What visitors to SayNoTo1890.com are saying…

Thank you for the website. It's a great help. I'm so sick of trying to run a household and having to call these numbers on a daily basis. I just can't do it anymore from my mobile. Electricity, gas, phone, helplines even revenue have now changed to 1890. There should be some regulation on these numbers? Thanks for running the site.

You provide a great service-thank you.

Thanks for this great service. Used it today to confirm receipt and activate my new Public Services Card. Instead of phoning 1890 837000 which is not included in my UPC landline package, I called 01 7043000 and got through very quickly and got transferred to the correct person. Job done in under 2 minutes.

excellent site. Keep up the good work!

Congratulations on a very useful service and thanks!

Nice site. I was trying to explain to VHI that they should not be using an 1890 number, especially for their VHI Global department, whose products only apply to those not living in Ireland. As you know 18nn numbers can't be reached from outside Ireland. They pay n cents a minute for incoming calls too. It feel like a waste of time 🙁

Love the website. It has saved me money on many occasions. Do you have an app for android or ios or if not will you be developing one. I know that developing apps cost money, so maybe the people like me who have saved money through your website could help towards the cost. I know i would be willing to help. Thanks again and keep it going.

A site that saves you money instantly, not a promise of savings. What a great site. Thanks.

Hi, I found your website by accident and just want to compliment it and thank you for the work you've done. I've shared it on Facebook because I absolutely hate 1890 and 1850 numbers. I've written to my local TD and to Comreg to try and get them to force businesses etc to include landline numbers aswell as the 1890 and 1850 numbers on letterheads, websites etc but was unsuccessful. My TD referred me to Comreg, Comreg basically said it's nothing to do with them. It drives me crackers and I have wasted a huge amount of time hunting down alternative numbers on websites as a matter of principle. This website wil be a great help. Thanks Colette

This has to be one of the most useful websites I’ve seen in quite a while!! How come there isn’t a consumer backlash against the telco-companies for offering all-in packages on the one hand and yet in collaboration with all the other service providers conspire to manage to charge for what are otherwise free calls. It’s a bit lousy of them and extremely sly. Thanks for this fantastic resource!!

Thanks for the website - it's great!

Thank you so much for setting up such an excellent page. I really appreciate it. I had to ring Irish water. Thanks to your web site, they didn’t have the ability to rip me off by using their 1800 number.

I think your service is great and I often use it.

I think this site is just brillant, Well done on providing these nos to us all. 1850 nos only cost 5c from a land line no matter how long you are on for and 25c on mobile but the 1890 nos and 0818 are a real rip off! Id love to know who is getting the money for these calls. Keep up the good work. and Ill be keeping an eye on this site reguaraly. Cheers Marie

I use the site a lot and I find it fantastic. I run a small business and need to mind the costs. I have a landline which includes anytime calling to national numbers. I simply refuse to use 1890 numbers when I have free calling to anywhere in Ireland. Your site helps me a lot to find fixed landline alternatives to 1890 numbers. Thank you for your great initiative.

I believe you just saved me a fiver Thanks, 1890 alternative numbers for pure profit should be legislated against.

Thanks for setting up and maintaining this site. I hope it gives you reward. I tell as many friends as will listen!  

It was wonderful to find your site and even more wonderful to realise there is such a committed person on this planet. I'm nearly 70 and find some of the business world and government agencies becoming very convoluted and dishonourable  - under the guise of transparency! Regards and big Godbless you - Mary

Looking good, certainly more attractive than the old site, like the red font as well as getting the message across

Excellent site!! I’ve used this site many times & saved a fair few bob over the years. Many, many thanks for taking the time to selflessly devise & update this site

Thank you for managing this valuable site

You’re providing a great service on this site. Much appreciated.

I use this site quite a lot thank you.

Keep up the good work!

These numbers have been annoying me for years as I have an Eircom package (calls in Ireland free 24 hours) and I really hit the fan today when I tried to contact Electric Ireland......... and could only speak to the auto-voice (or whatever they call it) but as my query was a little out of the ordinary I could not get any information. Tried several number combinations but could not reach a HUMAN. There was no alternative 7 digit number readily available on either their correspondence or in the telephone directory so I decided to google just to find out the telephone charges. This was when I came across your blog...... Thank you. Sorry I cannot help you in your mission........ My brain is antique.

i have had a bee in my bonnet about this for many years / so THANK YOU

HI came across your site before , but need a number today and rediscovered it , Now on my links of my safari page .. is there a way we can lobby the government or business and bring more awareness to this SCAM .. This subject is one of my pet hates , Keep up the good work

Thank you so much for this free service. It's so good of you to give up your time to help people in such a practical way. I've recommended it to everyone I know! Keep up the great work. I'm sure you have a heap of good karma heading your way.

