When people hear about a "free calling card" they tend to think that's a scam.
Yes, you do need to be careful about such offers.
If you prefer to keep paying your phone calls, stop reading; but if you want to know how you can indeed benefit from such calling card offers, let me explain to you how they work.
Some companies use free calling cards as a tool to get you to try out their service and they are completely confident that their service is so good and you will like it, that they are convinced that you will continue with their service and recharge the card once your minutes run out.
One company offered a $1 trial with the equivalent of $5 on the card, about 300 minutes (5 hours) of calling tome to a land line.
Another one offered a $1 card that you use to make one phone call and talk as long as you want to on that one phone call.
Other companies give you $10-$15 dollar trial cards.
There are also ways to get free minutes.
I have seen a company that gives you $50 worth of minutes when you buy a $40 card.
You can also sign up as an affiliate and refer people and get free minutes, on top of the affiliate commission.
You could even get 10% of the money they spend each time they recharge.
Additionally, you can earn points each time you buy minutes and these points can be transferred into additional minutes.
They could also send you a free $20 recharge link when your birthday comes.
Let's say the rate in the United States: 1.
5 cents/min, which is already a lot cheaper than your regular line.
You get this by dialing an 800 number from your phone.
If you use an area-specific local number instead, you can get even lower rates, e.
g.
saving another 1 cent per minute.
Now imagine that a phone card, on top of all this, would have low rates, NO monthly fees, NO connection fee, can be used outside the U.
S.
, your relatives can also call you using your account, in fact you can use it in any other country with the provided toll free or local access numbers, and the card expires 2 years after the last time you used it.
The above is quite different from what you are used to, e.
g.
the calling cards that say you can use them for 120 minutes, and after one unsuccessful dialing half of your minutes are gone, and then a 1-minute call to a cell phone sucks away all the rest of the units you have left.