The Bring a Friend to WPC Club contest is now live, and it offers every active WPC Club member the opportunity to earn a €100 prize voucher simply by introducing a collector friend to the association. Inviting a friend to join means helping the WPC Club grow its community of phonecard enthusiasts, strengthening the financial base that makes the PIM possible, and giving a fellow collector access to one of the most active international communities in the hobby.
The contest runs until February 28th, 2026. The rules are simple, the prize is significant, and every WPC Club member is eligible to participate.
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Why Growing the WPC Club Community Matters
The Worldwide Phonecards Collectors Club is a nonprofit cultural association. Its activities, organising the PIM – Phonecards International Meeting, producing the annual numbered Membership Card, building partnerships with cultural institutions worldwide, are financed entirely by membership fees and the voluntary commitment of its members.
This means that every new member who joins the WPC Club contributes directly to keeping the PIM free and accessible, to funding the production of exclusive collectibles for members, and to expanding the reach of the international phonecard collecting community. New members who share a passion for collecting also bring new energy, new collections, new connections and new perspectives to the association.
The Bring a Friend contest turns this organic reality into a rewarding challenge: active members who introduce a collector friend to the WPC Club are not just performing a favour for their friend. They are making a concrete contribution to the hobby they love, and the WPC Club wants to recognise that contribution with a meaningful prize.
The Bring a Friend Contest: How to Participate
Participating in the Bring a Friend contest is straightforward. There is only one requirement: when your collector friend joins the WPC Club as a new member, they must enter your name in the Introducing Member field on the WPC Club membership form.
The Introducing Member field is a free text space on the membership form where new members can record the name of the existing WPC Club member who introduced them to the association. If you introduced the friend, your name goes in that field. Each friend you successfully introduce counts as one point in the contest.
If your friend joins and forgets to enter your name, do not worry – notify us by email at [email protected] and we will calculate the amount correctly.
The contest runs from the date of publication through to February 28th, 2026. The member who has introduced the highest number of new members by the contest deadline wins the €100 prize voucher. In the event of a tie, the winner will be the member who reached that number first.
The Colnect phonecard catalog, the world’s leading platform for phonecard cataloguing, is a good place to find and connect with collectors who may not yet be aware of the WPC Club – a natural starting point for finding friends to introduce.
The Prize: A €100 Voucher to Spend at the PIM
The winner of the Bring a Friend contest receives a €100 voucher to spend at any exhibitor’s table at the PIM – Phonecards International Meeting.
For a serious phonecard collector, this is a genuinely valuable prize. At the PIM, exhibitors from across Europe and beyond bring their most interesting material: rare cards, complete series, themed collections, phonecards from countries and telecoms operators that are difficult to find elsewhere. A €100 budget at the PIM can yield extraordinary additions to any collection.
The PIM 2026 takes place from April 17 to 19 at Parco Culturale Le Serre in Grugliasco, Turin. If the contest winner is unable to attend in person, the WPC Club will put them in touch directly with an exhibitor who has the material they are looking for, and the voucher can be redeemed with the cards sent directly to the winner’s home address.
This flexibility ensures that the prize is accessible to collectors anywhere in the world – which is important, because the Bring a Friend contest is open to all WPC Club members regardless of country.
Who Can You Invite?
The Bring a Friend contest is open to collectors of any nationality. The WPC Club is an international association with members from more than 30 countries, and new members can join from anywhere in the world.
This means your network of collector friends is not limited to your country or region. Whether you are in contact with collectors from Europe, North America, South America, Asia or elsewhere, any active collector who shares your passion for phonecards is a potential new WPC Club member and a potential point in the Bring a Friend contest.
The ideal friend to invite is someone who collects phonecards seriously and would benefit from access to the WPC Club’s international community, the annual Membership Card, the PIM and all the other benefits of membership. If you know someone who attends phonecard events, participates in online collector forums, or maintains an active collection, they are precisely the kind of member the WPC Club wants to welcome.
Why Joining WPC Club Is Worth It for Your Friend
Introducing a friend to the WPC Club means offering them access to something genuinely valuable. WPC Club membership is not just a title: it comes with a set of real benefits that any serious phonecard collector will appreciate.
Every WPC Club member receives the official numbered Membership Card for the current year, a limited-edition collectible that only members hold. For 2026, the Membership Card features the Timeless Passion design by Matteo Pasqual and Christian Martino, selected by the community in a public vote that attracted more than 2,000 participants.
Members also gain access to exclusive purchasing opportunities for limited-edition items, updates on all WPC Club activities and contests, and priority access to special programmes developed for the PIM and beyond. The WPC Club membership page provides full details of all current member benefits.
For collectors who plan to attend the PIM, WPC Club membership also provides access to the exhibitor programme and to the hotel agreements that the club negotiates for members attending from outside Turin.
The WPC Club’s Growing Community
Since its founding in March 2024, the Worldwide Phonecards Collectors Club has built a community of more than 115 members from over 30 countries across five continents. The PIM has grown across three editions – from the first one at Parco Esposizioni Novegro in 2024 to the expanding editions in Grugliasco in 2025 and 2026 – into the world’s largest dedicated gathering of phonecard collectors.
The Bring a Friend contest is one expression of how the WPC Club grows: not through advertising, but through the personal connections and recommendations of its own members. When a passionate collector introduces a friend to the association, the new member arrives with context, motivation and a trusted point of contact already in place. That is how a strong community is built.
Final Results: Vincenzo Saurino Wins with 16 New Members
The Bring a Friend to WPC Club contest concluded on February 28th, 2026, and the winner is Vincenzo Saurino, who introduced an outstanding 16 new members to the WPC Club during the contest period.
This result reflects genuine commitment to growing the community: 16 new collectors joined the Worldwide Phonecards Collectors Club thanks to Vincenzo’s personal introductions, each one entering his name in the Introducing Member field on the membership form.
Vincenzo receives the €100 voucher to spend at any exhibitor’s table at PIM 2026.
We thank Vincenzo and all the members who participated by introducing collector friends to the WPC Club. Every introduction, regardless of the final standings, contributes to building the strongest possible community for phonecard collecting worldwide.
A new contest will be announced soon. Join the WPC Club or renew your membership to ensure you never miss a WPC Club initiative.
