Old One2One PAYG "top up card" - valuable?

Tetsujin · 28 Dec 2010 at 11:58

Hi chaps and chapesses,

My dad has a very old One 2 One top up card for his pay as you go SIM, which two local newsagent owners have now told him is "worth a lot". Something to do with the contract from back then including some stuff which isn't in modern ones or something, I don't know.

Anyone any ideas why an ancient One2One top up card might be worth something?

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Dec 2010 at 12:04

OMG. One2One! My first providor lol. I don't see why it would be worth something...

V4NT0M · 28 Dec 2010 at 12:11

I can't think of anything that could make it valuable... Maybe It's grown some interesting mould?

Wicksta · 28 Dec 2010 at 13:29

Now I feel old, it was Mercury 1-2-1 when I worked there.

And no, it's not valuable as far as I know - some of the old contract SIMs were valuable, assuming the contract was still running - this was due to the free landline and 1-2-1 calls all evenings and weekends. Maybe he got confused with that.

Yas786 · 28 Dec 2010 at 14:20

Ahhh mercury one to one...my very first contract phone 15 yrs ago...geez that takes me back...still with them but they are now known as Tmobile as they were bought out yrs ago by the german arm of Tmobile if im not mistaken.

Hxc · 28 Dec 2010 at 14:22

One2One became T-Mobile, BT became O2, right?

WobblerJW · 28 Dec 2010 at 14:28

Hxc said:
One2One became T-Mobile, BT became O2, right?

yeah something like that thinkg the only one that hasn't changed is orange

Hatter The Mad · 28 Dec 2010 at 14:34

Hxc said:
One2One became T-Mobile, BT became O2, right?

Yes

Aod · 28 Dec 2010 at 14:55

WobblerJW said:
yeah something like that thinkg the only one that hasn't changed is orange

*cough*

Vodafone?

Yas786 · 28 Dec 2010 at 15:30

Aod said:
*cough*

Vodafone?

Yep Voda and Orange havent been bought out as of yet although Voda holds a stake in Verizon over in America and Orange recently took over Tmobile to an extent.

Wicksta · 28 Dec 2010 at 16:08

Hxc said:
One2One became T-Mobile, BT became O2, right?

Mercury 1-2-1 became One2One which became T-Mobile.

Cellnet became BT Cellnet which became O2. Soon to be Telefonica?

Wicksta · 28 Dec 2010 at 16:10

Aod said:
*cough*

Vodafone?

Used to be Racal Telecom.

bsoltan · 28 Dec 2010 at 16:16

Now a Genie one, that is what's valuable.

Tetsujin · 28 Dec 2010 at 22:37

Orange are now merged, of a sort, with T-Mobile, into Everything Everywhere... plus they're just the UK brand of some French giant, if I recall... but yeah, as a brand they've hung around for a while

Thanks for the replies guys, I reckon the free landline thing is most likely, Wicksta, and there's been some confusion with blokes talking about it dahn the pab lahk.

mame · 28 Dec 2010 at 22:41

I had a one2one mobile in 1997. I knew nothing about mobiles then. At the time they had 80% coverage

80% of the population that is so all the main cities almost had that covered. It was pretty bad

C64 · 29 Dec 2010 at 23:05

weren't certain arty bt phonecards valuable back then ?

Morba · 29 Dec 2010 at 23:29

WobblerJW said:
yeah something like that thinkg the only one that hasn't changed is orange

Hasn changed name but has had different owners.