Trip Report: Mammoth to Yosemite then Reno: June 13-15, 2005
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Frankontour
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Patrick
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Hello,
This could be a different topic, but I just received my credit card bill for my trip to California.
To my surprise, I had over $120US on phone calls on my credit card!!! I only made 5 calls!!! No, it wasn't for phone sex. :shock: :x
I have use my credit card to make longdistance calls before (in Canada and Europe), but I have never been changes such incredible fees. I was changed around $20-25US/call which would average 10-20 minutes range.
I even got charge $5US for a 30 seconds call on a California cellphone. :roll:
Is there anything I can do about it now? What a rip off!!!
This could be a different topic, but I just received my credit card bill for my trip to California.
To my surprise, I had over $120US on phone calls on my credit card!!! I only made 5 calls!!! No, it wasn't for phone sex. :shock: :x
I have use my credit card to make longdistance calls before (in Canada and Europe), but I have never been changes such incredible fees. I was changed around $20-25US/call which would average 10-20 minutes range.
I even got charge $5US for a 30 seconds call on a California cellphone. :roll:
Is there anything I can do about it now? What a rip off!!!
Patrick":1w2mp3u7 said:
:shock:
Patrick":1w2mp3u7 said:
Probably not, the rates must've been in the fine print somewhere. Next time perhaps use a calling card? At least that way it's a known entity. You can get cards to call Canada for as little as about $0.02 per minute plus a $0.79-.99 connection fee per call.
I have had the opposite problem, being charged 75 cents/minute while travelling in Canada and phoning back to the U.S. I have been using an IDT card for some time for my annual pestering of ski areas in May for their season snow totals, which must be done during Monday-Friday working hours. That card charges 5 cents within US and 8 cents to Canada. A couple of years ago I found out that if you pay $2 per month IDT lets you use toll-free numbers in some foreign countries to call back to the U.S. at similar rates to the outgoing calls.
If you don't plan ahead and just charge to your home phone using your standard long distance company, you will get gouged crossing a national border.
If you don't plan ahead and just charge to your home phone using your standard long distance company, you will get gouged crossing a national border.
Patrick
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Admin":3847jb8p said:
There wasn't anyfine print on the payphones. :? I was finding a hard time as it is finding a payphone that would accept my credit card. I used my credit card elsewhere in Canada and Europe and never got the surprise I had with my credit card statement.
It's incredible, It cost me just $20US more to have a rental car for 10 days. :shock:
Tony Crocker":3847jb8p said:
I would've been happy to pay 75 cents/minute. I guess there is also a flat fee, leaving a voicemail on Gary's phone cost me $5!!!
Tony Crocker":3847jb8p said:
The last time I made a long-distance from the US into Canada using a phone company card was probably 5 years ago, the cost was reasonable. I guess it depends who was the long-distance provider for that payphone.
For the calling card, I know now!!! :? I still can't believe how much they charged me. :roll:
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It the first time I have heard about the scam of a credit card by the use of the phone. You have said that you only used 5 then maybe there someone else using your phone so your credit card is charge. Credit Cards has many uses and helpful to peoples in purchasing and paying some of the peoples need but it is susceptible to scam attacks and frauds if you are not careful.
