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Originally Posted by rfranzq
I think this is where many of us differ. We do care about how much it cost other people to get a hold of us.
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I think I now understand your problem. Your issue was at first difficult to grasp for me, this is why:
I have been living in parts of the world (including European countries), where mobile phone calls were charged ~$0.70 ten years ago, progressively dropping to ~$0.30 today.
We see it like this: (notwithstanding the fact that we see +372 as expensive, and still prefer our loved ones to be calling us for cheaper)
- when we take our car to go visit someone, we don't expect our host to pay for gas for us
- in the same way, when we take out phone to call someone we don't expect them to pay for the call for us (doing otherwise doesn't really make sense to us - other than being a courtesy, like the car point above)
But for you in the States:
- Regulations have imposed the same rates for local and mobile calls. So as I understand, the called party is paying for the mobile call.
- Furthermore, most US companies are handing out 0800 toll free numbers (whereas in our parts of the world, even the US companies' subsidiaries are less inclined to handing out 0800 numbers - they tend to be mostly offering 08xx local rate numbers - some even charge customers for high rate 08xx numbers, this makes us angry).
These 2 points seem to be the foundation of your habits of the receiving party paying for the call.
Knowing this, I can understand that people could get frustrated (even more so business contacts), having been used to calling the mobiles at landline rates forever.
So, you need a different option, of course.
Thanks for your feedback!