Thursday, December 16, 2010

Hidden Fees Exposed!

Maybe “no connection fee” means “no connection fee.” But it apparently also means “hidden maintenance fee, communication fee, and payphone surcharge!”

Did you know that phone cards still do exist? They are deceivingly expensive! Well, maybe not expensive in the scheme of things, but when we are talking about 2 cents per minute, an extra surcharge of $3.48 is pretty pricey. (I did the math for “La Fiesta” phone card.) The question is: since these cards are being advertised as “$10=500 minutes!” does that mean you pay the extra fee when you buy it, or is it secretly taken out of the $10 and you are only left with $6.52, or 326 minutes? TRICKY! Plus, the “billing increment” of 3 minutes means that if you call for a minute or two, you still get billed for AT LEAST 3 minutes! Crazy!

Check out some other examples below. They can all be found on CallingCards.com. I’d be pretty angry if I bought a phonecard and was under the impression that ten dollars really meant five-hundred minutes. Here at StanaCard, what you pay for is what you get. There are no hidden taxes, fees, surcharges, or anything! AND the credit never, ever expires!