I'm working on an art project that requires thousands of old, expired,
DEACTIVATED credit cards. Due to legal issues and weary sellers i have
had a hard time getting them in as fast as i would like. My deadline
for this art piece is Thanksgiving 2006 because the art project needs
to be released for Christmas.....So my question would be, What do i
have to do to get the amount of credit cards i need? again I am
looking for the physical credit cards only. It doesnt even need to have
a persons name on it i just need, credit cards, all differnet kinds.

Expired credit cards are generally destroyed by the cardholder. Have
you considered making mock-ups with fake names and numbers, and
nonexistent business entities as the card issuer?

Have you thought about collecting the "fake" credit cards that credit
card companies always send in their credit card offers.  I get three
or four every week.  On the front it looks like a credit card, but the
back is usually blank and it has no confidential information on it. 
Sometimes they are plastic, sometimes thin cardboard.

I tried to find where to get some.  All I found was a referrence to
someone collecting them for an art project!
http://tribes.tribe.net/learntodrive/thread/be44f3b4-74c6-4985-9f14-5758f21af175
"of course if any of you need a place to send phony credit cards that
come in credit card offers in the mail, I'm that place. I've been
collecting them for some time for an art idea I have."

Good Day:

Usually when one cancels his\her credit card they simply cut them into
two. That is best way to ensure the card will not be misused.  I could
find only one   page which has a post offering to sell credit card
waste.

It is at Alibab.com:  there is a posting to sell ?Sell PVC Credit Card
Scrap?.  The seller is in US and the entire detail is given below?


First offer page:
Quote
http://www.alibaba.com/manufacturer/13877753/Sell_PVC_Credit_Card_Scrap.html

Sell PVC Credit Card Scrap
Post Date:	Jun 13, 2006
Expiry date: 	Jul 13, 2006

Detailed Selling Lead Description



PVC credit card scrap post industrial scrap. On going. 

Contact information:
http://www.alibaba.com/memberhome/sellleads/13877753/contactinfo.html 

SDE Services USA, LLC
Contact Information
Contact Person:	Ms. Susan Zhu
Job Title:	Director/CEO/General Manager
Address:	4002 167th Street, Flushing, New York, United States 
Zip/Postal Code:	11358
Telephone:	347-728-0913
Fax:	347-728-0913

Unquote

Hope this will be of help to you.

Searched for:
waste  credit card scrap


Regards
Jadayu-ga

The guy in this story has a lot of those phony credit cards -
http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/creditcard/year_of_credit_cards.shtml