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- From: rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs KB5SNF)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Third Party Billing
- Message-ID: <telecom12.851.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 03:02:28 GMT
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- I work at a motel and I just had confrontation with a customer because
- I would not allow her to charge a call to her home phone. She became
- verbally abusive and I almost didn't get to explain to her that when a
- call was charged to a third party unless it was verified at the time
- of the call that when that party's bill came they could say that it
- wasn't their call and it would be put on her bill. (That is maybe a
- run-on sentence but I'm still upset with the tone she used with me.)
- At the end I said "If you don't like it get a Calling Card."
-
- Why don't people get Calling Cards?
-
- Why don't they understand that if they are here and nobody is home
- then how can anyone tell if they are charging it to their own phone,
- or their enemy, or something they pulled out of the air?
-
- The real question is why do the phone companies continue to allow
- third party billing?
-
- I guess it is because they can always stick someone with the bill.
-
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- [Moderator's Note: Why didn't you suggest that she use the payphone
- and place the call? Why didn't you let the telco operator handle the
- matter and avoid the hassle for yourself? If the number she billed it
- to was the number shown as her home phone on her registration card at
- your motel, and you saw some form of identification from her when she
- checked in, I'd think that would be adequate protection for the motel.
- In addition, Calling Cards are quite phreakable; I presume if she had
- a phalse Calling Card number that could have posed a problem also. PAT]
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