[comp.dcom.telecom] Access Charge for Calling Card Calls?

LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) (09/12/90)

To add to the hotel billing (mis)practice discussion, I just stayed at
a very expensive hotel which proceeded to charge me 75c for each
calling card call I placed from my room, claiming that "our phone
company charges us a 75c access charge for those calls".

If we ignore the fact that this is cheap, stingy behavior anyway, is
it possible that they were telling the truth?

Further, it was nowhere stated in my room that any such charge would
be levied. While I couldn't be bothered to make a huge fuss over about
$4.00, does a hotel not have to tell you if it's going to charge you
for things that ought to be free?


Richard Stanton
pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu