Comments on: All These Damn Phone Books

By: jack

jack — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:23:31 +0000

I always find its the jerks who make complaints like this. Yea, we get about 5 books a year. I live in an apartment and usually grab about four out of five of them. I still prefer phone books to the internet when I am looking for a local business. Its more personal and the list is long and I dont have spam links that take me to a useless web page.

You can use the phone book and internet to your advantage. I normally find a couple businesses I am interested in like restaurants then I look online for any coupons. Ive gotten several 15% off deals doing this.

I still look to the phone book for

A locksmith(locked myself out of my apt..) Used a neighbors book.
dining out
A bowling alley
Printers
Tow service
salon etc…

By: William Buffinger

William Buffinger — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:52:36 +0000

Sprint cell phone service is no good!
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By: Christine Buffinger

Christine Buffinger — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:03:43 +0000

HAVE YOU BEEN RIPPED OFF BY VERIZON ADVERTISING? My son’s ad, which produced 0 results, was fully paid for when we told IDEARC last July he did not wish to continue. They published it again automatically, and he’s being billed $65/mo. If U R one of Verizon’s victims, please e-mail me:
cbuffinger@hotmail.com

By: nrcbtm1

nrcbtm1 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:50:06 +0000

In Loudoun County Virginia we need to use both the Verizon directory and the Yellow Pages directory (both of which contain both “white” pages and yellow pages) because neither is complete and both have numerous errors. Sometimes only the little red Community Phone Book has the information I am looking for. This is the first place I’ve lived where I couldn’t just discard all but one telephone directory.

Even when I could just throw away the redundant directories, it still was a huge waste of paper. How many carbon-absorbing trees are lost to make these unnecessary directories?

If an agreement could be reached by the business community in each phone areas to pick just one phone directories in which to pay for their listings, we would not only save paper but businesses wouldn’t have to pay for listing in the advertising pages of multiple directories.

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:55:44 +0000

If you do not want the “CRAP” then just throw it away and move on and find something more productive to do with your time. As a business owner, we pay big sums of money to advertise in phonebooks and other sources of advertising, newsletters, newspapers, flyers, postcards, etc in hopes of offering a great product to someone that needs it. If there were not these forms of advertising for people to use to find goods & services, then what would your brilliant mind suggest? Maybe your can use your time wisely, instead of harrassing someone trying to earn a living, and come up with a better way for business & customers to come together.

By: DBlock

DBlock — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:28:12 +0000

find the company delivering these and drop them on their front lawn.

By: ArtW

ArtW — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:36:37 +0000

I found a site where I could download a poster to put on my mailbox, saying ‘No Flyers, No Community Newspapers, No Phonebooks, Please. We Prefer the Trees’. It’s worked - my garbage is only half it was.