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Using SayNoTo1890.com on your mobile

By 77FaOyXT0j6M1pI on 10th April 2012 in Blog

SayNoTo1890 on Mobile Devices I wrote a while ago that I’d done some work in the background to optimise this website for use on your mobile phone – the original post is here.

Over the past few months, I’ve received some feedback saying that the site sometimes didn’t display pages as expected. After some investigations, I think those problems should be fixed now.

So, if you’ve a “smart phone”, you can create a bookmark for SayNoTo1890.com on your home screen that’ll make it just like an “app”, and it’ll take you straight to the A-Z page listing of companies. More instructions on how to do that are provided here.

Geographic alternative numbers now available for Liberty Insurance

By 77FaOyXT0j6M1pI on 8th April 2012 in Blog

Liberty Insurance Logo Following a few requests from users of the site, I have now updated the L page with the geographical alternative for the Liberty Insurance 1890 and 1850 numbers.

You can find them here now.

Low call, high cost (The Irish Daily Star)

By 77FaOyXT0j6M1pI on 8th April 2012 in Blog

I was just alerted to this over the weekend. At the end of January, this website made it into the Irish Daily Star, which you can see here.

Low call, high cost
Irish consumers are needlessly paying out up to €5 a time to call ‘low-cost’ numbers such as those beginning LoCall 1890 or 1850 Callsave — even though they could get the calls for next to nothing. That’s according toSaynoto1890.com. The site points out that popular phone deals with inclusive minutes exclude calls to LoCall 1890 numbers, Callsave 1850 and national 0818 calls from their minute bundles and it provides cheaper alternatives.

If you see the website mentioned anywhere else, or if you hear it mentioned on the radio anywhere, please let me know.

Finally, a geographic alternative for Greyhound, 1890989998

By 77FaOyXT0j6M1pI on 23rd February 2012 in Blog

Greyhound Logo Finally, thanks to a user of SayNoTo1890, we have a geographic alternative number for the Greyhound 1890989998 number.

In what has been the most the most requested geographic alternative number that I can remember since setting up this website (well, maybe apart from SKY), a user of the site has very kindly sent me through the geographic alternative for the Greyhound 1890989998 number.

So, instead of dialing 1890989998, you can now call instead – 014612800 and save yourself money on the call.

From various readers, I understand that Greyhound have been very keen to try to direct their new customers ONLY to the 1890 number, but now we can save money by using the 01 number instead.

It’s worth remembering that Greyhound have a couple of other 1890 numbers, all of which have geographic alternatives on the “G” page of this website. Hopefully they won’t try to disable these geographic alternatives – but if anyone notices any changes, please let me know.

PS – to the so called “innovation” company who stole all the numbers that I, and the users of this, website have gathered since 2007 on this website so that they could charge people €1.50 for their iPhone app – I know that you don’t have this Greyhound geographic alternative, and I know that you will probably use this blog post as an “inspiration” for your next app update.

Update: November 2014 – Some feedback from other users of the site have indicated that there are various numbers that do work for the Greyhound alternative – please see the “G” page of this website for more details.

Beware imitations – SayNoTo1890.com has been ripped off

By 77FaOyXT0j6M1pI on 16th January 2012 in Blog

Forget1850.com It has been brought to my attention over the weekend that a company has stolen pretty much all of the phone number data from the SayNoTo1890.com and created their own version of this website for which they’re charging consumers to use.

This is sad for me for so many reasons.

With the kind help of the users of this website, there is 5 years of work gone into SayNoTo1890.com to compile a listing of numbers which will save consumers money on their phone calls, and are available for all to use, free of charge.

To now have a company steal all this work and try to profit from it completely misses the point of why this website was set up in the first place.

I have compared the numbers from this site with the numbers they’re making available – and while they are providing some extra numbers not available here – they have definitely copied the numbers from this website – even the incorrect ones.

It’s kind of ironic really – someone rips off an anti-ripoff website.

So, it’s worth remembering, if you really want to avoid any costs when calling 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers, then using SayNoTo1890 (even on your mobile) is the only way to do it.

SayNoTo1890 now optimised for mobile

By 77FaOyXT0j6M1pI on 3rd January 2012 in Blog

SayNoTo1890.com on Mobile Devices I’ve just installed something on the website now that should make using the SayNoTo1890.com website easier on your mobile phone. I’m still testing it at the moment – it’s working only okay for me right now on Android. And it seems to be fairly functional on the iPhone as well.

So, forget paying any money for an 1850 / 1890 / 0818 app – follow the steps below to add SayNoTo1890 to your home screen on your mobile phone and save yourself some money – by avoiding 1890 / 1850 / 0818 call costs, AND avoid paying out money for apps that this site does for free.

What to do?

Go to whichever is your normal browser on your mobile phone, and navigate to SayNoTo1890.com. The A-Z page should open up from there and give you the links to access any of the pages containing the geographic alternatives.

If you want to turn this into a (sort of) app, use your mobile phone browsers functionality to “Add shortcut to Home”. That’ll put the SayNoTo1890 icon onto your screen for easy access in the future.

Your thoughts

I’d appreciate if you could try this out to see if it works okay for you, and if the site performs as you would expect.

Update 23.55

Thanks to the SayNoTo1890 user who has already contacted me about searching via the mobile site. I hadn’t noticed that it was missing, but I’ll follow up now to see how I can get it to work.

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