that never expire. They have a fee for payphone usage but almost all cards have that now.

It's 5.9c/min. They have them in 350 min and 1000min cards. And its from AT&T so you know they wont go out of business.

 

[jblondi]

Great phone cards. I have had one for 3 years now. Its easy to call and add more minutes with a credit card as well. No hidden charges, or any crap like that. Good find. Ive been spreading the word since I found mine.

 

[fragarific]

jblondi, what was the price per minute 3 years ago?

 

[PG]

Those are a great deal. My wife bought a 350 minute one a while ago. It really helps our phone bill.

PG

 

[gwbaker]

Yeah, they ARE a good deal... A bit of advise tho.. If you are like me and don't make a lot of long distance calls, buy the smallest incrament they have. I bought a 350 card late last year at the great price of $.09 min (back then) and I am still using it.

Beats the heck out of trying to figure out all these telco funky $.05 a min nights and weekends on jewish holidays while standing on your head deals.

 

How much are the cards priced at?
350 and 1000?

 

[MrBond]

My local sams has them in even more incriments that that. They are much better then those "$.02 a minute" that tack on a 40 minute "connecting fee." Used one of those to call home one night, talked to the answering machine for about a minute, and hung up. When I used the card again, 200 minutes were left out of my 241 original. The Sams clubs are a MUCH better deal. Don't be fooled by the apparent "lower" per min charge on the other ones.

 

[stingygrrl]

My 350 min card was about $20 or 22- I bought it a while back. I had no idea it was a hot deal. And here I am crying that I miss out on all the deals being out here in the stix...

 

[jblondi]

Fragerific, The minutes used to cost around 12 cents per. The more you buy now the cheaper they are. I even think you can buy less, like 400 and still get a very low rate of around 6 cents.

 

[Mihir]

Another pre-paid phone card which deserves a mention is Bigzoo.com
I have using Bigzoo since about a year now. You need a few tries to get through to their 1-800# in the evenings, but it is 3.9 cents a minute and the voice quality is perfect. The billing is online, and you get a list of phone numbers you dialed and the time you dialled them for and also which number you dialled from! (thats a feature I like). The billing system is transparent and there are no connection fees et al.
They have a special account for 75 cents a month with local #s at 3.6 cents per minute and a couple of more 1-800#s. I would say it still is worth it with the 75 cents a month charge.
Net2phone has a phone calling card which is also 3.9 cents a minute but I haven't tried it yet.It has no connection fee either.

Mihir

 

[ken_unit]

This is not a good deal compared to www.bigzoo.com - less than 4 cents a minute. I've used them for a long time, and you have use their web page to see a complete log of phone calls. The SAMS card or other traditional cards don't do that either.
The new service from bigzoo has a 1888 access number that is never busy.

 

[lex]

COSTCO BEATS SAMS CLUB!!

Go to COSTCO and get a phone card (sprint) for $19.99 for about 470 minutes, I believe.. thats about .042 cents per minute according to the sign at costco. My friend who was visiting bought one the other day..