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I have to say your customer service and turn around time is outstanding. I purchased a vanity number and it was up and running in less then an hour.
Thanks for everything. P.S. your key pad technology makes things much easier.
Regards,
Nick Passalacqua
Juicy Leads
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We recommend Bill Quimby because he provides personalized, professional and quick service. We began the process at 8:00 PM and our 800 number was working the next morning. Bill was available by phone to help us after his competition had already gone to bed. Bill exceeded our expectations.
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Mark Williams, President
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Bill and Staff have been tremendously helpful. They really have gone out of their way to help me find and secure numbers that would work for me. Their system is so easy to use from a search standpoint, and their guidance throuout the process is greatly appreciated. My thanks also goes out to Rita-you were a lot of help to me and are a valuable asset to Bill.
Thanks again,
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Very helpful and informative site. I was able to use the lookup to get ideas and narrow my choices. Then, activation was truly intantaneous. Very impressed so far.
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What a great service! Completely easy to use, and great supporting information to figure out how to use it best.
Jim Winett
IC Consulting Services LLC
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Bill Quimby is the rarest of resources, a fellow who actually understands how the telecom infrastructure works, and who gives incredible value for the fee he charges. I can unhesitatingly recommend his service.
Brett Stewart, Chief Technical Officer
Acumera, Inc.
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Your website is the most comprehensive website that I have seen of its sort. Your services are an asset to all those who need them. Thank-you for helping me.
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Integrity Plus Inc.
Windsor ON Canada
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I must say I am very impressed with the agility of toll freenumbers.com.
This company has the service skills and speediness of customer needs I
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BITE-entertainment.com
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"Bill makes it easy to find the right number, and just as easy to acquire it. Last time I needed an 800# it took hours of research to find 800-Marketer. This time I went straight to my bookmark and secured the numbers I needed in minutes."
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james says:
January 12, 2008 at 9:36 am
Well I don’t just want to forget about it!!! What is really going on here with these locks. Why exactly would the resporg want to lock a number and how do tehy get away with it?
Bill Quimby says:
January 12, 2008 at 10:37 am
How dare they refuse to give their number to you!? LOL.
Why would a phone company want to “lock” a number, signifying a higher security for a number that can’t be released? I think it’s a more valid question to ask why any resporg wouldn’t lock all their numbers. But that would require extra work and would dilute the signal and meaning, I think.
Getting mad at it seems a little futile though, don’t you think? Another better question is probably why don’t other companies show this information and why isn’t it an option at most companies?
I should also point out that “Resporg Locked� is my own term. It is not a term connected to or used by the SMS800. I coined it to describe toll free numbers that are essentially held at a higher level of security. It represents both numbers that are in a 99 resporg code AND numbers with some other phone companies which I believe are essentially impossible to get. I show it as a way to signify which numbers are NOT worth pursuing. Oh, I do understand your frustration, but getting mad at the messenger won’t help very much either.
Bill
FoneMan says:
January 22, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Funny and appropriate … As a 25yr Telco guy you might have explained further that the ‘Responsible Organization’ is a term that is part of the regulated toll-free industry and helps to protect the ‘owner’ of a number from getting slammed. Anybody ever have your long distance service ‘quietly’ changed without your explicit permission? Well there you go. Imagine it was your business 8xx number which for many is like a lifeline. Same goes for website domain names. Get it while you can or hope for the best.
Bill Quimby says:
January 22, 2008 at 1:41 pm
That’s a very good teleco explanation. These are numbers that people are taking extra steps to protect. And actually I took the term from the domain name industry that uses the term “registrar locked”.
Claude G. says:
February 13, 2008 at 10:36 pm
After recently having a valuable vanity toll free number stolen from me without my authorization, I quickly learned the value of putting a number in a “99″ status with my current resporg.
In doing some research, I have come accross several documents that refer to an even higher level of security referred to as a “00″ status.
Does this “00″ status actually exist? Or “99″ considered the highest level of security offered today?
Bill Quimby says:
February 15, 2008 at 2:33 am
Claude,
I haven’t ever hear of a 00 status. 01 is the default for most resporgs. And 99 is the industry default for high security. It doesn’t mean it can’t be changed but it does mean that the resporg administrator gets a phone call if it’s changed for instance instead of just an email that can get lost.
Bill Quimby.
Constantine D says:
April 1, 2008 at 2:34 am
Thanks again for helping us grab **edited**. I read about “99″ lock status on your web site - as an extra measure of security, can you please tell me if/ how we can apply this to our new number?
Thanks and best regards,
Constantine
Bill Quimby says:
April 1, 2008 at 2:38 am
No it’s really not necessary with us. We know that every customer thought that number was valuable and although we need to release numbers for our customers quickly, we also treat their number and their information with high importance. We ultimately treat every number as if it was in 99 code already, especialy when compared to a reguar phone company. But that is because this isn’t the main focus of their business the way it is ours.
Bill Quimby.
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April 19, 2008 at 9:26 am
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Dennis Sullivan says:
May 7, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Bill,
We have two of your numbers. You use to be easy to work with, finding numbers. Now all I get is RESP LOCKED or a co that never releases anything. You have a lot of premium numbers, went through hybrid1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 and nothing. Your suggestions are numbers and not words to spell out. This change in your business has me concerned.
Dennis Sullivan
Bill Quimby says:
May 7, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Dennis,
This is an interesting comment. The most obvious answer is that our system really didn’t change or maybe I should say that the only major change we did recently was to add the premium numbers and random 800 numbers. But adding those to the search results really didn’t put any less into the results. The clear issue is that it has gotten harder to get good numbers than it probably was the last time you were trying. Sometimes that can be because you were looking for a number in a less competitive category before, but I do agree that the competition has definitely stepped up quite a bit.
The best answer to what you’re trying to do, which we’re actually working on right now, is to do a more thorough search on every query. We’re doing this by adding an ‘800 Watch’ query the bottom of every Instant 800 Lookup Search Result page. We’re going to start by just adding it in a large third box below the other two. We may change the presentation once we get it up, but we really think this is too huge of an improvement not to add this asap.
You can get the more thorough results now by using the Keyword Lookup or the Advanced Keyword Lookup at http://www.TollFreeNumbers.com/keyword/. That will send you the results via email within a minute. We’re trying to get that process down to 10 seconds so it works better on a webpage.
By the way, that company that never releases anything is Primetel. They have millions of toll free numbers and I list them all as Locked because they never release anything. That’s why I describe them that way to get the idea across that they don’t release anything. They are an issue, but I really don’t want to say anything else about them because it won’t help anything or change anything.
Bill