Comments on: Who you gonna call?

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:34:34 +0000

Welcome Debra, and thanks for commenting! I’m not familiar with EScript, but I’ll look into it. The only one I’ve used is a grocery card from Albertsons that gives a percentage to the youth orchestra. It would be great to be able to designate to others.

That’s great to know, A. I’m going to look into WA.

By: Ahistoricality

Ahistoricality — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:47:31 +0000

The WA long distance is fine. It’s probably a bit more expensive than the most aggressive deals we could get elsewhere, but the national and international plans are reasonably competitive; enough so that we stopped using the cheapo bulk calling card we’d been using for some of our long distance. They use Sprint cables, so the actual quality of use is pretty much what you get anywhere else.

And it’s kinda fun filling out the “vote for which charities get the money” every year.

By: Debra

Debra — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:56:58 +0000

The only “give when you play” program I use is EScript, which pays a portion of all my credit card purchases to the local charities that I designate. I get a report each year of what was given (plus some of the items I buy at the grocery store automatically pay a portion into it too. Like Silk soy products).

I wonder about the cellphone service…

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:47:51 +0000

Have you been happy with their long distance, A? I’m thinking of looking into this. I do all my long distance on my cell these days.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:45:49 +0000

I’d heard that Target did that, CG, but I don’t have a card with them. During the “back to school” shopping season, Office Depot lets me designate a school to receive a small percentage. This was the first I’ve seen with cell phones, though.

By: Ahistoricality

Ahistoricality — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:44:18 +0000

I didn’t know WA did wireless… odd, really. We’ve been on WA Long Distance for years, so you’d think they’d have pitched it to us.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:17:06 +0000

I have a smidgen of my Target Visa purchases allocated to the private high school I attended back in the Pleistocene era; this is about the only such program I use, though there are plenty of others out there. For example: Working Assets, which started out as a left-leaning mutual fund, now offers long-distance and wireless service, plus their own credit card.