posted on April 26, 2005 06:53:08 AM new
I think they collect them for the design on the back but since there are no pictures on that auction it is hard to tell. It's like the plastic keys you get at Motels. I guess they are collectible also.
posted on April 26, 2005 07:36:57 AM new
I guess I'm more suspicious about this kind of auction. Isn't there a reason we all cut up our credit cards when they're out of date? Couldn't old credit cards be used in some illegal way by someone out there? If not, why are we encouraged to destroy our old cards?
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posted on April 26, 2005 07:38:35 AM new
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posted on April 26, 2005 08:17:30 AM new
RS, thats what I was thinking. Like Illegals using them for ID or something?? You know now they ask for two forms of ID and they accept a CC as one? Some places here they do anyway.
But I wish I hadda known. I had a slew of them... I'd sell them for 40 bucks! lol.
Libra, yeah, I guess that is what it is. I know some banking advertising is collectable. I sold one of those little plastic squeezie coin purses with bank advertising on it one time. I couldnt believe somebody would actually pay me to ship this stupid little thing to them
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posted on April 26, 2005 09:52:22 AM new
In order to use a credit card for a form of ID it must be a valid card. The most recent of these cards has been expired for two years, most for 10 years or more. Since the card cannot be charged and does not include a billing address or social security number what type of fraud do you think anyone could perpetrate with one?
Many companies gift cards are now quite collectible (see Starbucks and Target) for their art. Personally I don't remember the Bank AmeriCard having a memorable design but I may be wrong.
As for illegals using a card for as ID, They can buy a debit MasterCard at most 7-11 and drug stores for $9.95 and it's actually valid
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on April 26, 2005 09:57:02 AM new
Yes, fenix, but some people keep their same account for 10 years or more. The only thing that changes is the 3-digit security code on the back of the card as it renews.
They can make knock-off designer pocketbooks and your telling me there's nothing insecure about old credit cards in the wrong hands? ha!
posted on April 26, 2005 10:39:10 AM new
People do collect credit cards actually. I know of one dealer in the field, though it is small. I think it would be tougher these days because of identity theft, which didn't really exist a generation ago. It's a tough thing to collect (I don't collect, though I have dealt in other plastic collectibles like gift cards and phone cards) - Most people do cut up their cards these days.
posted on April 26, 2005 11:50:47 AM new
::They can make knock-off designer pocketbooks and your telling me there's nothing insecure about old credit cards in the wrong hands? ha!::
Bears sh*t in the woods and my old Buick had a transmission leak.... What in the world do those two things have in common?
Could you please explain in detail how you have managed to correlate a fake Vuitton Speedy and a credit card that has been expired for ten years?
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on April 26, 2005 12:07:36 PM newToday Ballard enthusiastically describes the aesthetics of credit cards, the "trading frenzy" at his group's annual meetings and the search for the collectors' Holy Grail: the 1950 Diners Club issue that marked the start of the modern credit card era.
"Nobody's seen one," he said. "I know a guy who will pay $2,500 for it and $100 just for information leading to one."
"If you fill yer Buick transmission with bear-poo, it will no longer leak..."
"I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the Mother in me."Guess Who? Washington D.C., April 14, 2005
posted on April 26, 2005 12:42:49 PM new
The "correlation" fenix dear is the level of counterfiting that goes on now. Dont gimme this, what in the world crap like you cant figure that out. And I will repeat for you some people keep their same account for 10 years or more. The only thing that changes is the 3-digit security code on the back of the card as it renews. My father had the same one for 15 years or so. Never used it, just had it there for emergency or so he liked to say.
btw, when you buy one of those 7-11 cards, you have to have an SS to register it.
posted on April 26, 2005 01:42:19 PM new
Stop-and-Rob? That's funny!
Yes, my husband and I are really boring people who keep our credit card numbers for years and years; one just changed last year for the first time in ages. Only the code on the back changes for our two main cards.
What I know is that, if I were to ask my neighbors to give me their old expired credit cards so I could sell them on eBay, I'd get a lot of turn-downs.
