Phone bill

[hardy49]

Our latest phone bill seemed much higher than usual.When I spoke to a person at our phone company she said that we did not actually make many phone calls but had a lot of 08.. numbers.She said that there is a web site that can stop you receiving these numbers.Does anybody know about this web site and how you go about it ?

[Doc.Spock.1]

say no to 0800.

[Doc.Spock.1]

try this.

http://www.saynoto0870.com/

[hardy49]

Thank you

[Ethel]

Those 08 numbers drive me mad, with the exception of 0800 which is free.

I could see the sense of having an 0845 number years ago when it cost a lot more to call somebody 50 miles away than next door, but that hasn't been the case for a long time. It costs no more to call from Lands End to John O'Groats than to call your local butcher.

But it costs me a fortune to call these non-geographical numbers - not the cost of a local call at all, as I don't have a land line. I refuse to call them.

[ddaisy99]

havin probs replying so apology if ths comes up twice. I used that website last week as i was booking train tickets but the only number listed on the website was beginning with 0870. I got another number from that saynoto0870 site.

[hardy49]

Thank you all

[KARL]

Just to add to the complaints about 084 and 087 numbers: Our local council has switched to this sort of numbers so if I have to contact them about some entirely legitimate issue - say if our bins have not been emptied, or whatever - we must pay through the nose. It is the same with the police: I recently wanted to tell them of something that may have been criminal activity and called their old number. When I got a recorded message telling me to dial a non-geographical number I decided not to. Any landline call during the week costs us only a 5p connection charge regardless of duration of the call - entirely free on weekends. Increasingly, one is given a mobile number to call which, on the grounds of cost, I simply never call unless it is extremely important to make the contact and utterly unavoidable to use that means.

[Ethel]

Yes, Karl, I sympathise.

I email or write to the company telling them why I have taken my business elsewhere or simply to complain about the use of non-geographical numbers in the hope something will be done.

Virgin have given me an email address for me to contact and then I am called back, so far within an hour or two, which is excellent service.