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Wycombe Phonecards We first started trading in 1966 as a stamp approval business under the name Bucks Philatelics. This was run in conjunction with a 'bricks and mortar' shop in High Wycombe called 'Wycombe Stamp Centre'. Due to a combination of huge business rate and rent increases combined with a fire which destroyed much of the stock the retail business was forced to close its doors. The approval business continued for a little longer until I moved to Kuwait to run an import/export company in a place called Fahaheel. Due to my contacts in the Philatelic Trade I was soon running a large New Issue service that supplied most of the major wholesale stamp dealers with Kuwaiti material. This was due mostly to the inefficiency and poor customer services of the Philatelic Bureau in Kuwait city at that time. At the same time I was supplying banknotes and coins to dealers as well. In 1986 Kuwait started issuing Telephone cards and this became the mainstay of the business up to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It was not unusual to sell wholesale lots of 100,000 cards at a time to the major dealers in Europe. The invasion brought this to an end and I spent several months as a 'guest' (hostage) of Saddam Hussain's evil regime in various military camps and prisons in Iraq. Apon my release I returned to the UK totally destitute and resumed teaching in the London Borough of Wandsworth as a supply teacher where I had to hitch hike daily to from the emergency housing we lived in in Lane End near High Wycombe. An absolute nightmare until I had enough money to get a cheap motor cycle to make the daily commute. This lasted until the Liberation of Kuwait when my sponsor obtained a visa for me and I travelled back via Saudi Arabia to a devastated Kuwait. My main job was to travel daily to Dammam in Saudi Arabia with a fleet of trucks to purchase supplies for workers that were putting out the oil fires and rebuilding Kuwait. Most of these were living on hotel ships in places like Shuaiba Harbour as most of the housing was in ruins. When Kuwait resumed issuing postage stamps etc. I restarted supplying my old customers. But the regime in Kuwait had changed so it became very difficult to operate as before as corruption made it difficult to get the necessary permits to ship the items that I was selling. The 'Backsheesh' or backhanders became exhorbitant so I had to stop supplying my customers especially as cetains cliques in the Philatelic Bureau made it almost impossible to get my regular supplies. Veiled threats and intimidation to supply the details of my customers decided it was time to leave so I returned to the UK in 1997. Om my return 'Wycombe Phonecards' traded in a very small way on the Phonecard fair circuit as the market had turned downwards after the demise of the two major magazines published at that time. This was due to heavy over speculation in these items and the production of thousands of different fake cards which rocked the faith of many of the die hard collectors who simply stopped collecting - this was combined with the production of very over priced 'special' issues for every subject under the sun. The average collector could not afford to keep up with this plethora of overpriced issues and stopped. The market has since stabilised and prices are far more sensible. Wycombe Phonecards is now a subsidiary of Stanikowski Ltd and trading mostly on Ebay and through our own web site at: http://www.wycombephonecards.com We buy, sell and exchange telephonecards for collectors as well as selling UNC banknotes and coins. From my time in Kuwait I still have a residue of Philatelic material which is placed in auction on Ebay when it comes to light. Contact Details:- Wycombe Phonecards, 2 Wellesbourne Gardens, High Wycombe, HP13 5QR, UK. Email - wycombecards@which.net Phone: 01494 441112 Favourite Links Wycombe Phonecards Listings To protect bidder privacy, when the price or highest bid on an item reaches or exceeds a certain level, User IDs will be displayed as anonymous names. For auction items, a bold price means at least one bid has been received. Note: Anonymous names may appear more than once and may represent different bidders. Wycombe Phonecards Item Start End Price Title High Bidder / Status 390112421246 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:04:44 £1.00 BENIN - 2 Different Remote Phonecards Available 390112421329 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:04:56 £1.00 BULGARIA - 8 Different Chip Phonecards 4 Available 390112421434 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:05:06 £1.00 BURKINA FASO - 3 Different Remote Phonecards Available 390112421575 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:05:29 £1.00 CAMEROON - 3 Different Remote Phonecards 2 Available 390112421635 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:05:39 £1.00 CAMEROON - 3 Different Remote Phonecards 3 Available 390112421720 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:05:50 £1.00 CAMEROON - 3 Different Remote Phonecards 4 Available 390112421902 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:06:12 £1.00 CHILE - 2 Different Chip Phonecards 2 Available 390112422069 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:06:31 £4.00 CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE) - Mint/Unused SIM Phonecard/FIFA Available 390112422245 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:06:48 £1.50 COOK ISLANDS - Magnetic Phonecard/Garland $20 Available 390112422546 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:07:31 £1.50 DOMINICA - Chip Phonecard/Water