kz
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Registered: 9th Aug 02
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copied from another forum, very useful!
Yesterday I was a little bored so I pulled apart my mobile bill to try to ascertain exactly where I was loosing the most cash. It turns out that I've been spending between £5 and £10 month on Premium rate numbers!! Well, that's not too bad if I was talking about THOSE types of numbers, but I'm actually referring to the 0845 variety which all banks, credit card and insurance companies insist you use to contact them.
From my mobile (Orange) during the day it works out around 9 pence a minute, which soon adds up if you get put on hold for a while, or even worse you get directed to the subcontinent where you have to slow down your speaking to a snail's pace and repeat more times than a can of Redbull.
And the worse bit about the whole thing is that they're not covered by your free minutes because they're "premium" connections, which means I'm often left with unused minutes at the end of the month + inflated call charges.
Anyway, there is a solution, although I apologies if this is already common knowledge and I am the last person in the world to realise this, (and I have done a search and nothing obvious came back): -
Go to
http://www.saynoto0870.com/search.php
Type in the number of the company or the phone number you use i.e. 08457 404 404 for HSBC and it will give you a local "real" number instead of that 0845 code, which in this case is 01226 261010
So all I did was go through all those types of numbers in my mobile such as;
HSBC
Halifax
British Gas
Thames Water
..delete out the 087% or 084% numbers and replace them with the local numbers.
This is also useful to know if your place of work has 0845 restrictions on their phones.
HTH
Dan
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TNM
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K2 GTi
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Me too no results found
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kz
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oh well i havent tried it myself as i never phone these sorts of numbers! but on th forum it came from its been very sucessful apparently 
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Tom
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Nice idea but hsbc don't come up even though it's mentioned?
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Voyto
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hsbc works for me, brings up loads of numbers
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Carl
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01226 thats my area code, what kind of shite has its head quarters in Barnsley?! 
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Sam
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The 01226 number for HSBC - if you bank with them, look at the back of your card, it has the same number on there (for people who are not in the UK apparently).
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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This person seems to be an idiot. A) why is he not usng a BT landline to call these numbers and B) does he not know why companies use the numbers in the first place?
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John
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This just seems to be one guy thats posted this on a forum.
Its a bigger thing than this one guy.
Moneysavingexpert are right into it.
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