phones: September 2007 Archives
Damien linked to a site that talks about the high costs of locall numbers for many users.
David posted about this some time ago and there were several interesting comments on that article.
We are based outside Dublin, so for a lot of people there still is the mental block with ringing an 059 number instead of an 01 or a region free 1850 / 1890
We've thought about the 1800 number long and hard, but we can't really justify it.
The problem as I see it is a catch 22.
If you use a 1800 number it's hard to limit who uses it ie. restricting it to sales calls only.
If you use an 1850 / 1890 some people seem to end up paying more for the calls.
Of course we do publish our "normal" 059 number on the site, so anyone who wants to can use that ...
But if we were to start marketing based on the 059 number would we lose business?
David posted about this some time ago and there were several interesting comments on that article.
We are based outside Dublin, so for a lot of people there still is the mental block with ringing an 059 number instead of an 01 or a region free 1850 / 1890
We've thought about the 1800 number long and hard, but we can't really justify it.
The problem as I see it is a catch 22.
If you use a 1800 number it's hard to limit who uses it ie. restricting it to sales calls only.
If you use an 1850 / 1890 some people seem to end up paying more for the calls.
Of course we do publish our "normal" 059 number on the site, so anyone who wants to can use that ...
But if we were to start marketing based on the 059 number would we lose business?
