Can you Keep a Secret?
You have to be careful who you tell what you’re looking for in the toll free business. Our 800 lookup tools don’t reserve or do anything unless you specifically request it, but some other sites are set up to automatically reserve everything anyone finds available so that they have of get the service from them. So Be Ware of Searching on other Websites you could find a number available here and then go to a different site to check it and wind up reserving it there and be stuck with their more expensive service.
Some “shared use” sites are even worse. They will reserve a number that was available and you could have gotten from another service, and they’ll say it’s now their number but they’ll “rent” it to you for several hundred dollars per month. They’ll even reserve all of the related numbers too just so that you can’t find any other alternatives anywhere else.
Every other service providing any type of lookup is doing this to “sell” the use of their service. Our site is literally the ONLY lookup tool like this that isn’t designed to sell you our ongoing service or rented numbers. You own any number you find with our system and can take any number you find with us, to any toll free service you want. It takes a significant amount of resources to provide this service (over 25,000 dollars a month) but we prefer to earn your business just by doing a better job, not by trapping anyone. But there are a lot of traps out there so be very cautious who you tell what number you’re looking for.
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Liz says:
November 27, 2007 at 6:09 am
I recently went to dial800.com to research a toll free number and when I checked the prices and the monthly fees were out of budget. I then proceeded to contact tollfreenumbers.com and was told that dial800 had reserved the numbers I inquired about. Therefeore I could not reserve my #. It was a very sneaky move and I would never do business with a company like that!
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November 27, 2007 at 7:32 am
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Bill Quimby (209 comments.) says:
November 27, 2007 at 7:38 am
Yes, that is extremely sneaky to put it mildly, because they didn’t just reserve that number but reserved several other numbers so you have to rent the number from there.
We’ll help you get the number. If they don’t activate it, it’ll come out in 45 days. Send me your contact information and I’ll try to get it for you.
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