For the 2nd time in many, many years, H used a CC for a payphone (local phone call). The CC bill charged us $10.51 for 1 minutes local call! I called to complain and disputed the charge and the CC company kindly instantly recredited me $10 and let the $.51 charge stand.
If coins are used, the charge is $.50. If you use a CC, your CC will be assessed $10.51 or so. Please be aware and act accordingly.
H says he won’t do use his CC on payphone a again. Grrrr!
Someone still uses pay phones? They still exist? 
H seems able to find them, once at the airport pre-cellphone and once at the mall when I had both phones. I never have used a CC for a payphone.
Honestly, I wish there were more pay phones. There are too many dead zones for cell phones out there, and no way to call out.
Still, why couldn’t this one have worked like one of those machines that you pay instead of a parking meter? They have no ridiculous surcharge.
I haven’t seen a pay phone in years…but even if I did…I would use my cell phone to make a call.
I thought you were talking about some sort of College Confidential app (CC) for a payphone! Why would anyone use a payphone and I would have expected it would cost a fortune since they are a dead breed, so to speak.
Back in the day before cellphones, we had a code to punch in on pay phones so our call would be charged to our home number (or DH’s work number). I think before that you could go through an operator to do that charge. I spent a lot of vacation time hanging around outside phone booths while DH called into work.
Maybe the $10 charge was the charge to enter the museum of natural history to see the prehistoric devices exhibit ! jk :D/
I also thought you meant College Confidential!
Yeah, payphones, especially if they are operated by local small independent no-name companies, are a trap. Anyone who still wants to use one (if you can find a “phone booth” these days) should look into pre-paid telephone cards. Yes, they still exist and usually the cost is pennies per minute. Years ago I used them a lot (from my home landline, no less), especially for long distance, at a time when long distance was otherwise expensive.
Anyone remember “calling cards”. I found some of those in a a kitchen junk drawer…they had prepaid amounts you could buy.
I could add those to the “obsolete phone museum”.