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posted on April 26, 2005 02:17:01 PM new
I just sold a batch of Gasoline credit cards. Some of them are hot items depending on which oil companies they are. They were all expired long ago.
posted on April 26, 2005 03:15:16 PM new
It's better to be on the safe side and keep your old credit cards. Never can tell when you might run across a good deal on a time machine. If you go back to the 50's, a Bankamericard, Diner's Club or Flying A gasoline card, or a Carte Blanche would be handy to have with you.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 26, 2005 03:35:05 PM new
On the subject of the plastic cards used by hotels & motels, NEVER TURN them back in!! My sweetie found out the hard way. They code your credit card number on the magnetic strip. She & another lady were attendin a national convention in Chicago. They both turned their cards in. Two weeks later they both got phone calls that someone had tried to buy plane ticket to Japan using the card numbers.
posted on April 26, 2005 04:22:14 PM new
Never ever sell your old credit cards. This is a big DUH moment! Counterfeiters actually make up new cards from those old cards. All they have to do is play around with the numbers to come up with a valid card. Those new valid cards can be used for online sales, gas purchases, etc. ANYTHING that doesn't require a signature. My computer was hacked some years ago by a professional ring. They made up new cards and within a one hour period, thousands were charged in gas sales from all over Florida. If they can make up that many cards that fast, just think what they can do with an expired card!
posted on April 26, 2005 04:26:24 PM new
Dbl...If I had a time machine that could take me back to the 50's, I'd take a couple hundred bucks and stock up on Bauer, Fiesta, Vernon and a few others and bring it back and make enough to fill up a bank vault
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 26, 2005 04:40:12 PM new
sparkz What was that movie about a fireman that goes back in time or forward in time, talking to somebody through a CB Radio? I forget....But I remember the one line when the guy said: "stocks, yahoo...remember it."
posted on April 26, 2005 05:40:58 PM new
I can't remember the name of the movie, but I watched it. As well as I recall, a ham radio operator was able to talk to his deceased father who had also been a ham. At the end of the movie, there was a scene where the son had a car with a personalized plate that read "Yahoo".
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 26, 2005 05:50:54 PM new
Bauer, Fiesta, Vernon. . . . Sparkz, if you'd thrown in Homer Laughlin, you would have hit my top four favorites. Especially Bauer! We inherited a family cabin with original 1930s Bauer plates and cups, all the colors, and those plates were used from the 30s until 6 years ago. I have 12 Bauer plates on plate hangers near the ceiling of our cabin dining area now. I loooove those old colors.
On a Bauer site I used to go into, a gal in Northern California wrote that her father worked for Bauer! She said she and her sister had one of everything (almost) that Bauer had ever produced--bird baths, dishes, serving pieces, those huge and gorgeous vases, you name it. And, get this, she and her sister hated the dishes and got rid of them. Now this gal would give her right arm to have it all back; older and wiser. She's trying to buy as much as she can now, and there's the factor of "new" Bauer showing its ugly head to complicate matters.
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posted on April 26, 2005 07:42:58 PM new
Roadsmith...I sort of included cousin Homer when I mentioned Fiesta. I've sold a lot of HLC, but mostly at Oakhurst and not online. What I would like to get my hands on is one of their "secret" pieces. It's been well verified that each year Homer Laughlin will create a new shape or pattern, make 6 pieces, and break the molds. The first four pieces will go to the top executives at the HLC, the fifth will go into a vault at the pottery and the sixth will be sold at an invitation only auction for the big time HLC collectors. The proceeds from the auction (which are very substantional) will be donated to the local high school in their city to support one of their programs. I believe it's the athletic program, but it could be something else. Yes, there are a few HLC patterns out there that are not listed in any books. But don't hold your breath waiting for one to come up for sale anytime soon.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 26, 2005 09:03:25 PM new
Holy cow, Sparkz. That just makes me sick, to think of rare patterns we can't ever get our hands on, or even see! Yikes.
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posted on April 26, 2005 09:22:27 PM new
There's no end to the discoveries that come up in the pottery and china category. One Ebayer, who happens to be a specialist in Vernon Kilns pottery acquired a punchbowl and cups in the Rafia pattern. Problem is, Vernon never made a single punch set in their entire existence. Seems like an employee was getting married and neeed a punch set for his reception. Instead of buying one, he and some co-workers manufactured one after work one day. It's the only one in existance. Those are the kind of finds that make yard sales fun
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