Carriers Available 390112422643 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:07:41 £1.50 DOMINICA - Magnetic Phonecard/Be Alert Drugs Hurt Available 390112422719 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:07:51 £1.50 DOMINICA - Magnetic Phonecard/Ginger Lilies Available 390112423000 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:08:20 £1.00 GHANA - 4 Different Remote Phonecards 1 Available 390112423240 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:08:54 £1.00 GHANA - 4 Different Remote Phonecards 4 Available 390112424090 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:10:31 £1.00 KUWAIT - 4 Different Remote Phonecards 2 Available 390112424189 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:10:41 £1.00 LAOS - 2 Different Remote Phonecards 1 Available 390112424283 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:10:52 £1.00 LAOS - 2 Different Remote Phonecards 10 Available 390112424344 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:11:02 £1.00 LAOS - 2 Different Remote Phonecards 11 Available 390112424809 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:12:17 £1.00 LAOS - 2 Different Remote Phonecards 8 Available 390112424908 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:12:30 £1.00 LAOS - 2 Different Remote Phonecards 9 Available 390112425023 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:12:40 £1.00 LITHUANIA - 8 Different Chip Phonecards 1 Available 390112425127 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:12:50 £1.00 LITHUANIA - 8 Different Chip Phonecards 2 Available 390112425403 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:13:21 £1.00 NAMIBIA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards Available 390112425549 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:13:51 £1.00 PORTUGAL - 4 Different Chip Phonecards 1 Available 390112425635 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:14:01 £1.00 PORTUGAL - 4 Different Chip Phonecards 2 Available 390112425729 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:14:13 £1.00 PORTUGAL - 4 Different Chip Phonecards 3 Available 390112425849 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:14:25 £1.00 QATAR - 3 Different Autelca/Magnetic Phonecards 1 Available 390112425921 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:14:37 £1.00 QATAR - 3 Different Autelca/Magnetic Phonecards 10 Available 390112426069 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:14:59 £1.00 QATAR - 3 Different Autelca/Magnetic Phonecards 3 Available 390112426193 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:15:21 £1.00 QATAR - 3 Different Autelca/Magnetic Phonecards 5 Available 390112426289 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:15:45 £1.00 QATAR - 3 Different Autelca/Magnetic Phonecards 7 Available 390112426384 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:16:07 £1.00 RUSSIA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 2 Available 390112426539 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:16:38 £1.00 RUSSIA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 5 Available 390112426681 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:16:58 £2.50 SEYCHELLES - Chip Phonecard/Black Parrot Available 390112426890 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:17:39 £1.00 SOUTH AFRICA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 1 Available 390112426957 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:17:51 £1.00 SOUTH AFRICA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 10 Available 390112427064 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:18:10 £1.00 SOUTH AFRICA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 12 Available 390112427139 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:18:21 £1.00 SOUTH AFRICA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 13 Available 390112427180 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:18:31 £1.00 SOUTH AFRICA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 14 Available 390112427277 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:18:53 £1.00 SOUTH AFRICA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 3 Available 390112427354 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:19:04 £1.00 SOUTH AFRICA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 4 Available 390112427404 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:19:15 £1.00 SOUTH AFRICA - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 5 Available 390112427989 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:20:32 £1.00 SOUTH KOREA - 4 Different Magnetic Phonecards 4 Available 390112428305 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:21:15 £1.00 SPAIN - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 2 Available 390112428385 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:21:27 £1.00 SPAIN - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 3 Available 390112428464 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:21:38 £1.00 SPAIN - 3 Different Chip Phonecards 4 Available 390112428923 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:22:59 £1.00 TAIWAN - 3 Different Optical Phonecards 27 Available 390112429018 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:23:10 £1.00 TAIWAN - 3 Different Optical Phonecards 29 Available 390112429115 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:23:20 £1.00 TAIWAN - 3 Different Optical Phonecards 31 Available 390112429204 30-Oct-09 29-Nov-09 16:23:32 £1.00 TAIWAN - 3 Different Optical Phonecards 32 Available Go see all current items for sale by this member. 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