Going ex directory, is it worth it?

oldMcDonald

Stompa wrote:

Fair enough. I'm not sure I can think of anybody who I wouldn't want to be able to find my number though!

I can!! Either you are very lucky and know nothing but fantastic people and have a wonderful extended family, or I am very unlucky in that not everyone I know are fantastic and my extended family:mad: ..etc..etc

I am ex-directory and as a back-up have caller display. 1571 answers the phone if I don't know the number and then if it is important or someone I do want to talk to after all then I phone them back.


lisa

BexTech

Also when you've been a witness, there are some people who aren't too happy about the fact.

Stompa

I've clearly led a very sheltered life!

oldMcDonald

Stompa wrote:

I've clearly led a very sheltered life!

LOL

:beer: Lucky so-in-so :beer:

lisa

DrBenway

A guy at work patches his phone through a modem into some software
and if it is a withheld number they get a message saying the line doesn't accept withheld numbers. I think if the caller id doesn't match any in his database then he can automatically give them the chop as well.

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Benway

tomstickland

I've always thought that being ex-directory is a bit odd. I still do. You have a phone to allow people to communicate with you; let them.

BexTech

Being ex-dir is not odd at all, the people we want to call are given our number, simple, I find it strange that people want to be in the phone book or available to DQ services, why would you want that?

Contains_Mild_Peril

I changed my number and went ex-directory years ago after receiving nuisance calls. I was surprised to get a market research call a while later. I told the researcher that I would answer her questions if she would answer mine: how did her company obtain my number? She explained that their computer dialled random numbers which might or might not be real phone numbers, and that this is quite common!

BexTech

Yes, it's very common.

Plus market research isn't covered under TPS or at least it wasn't.

annie-c

I am ex-directory, signed up with TPS and also have opted out of being on the publicly available electoral role. I give out my number freely to people I am sure of, but am just cautious with regards to people I don't know. I also hate sales calls and these days get maybe one every couple of months, whereas before taking these precautions I got them all the time.

However, I am extremely fortunate in having parents who live relatively locally and in the house that I grew up in - so I never miss out on wedding/party/catch-up invitations - even at my grand old age of thirty-something, people I know can always track me down.... but no-one can (easily) ring to try to sell me double glazing at a really crucial point in Eastenders.....