How To Spot The Fees of Prepaid Calling Cards

Prepaid phone cards are chock full of hidden fees and surcharges. All the big companies do the same in one form or another by rewording their intentions in hopes of letting your guard down when you see the words "No Connection Fee".

So you purchase the phone card and everything is fine until you start noticing some discrepancies. You go back to the website of the company you purchased your card from and delve deeper into the small print only to realize that you were hit with a service charge.

So yes you saved yourself from connection fees only to get slapped with a 23% service charge after you end each call. It's the classic rope-a-dope but technically not illegal because the service charge is not hidden. You just had to look at the calling card's extend information.

You didn't realize it before because you weren't looking for a service charge specifically. Again this tactic is applied by many phone card companies and is not illegal at all. In this case the consumer has to do their own due diligence.

The good news is, is that it is not hard to read the small print at all. Mainly because there really isn't too much to read when you look into it. For example go to www.speedypin.com.

Just select a card, any calling card and you will see that they state they never charge connection fees. And you see that the call rates are reasonable and weekly maintenance fee is reasonable which is what everyone is aware of. So you pull out your credit card and make the purchase.

Well this is where I will tell you to hold on. Just click on the calling card's picture and you will be taken to the calling card's info. You will see a short yet descriptive extended information on the calling card and hopefully you will see a service tax fee of 20% or more levied after call finished.

Now I am not saying that all prepaid phone card companies are unscrupulous. And I am sure it is not their true intention to trick the consumers. After all many of the prepaid phone card companies with long established history's practice this including speedypin.com, who by the way is one of the top prepaid calling card companies on the Internet.

So buying prepaid phone cards is not such a tricky ordeal. You just have to know where to look and never put your guard down.

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