I place a 2 minute local call (from the airport to a local hotel requesting a shuttle) at a Portland OR airport payphone. The payphone was labeled with banner that said all local calls were just 50c. When I got home a few days later, my account had been debited $24.97 for this call. I'm disputing ...
I used a payphone at the Amsterdam airport for a 2 minute phone call to Russia. When I looked at my AMEX statement, I saw that I was charged $63! When I called the company, the rep told me that they would not provide me with a copy of the receipt for "security purposes" and that they ...
After a 18 hr flight we finally arrived at Sydney airport, Australia, but needed to place a phone call to family in New Zealand and advise of our expected arrival time. Thinking a local pay phone would be cheaper than a mobile phone I located a credit card phone and attempted to phone through. The ...
I spent a weeks holiday in Chamonix/France over Christmas which I really enjoyed. Unfortunately since returning to the UK I have been charged 159.87 for four phone calls to the UK made using the pay phones in Chamonix/France. When I asked in the Chamonix tourist information I was told that using my ...
Last weekend I lost my cell phone at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) and needed to use a payphone to make 4 phone calls. I swiped my credit card in one of the available payphones by my departing gate. While I knew that it would be more expensive than using change, how expensive it turned ...
We were stuck in the puerta plata airport in the dominican republic in jun 08 and had to make a phone call from a "pay phone." we had to use our credit card to change our reservations since our flight was delayed by 10 hours. The three minute phone call cost $41.91. What is worse is that ...