BEWARE Skype WiFi
I am in an RV park that offers Tengo Internet and they give you a coupon for 2 hours use to prevent it being overloaded - no biggie.
At the end of the 2 hours, I still had an email that needed to be sent and Skype popped up to tell me that Skype WiFi was available. The screen that opened said that it would cost be %2c per minute - obviously someone had screwed up the coding as I guess %2 was a variable that should translate to an actual number - but I thought what the heck, it can't be that expensive for a couple of minutes.
I sent my email and then disabled the WiFi adapter to make sure I wasn't online.
Imagine my disgust when I checked my Skype balance to find that I had been charged 19c a minute and for 30 minutes! For $5.70 that was a freakin expensive email!
I have tried to contact Skype support of course and have an interesting dialog where I get progressively more upset and they simply regurgitate the same email which is basically "tough luck - no refunds"
They do not accept that the system should have shown me the correct per minute charge and apparently, to ensure that you are not charged for additional minutes you HAVE to switch off the Skype WiFi from within Skype - of course nowhere is this explained. Simply disabling the WiFi (or losing the signal etc) does not stop the 'session' and you will be charged for 30 minutes which is when the session automatically terminates.
It's shabby business practice, virtually a con trick and it's the last time I will ever be using Skype WiFi.
At the end of the 2 hours, I still had an email that needed to be sent and Skype popped up to tell me that Skype WiFi was available. The screen that opened said that it would cost be %2c per minute - obviously someone had screwed up the coding as I guess %2 was a variable that should translate to an actual number - but I thought what the heck, it can't be that expensive for a couple of minutes.
I sent my email and then disabled the WiFi adapter to make sure I wasn't online.
Imagine my disgust when I checked my Skype balance to find that I had been charged 19c a minute and for 30 minutes! For $5.70 that was a freakin expensive email!
I have tried to contact Skype support of course and have an interesting dialog where I get progressively more upset and they simply regurgitate the same email which is basically "tough luck - no refunds"
They do not accept that the system should have shown me the correct per minute charge and apparently, to ensure that you are not charged for additional minutes you HAVE to switch off the Skype WiFi from within Skype - of course nowhere is this explained. Simply disabling the WiFi (or losing the signal etc) does not stop the 'session' and you will be charged for 30 minutes which is when the session automatically terminates.
It's shabby business practice, virtually a con trick and it's the last time I will ever be using Skype WiFi.