GURA MAITH AGAT.

Keep up the good work.

I've been using your site for years now and I would firstly like to thank you for the savings I've made as a result!

Thank you so much for setting up such an excellent page. I really appreciate it. I had to ring Irish water. Thanks to your web site, they didn’t have the ability to rip me off by using their 1800 number.

Great work on the site. Keep it up. I try to tell everyone I know about it. Super utility.

Great website. A really good resource. Thanks for the information.

Thank you for this web site. Spent all day yesterday trying to find a non 1850 number for Airtricity that I could call from the UK with no success. Happened on your web site this morning – Hey Presto found number and job done. I have shared you on facebook – not sure how to leave a comment otherwise. Thank you once again.

I discovered your website when I was trying to find a geographical number for Sky, who can keep you on a 0818 call for any length of time. I really am fed up with companies listing non geographic numbers as low call which I don't think people realise is of no benefit to them as most phone packages have free geographical calls. I now refuse to dial these numbers. Keep up the good work.

Hi. I don't have your name but I wanted to say thank you, this is a great saving. Have you thought of going to the country with it? Joe Duffy, Pat Kenny or John Murray might well be interested in including it as a feature. Would you mind sending me an email so that I can put you in my address list? Thanks again.

Thank you for providing a great service.

Excuse what must seem like a basic query, but am I right in thinking all of these companines somehow make money out of callers calling their 1850, 1890 etc numbers? Else why would they not provide ordinary landline numbers?

First of all, well done a brilliant site. I use it often.

Thanks very much for a super website fair play to you.

I just recently found your site and think it is the best use anyone has made of the Web, so far I've only used it once but I can see me being a regular visitor.

Thanks for the help, the websites great!

It was wonderful to find your site and even more wonderful to realise there is such a committed person on this planet. I'm nearly 70 and find some of the business world and government agencies becoming very convoluted and dishonourable  - under the guise of transparency! Regards and big Godbless you - Mary

Fair play, very helpful found what I was looking for.

Great service you are offering. Very much appreciate your help.

Many thanks again for this site, its excellent.

Can you believe I was on to Eircom 1890 number I was on hold for over 40MINS but I got a response when I called the 01 number you provided. Thanks for that.

This is a great service thanks for trying hope this leads to someone else getting through for local rate. Thanks for your assistance with other numbers, much appreciated.

Just to say a big thank you. I need to ring up one of the bank (sters) but I will not pay telephone charges. M.E

Many thanks for your fantastic service!

A site that saves you money instantly, not a promise of savings. What a great site. Thanks.

Keep up the good work!

Let me start by saying that this is a great site. I use Say No To 0870 in the UK and so searched for a similar site in Ireland and found you. Every time I use your site, whether successfully or unsuccessfully, I sing your praises.

hi whoever you are, Savior of the world! Just a thanks for a great police service - it's really appreciated!

This is fantastic website to know of. Well done for finding and publishing all these numbers. Monbile costs are high enough without being fleeced by the 1890/1850 numbers. Great site.

Hi. Love your site and use it quite regularly. How about an app on your phone that gives you all the numbers or when the phone tries to ring out an 1890 or 1850 that the app takes over and gives you an alternative number. the app could be initially free...but as membership progresses ...you charge a nominal fee for updating. Just a suggestion and keep up the good work.

Just came across this when googling a missed call number. This website is a brilliant idea and I just want to congratulate you. These "low call" numbers are a scam imo and should be done away with. Thanks for all your work!

Great site, really helpful to avoid being ripped off on call charges.

KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK

The work you do is very important. thank you so much.

I just want to thank you very much for setting up and maintaining this website. I have used it a number of times and it is very useful.

Thank you for the service you provide

Hi, I just wanted to thank you very much for your ongoing work with this site – I find it really useful and helpful. I appreciate that you put in all this work in your spare time – well done and thank you! Take care, Brid

Thanks for a great and truly useful service

Hello i think your website is great

Thanks a million for this great resource! It's a real cheek for companies to charge for you to call them...

