1-800 MATCHMAKING
Rule #1, NO really does mean NO.
I get a lot of people using the lookup tool and asking if they might be able to get one of the numbers that it basically says aren’t available. In short, if it says it’s “In Use” that means someone is using it, even if it doesn’t go through when you dial it from your area. See In Use.
Emailing us to ask if the numbers that say they’re not available might be available, is kind of like sending the director of MATCH.com a bunch of photos of married people you’d like meet, and asking if any of them aren’t really married or if any of them might be leaving their current partner soon. Unfortunately there’s really no way to tell if someone is going to be leaving their partner any time soon or if they might leave them for you. You can ask if you want to. We can give you some advice on tracking down 800 numbers and help you to find the phone company responsible for the numbers which might help get you close enough to ask.
Don’t chase after married people
You’re welcome to talk to anyone you want to and if you ask is it “impossible,” the answer may be that it’s technically not impossible. But even if it’s not technically impossible, it’s clearly a long shot at best to try and get a long term relationship with someone who’s married or at least listed in the phone book as being married. Yeah, maybe they’re not actually married any more or maybe they were thinking about leaving their partner, but the odds of finding the right person are MUCH higher if you look through the list of single people that match the criteria you provided (which we can put together with the Keyword Search program), than if you insist on chasing after married people.
We’re the “1-800″ MATCH.com, not your Mother
Your mother might be able to look at people and make judgements about who is right for you and who isn’t and who they think should be willing to date you. But we just can’t tell that from the database like your mother. Even if you think we would be good, we really can’t go recruit for you the way your mother might.
Your Mom can just try and “Pick” the right person for you and be your own little recruiter, but we do more of a database matching process searching through people that are listed as single and let you pick. My usual analogy has always been that we are the GoDaddy of the phone number business because we don’t sell the ongoing use, but maybe I have to change that slightly to say that we’re also the Match.com of the phone number business.
You can probably find a partner with a regular phone company if you’re not very selective, but you clearly get what you pay for. If it’s important to you to find the best person (when you’re spending a lot on advertising) we are a LOT better at matching people up and finding the really best matches for almost anyone. I guess I’m a little biased toward Match.com because I met my wife through them 8 years ago. The point of the analogy is that if they’re not listed as single, there’s really no way to tell which people in the phone book would date you or which ones are really “happily” married and which ones might become more available in the future. That’s why we can really only help you find people that are listed as single.
There are millions of numbers and we’re ultimately limited to looking at this as a database just like Match.com sorting through the ones that are listed as single. We can give you some advice, tools and experiece, but we can’t treat it as an individual who can go up to and ask and judge people individually. If you want to dig deeper, you really need to use the information in our Consulting section and advice and combine that with your personal judgment. That personal judgment is important and not something that anyone else can really do for you effectively.
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