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Can you help out other users of SayNoTo1890.com? Do you have geographical alternatives for the following 1890 and 0818 numbers?

• Eircom Broadband Technical Support – 1890 260 260
• BMI Baby(Ireland) – 1890 340122
• Aviva (Car and Home Insurance) – 1890 33 22 11
• Aer Lingus (Baggage Tracing) – 0818 365 888
• Setanta Sports – 0818 20 30 40
• AON Personal Insurance – 1890 818 852
• Driver Theory Test – 1890 606 106
• Energia – 1850 363 744

Many thanks to everyone for all your e-mails. If you have a geographic alternative for any of these numbers, please e-mail me via the contact page, and I’ll share with everyone.

Even better, if you work for any of these companies and know the geographic alternative numbers, please e-mail me in confidence.

Can anyone help out this SayNoTo1890.com reader?

Thanks for creating and maintaining such an excellent and informative site! It’s helped me a lot in the past. I don’t have a landline to call from so it’s far to expensive for me to call these “low-cost numbers”. Now, I need some help… I’m looking for a geographic alternative to the number 0818 365 065 for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Playstation Customer Service line.

A SayNoTo1890.com reader has asked if anyone might have a geographic alternative for their standard number – 1890 990 707.

If you can help out, drop me an e-mail here – or make a comment below, and I’ll share with everyone else.

A SayNoTo1890.com reader has asked if anyone has a geographical phone number for the Hotpoint and Indesit servicing in Ireland. According to theirs (and various other) websites, the contact number is 0818 313413.

As regular readers will know, this 0818 number actually makes money for the company when people call in.

Does anyone (maybe even a member of staff there) have a geographical alternative for that service?

Can anyone help out this reader? I can’t find out anything more on their website.

Great site with valuable information! Thanks for putting it together and operating it!

I came a cross a new number and wonder if you could include it in the Number Request category:

Dublinbikes.ie will launch soon and their number for problems etc is 1850 777 070. Any chance to “decode” that number?

Can anyone help out this reader?

I am trying to find the number for the onmiplex cinema in Limerick their number is 0818 719 719 and they do not give you any option of a proper landline.

Thank you very much for having this information numbers up ion the web it is very useful!

In recent times, I’ve received a large number of e-mails and comments on the site where people are asking for the geographical alternative numbers for various companies and organisations.

While I’m happy to help out wherever I can, there are a couple of things that I’d love if people could do first, before contacting the website here:

1. If you’re already on the phone speaking to someone within that organisation, ask them for a geographic alternative phone number – or ask them if there’s a phone number they can give you that you can call from abroad.
2. Check the website of the company or organisation you’re looking for the alternative number for – many websites provide their geographic alternative number on their site – normally under the “call from abroad” heading if there is one.

If you manage to get an alternative number using either of these methods above, you should still e-mail me here letting me know the number so that I can share with everyone else – that’ll make things easier for everyone else, and save them wasting time repeating the above steps.

If you still don’t get an alternative, then by all means send me and e-mail here asking for the alternative. I can either have a quick check myself, or I will post something here to ask if anyone else has the alternative number.

If you are e-mailing, please send the following information to make things easier:

1. The full company or organisation name, and the specific department or area you’re trying to contact.
2. The existing 1890, 1850 or 0818 phone number that you already have – this is very important as it helps narrow down the search for the alternative number

With the above information, it’ll make it easier to find what the alternative number might be – just giving a company name as many have done in the past is pretty much useless.

Following a comment from a SayNoTo1890.com reader, does anyone out there have a geographical alternative (01 I guess) for IKEA Dublin?

Their published 1890 number is 1890 987 938.

E-mail me, or comment below, if you have a number that can be used.

In the past couple of weeks, a couple of e-mails came through from people asking for geographical alternative numbers for a few companies. Can you help out?

• Carphone Warehouse 1850 424 800
• Screenclick.com 0818 270 710 (money making number for them)
• No Nonsense car insurance 1890 25 27 37

A reader posted a comment recently asking for a geographical alterantive for Setanta. They are another company that try to make money when their customers contact them through their 0818 203040.

Thanks to Dave from the SayNoTo0870.com website in the UK, he suggested calling numbers that are customer service for Setanta in Northern Ireland:

One entry that answers as Setanta customer service is 028 30824020. Northern Ireland numbers can be dialled from the Republic by swapping the 028 code for 048. So this number becomes 048 30824020.

This seemed to work for the reader who asked for the number in the first place.