Great work on all this!

Thanks for this great service. Used it today to confirm receipt and activate my new Public Services Card. Instead of phoning 1890 837000 which is not included in my UPC landline package.

This has been a bone of contention for me for a while and finding your site has answered my question regarding getting around 1890 numbers. Just wanted to say thanks for your work on this.

Just to say thanks .your information is great. i never knew about the 1890 numbers. I had thought that it was to reduce the cost to me not the other way.

Love the website, can't believe I only fund it now, I've been warning people about calling their "lo-call" number, such as Internet banking for years. Where do you get the alternative numbers? Do all 1890's etc have a geographic alternative? Keep up the good work.

Just wanted to say how good your website is. Well done! I've used it often and tell anyone I know about it.

Thank you for what you do.

Keep up the EXCELLENT work on this site. I use it all the time; I hate being ripped off with exorbitant call rates. Am delighted I can finally contribute a number to your list. 🙂

Thanks for the alternative number, now I can ring Bank of Ireland as part of my landline package for no extra charge.

I love your site and use it all the time, keep up the good work.

This is a super useful site – grma

Firstly, THANK YOU SO MUCH for your website! These numbers have been bothering me for so long. I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one.

Hi There, I came across your website when I just put into search "what are 1890 numbers", having just noticed for the first time the charges on my Vodafone bill for calls to 1890 numbers, and so many companies use the 0818 / 1890 / 1850 etc. My question is why? Why do so many companies have these numbers...., what is the benefit to the company? And why do you think the mobile phone providers don't include them in their packages when they are so widely used? It is not something they share with you when you sign up for your agreed package, they will tell you 400 free minutes but I don't ever remember them saying to me "but not to 1890 / 0818 or 1850 numbers", they should. If you call an 1890 number from a landline, is it still costing more than just calling the regular 01 +++ number? I am just wondering who these numbers are benefiting?, and they should be obliged to advertise that the locall only applies when dialed from a landline.

thanks for all your help it's a fantastic site and has save me loads

It would be great if also include 0818 and other types of premium numbers into you brilliant app and on this website.

I'm sick of the growing trend of companies using 1890 and 0818 numbers. Like you I have complained to Comreg, NCA and even the Dept. of Communications, but no one is interested. I just received a letter from AIB changing to an 0818 number. I went to complain to the Central Bank, to see they use an 1890 number themselves. Is there any point in trying to start a petition website or emailing all contacts with sample letters of complaint to send to the Minister of Communications and their local TD?

As a frequent and appreciative user of the information you provide, this website came to mind when I wondered if there was a campaign against the practice of companies answering dialled (charged) calls with initial "info"/ads, which consume expensive phone time, before allowing the caller to access the service they dialled for? They will call it information but frequently it is an ad the caller is involuntarily paying to receive. This may be acceptable on freefone numbers but surely not on charged calls? Hope my point is clear!

Thanks for your service

Great idea for a website.

Don't mind the ass holes just keep doing what your doin it's a start in the fight against all the crap that's GoinG on in this country we need more like you . To sin by silence when we must protest makes cowards out of people. sounds good yeah .anyway moving on. On a website scroll down to terms and conditions or privacy or whatever else is there in small print at the end of the page you will find a landline or for international callers always works for me . keep the faith our day will come. . . .

Thanks for all the info, great help with phone costs.

Excellent!

Thanks to all above,,my first time to take notice of this whole subject... the usual sly ripoff that goes on in this country.  If they were honest and told the cost it would pay them more in the long term but they have to sneaky steal from their own costomers.

Great site. Thanks a million.

Tax offices and other govt offices are increasingly using 1 890 numbers and there is no landline alternative. Many people now have packages allowing them to call any irish landline for no call charge, I pay €45 pm for broadband, and all irish and Uk calls free 24/7. Therefore it costs me when there is only a 1 890 no? Why is revenue doing this? What is in it for them, could they be getting a share of the cost? You have to hold on and on and then the call can be a long one, i was on for 31 min recently due to revenue ROS system having problems. Could this be another stealth tax by the govt?

Your site is just amazing really and thks

Thank you for the website. why is there such a proliferation of these 1850 / 1890 numbers ? do the companies concerned save money by having them ? what is the position of the telecom regulator on this scam ? thanks again