[pct-l] Payphones and Collect Calls

[Ron]

I don't think using a pre-paid phone card helps.  I used one in Yosemite and got 2 short calls for $20.
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Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:

>That's partly why I hung up on the call the first time. I could not  
>hear the person say their name, and it was MCI which is a shady no- 
>good company I do not wish to have any access to my credit card info.
>
>Hey, in the spirit of Bipolar's post about not listening to the hype,  
>let me reassure you that even though I reported that TrailHacker says  
>Spanish Needle creek was like September after a hot dry summer, I  
>hiked there in mid-October once and there still was water then. Not  
>trying to post any hype.
>
>
>On Apr 25, 2013, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
>> Subject: [pct-l] Payphones and Collect Calls
>> To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
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>> Ref: [pct-l] Anybody seen TrailHacker?
>>
>> I can't help with Trailhacker's location, but as an aside on this  
>> message
>> thread, I would caution folks to be very circumspect about using  
>> pay phones
>> for collect calls. I did that at White Pass outside the Kracker  
>> Barrel store
>> and ended up with an $84 bill for a five minute phone call.  
>> Complaining to
>> AT&T didn't help as they said they were just passing on the bill  
>> from the
>> third party that owned the payphone. I called the third party and  
>> spoke to
>> somebody overseas - Africa I think - and they were quite willing to  
>> haggle a
>> little but even after that I still felt it shouldn't have been so  
>> expensive.
>> As a matter of principle I wrote them a long letter accusing them of
>> predatory pricing and anything else I could think of (I'm an  
>> engineer, not a
>> lawyer) and threatened to report them to the FCC if they didn't  
>> reduce it to
>> less than $10. The threat worked as they wrote it off eventually,  
>> but it was
>> way more hassle than it was worth. With cell phone coverage and  
>> wifi access
>> getting so much better every year, this is probably not such an  
>> issue. But
>> as a last resort, a phone card is lot cheaper way to go and a lot  
>> lighter
>> than a roll of quarters.
>>
>> Peanut Eater
>
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