yellowpages.com has our number listed under a local high school

[rickandcindy23]

It's getting ridiculous and the calls are increasing because more online yellow page products are now using our number for the high school. I seem to have no recourse. We have had the same number for 33 years. You can just imagine the calls all summer, asking me about registration.

I have selected the choice to report incorrect information and am asking people who call to do the same. What is my recourse against this stupid, moronic company?

 

[SueDonJ]

Good luck! Our number is listed for the repair shop of a HUGE used car dealership - we've been dealing with 4-6 calls every week for about five years now and there's no end in sight because it doesn't seem like any of their options for correcting it work the way they say they will.

 

[Passepartout]

I have selected the choice to report incorrect information and am asking people who call to do the same. What is my recourse against this stupid, moronic company?

You can always sue them. If you can find who to sue. I'm assuming this company is not the 'real' yellow pages? They can't un-publish their book, but an online listing should be able to be corrected.

You could get a new number and have a message on the old one directing your callers to 'press 1' to call you and 'stay on the line' the school. That's a crap-shoot, as your new number could have belonged to a bookie, or family with 6 daughters or something worse than you have now.

You can tell the important people to call your cell phone. Put caller ID on the affected line and silence the ringer. You can call the important calls back.

Doesn't sound like any pleasant/easy solutions though. Keep us posted it'll be interesting to see how this works out.

Jim

 

[rickandcindy23]

There is a place to report erroneous information, and I keep reporting it.

Yellowpages.com is AT&T...

 

[JoAnn]

Could you change your answering machine/service to: "This is NOT the HS/business you think you are calling, it is a private residence. Please call information for the correct #. If, however you are calling the jones house, please leave a message. " Or something similar? Can you call the phone company and complain...although I'm sure you've tried this already. Good luck in getting the other number changed.

 

[timeos2]

Can't reach them and if you do they want money to "list" you

There is a place to report erroneous information, and I keep reporting it.

Yellowpages.com is AT&T...

These places seem to operate in the Netherlands. You cannot reach anyone or get anything corrected it seems. My business number was once a used car dealer (over a decade ago as I've had the number since 1996!) and I STILL get calls on it because it is listed with at least two of the online "find any number" type sites. All efforts to track them down or get it changed went no where but recently the calls have more or less stopped so I guess they have either ceased to exist or have finally updated the listings.

One of many unexpected issues with the web & information found there, right or wrong.

 

[Big Matt]

Mine was a church for about three years. I had the nicest old women calling me and asking about the Sunday services and potluck dinners. I always told them that the number was published incorrectly.

I talked to the pastor at one point and we had a good laugh. He told me that a couple of the little old ladies said that he sounded "white" on the phone. I'm a white male, and the church was mainly an African American congretation. We had a good chuckle. I guess they forgot it was a wrong number and just got a little mixed up.