What visitors to SayNoTo1890.com are saying…

Thanks a lot for this. I was cut off not realising that I was using a premium number and now I can use these numbers. Good of you to publish.

thank you operating this valuable service!

This is a pet hate of mine and I value your site highly as it saves me wasting money. Do you know if there is a way to find out the number of people who are operating on a price plan or package that includes all their calls to landline numbers in Ireland? This might well be useful in convincing companies to display their geographical number in addition to the 1890 or 1850 numbers. If you know how it can be done, I am willing to do some leg-work to get the answers. Also, could a campaign be mounted to encourage Leo Varadkar to implement the changes that he so advocated when he was in opposition? And to push for a definition of who, in government or otherwise, is responsible for the foolishness that exists, ie that a system that was supposed to save people money when contacting an organisation is actually costing them extra money. Again, I am willing to give some time to help with this.

Thank you for providing such a great service since Govt bodies and ordinary Companies are charging these big amounts on the 1890 I rang the Tax Office and my bill was €9.60 absolutely disgusting, the Irish people are getting ripped off.

Well done. I've just called DAFT using your number. This is a very useful service and if I find any useful numbers going forward I will certainly contribute them.

You provide a great service-thank you.

Super Website!! especially when my landline calls are included in my package

Thanks for your website. I have complained on so many occasions over the years about this same matter. I have also complained about the money paid to TV presenters. My solution was select one of these Presenters and don't watch their show. Rating and advertising revenue(or lack of same) will do the rest for us. There is one further issue about car parking charges being introduced in certain estates and would welcome your comments on how to deal with this matter.

Keep up the good work.

Just want to say thanks for setting up such a great site. My son has gone to Canada and decided to set up online banking as he can't check his money from there. Only option when he received his pin was to ring a 0818 number. From Vancouver that would be a huge price. I looked up your site and found him an alternative ordinary number to call. Brilliant!!!

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

Hi there, I was disgusted to see your site attacked over the weekend. It really sickened me that a random organisation would target your site which is providing such a good service. It just goes to show what a messed up world we live in. Anywya, glad to see you back live. Did your Web Developers or Host Company explain how the attack happened? As a developer it would be really interesting to know.

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.

Just found your site and I would like to commend you for doing this. thank youso much for setting up a great site,have a bundle with eircom rip off if i find any numbers i will forward them to you.

I stumbled across your website, which is so necessary. This so called lo-call number thing is such a scam. I am not quite sure who is gaining from it, but it is duping the consumer. People who have to ring Social Welfare and Citizens Information, who are usually the most vulnerable, are being fleeced. Even commercial concerns who are selling products to the public, are now using this number.

Thanks for a useful site.

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

You are doing great work.I do not think people are aware that these lo call numbers are not covered in home and mobile bundles.Thank you

Well done on the website. Great way for everyone to save a few bob. It would also make a great app if it could be developed.

Hi, great site!

Thanks for your work on your website, I think it's great. All the best,

Love the website, keep up the great work!

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

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.

Thanks very much I love this Great Big Idea. Sorry, though amused, to see that some people thought you were providing a new golden pages. They will doubtless be the ones who continue to phone Joe Duffy complaining about phone charges. Don't get mad, get even. I'll follow with interest, Thanks.

Didn’t realise just how expensive 0818 numbers were and gave up when I tried to contact Debenhams.ie on their 0818 number to resolve an order query. No listing for them, does anyone have one please? Have brought this issue up each time I’ve had to call a 18XX or 15XX number and each time I’ve been told that “this is our only number”. So so glad that this site exists now, I’ve already found a few useful alternative numbers. Well done.

Congratulations on a great website. I'm browned off with these so called lo-call numbers and have not come across your website before. I will be forwarding a link to your website to anyone who's interested. Keep up the good work!

Thank you for providing a great service.

Thanks for your work on this site. Myself & family find it very useful.

Hi, thanks so much for providing a great service, and for sticking it to the man. If this was an app I think you could do really well out of it. Best wishes

Well done, just came across your site and I think it's great. The number of times I have used the "outside of Ireland number" for credit cards etc, would amaze you. I was in Galway a few weeks ago and I needed to book a room in the Travel Lodge, the mobile provider I use does not allow 1890 numbers (48 Go Conquer, it's from their site I got the link to you) so I had to go and get a Meteor sim and €5 credit just to ring the Travel Lodge. I will say it again Well done, a great bit of thinking!! Best regards and Thank you

Love your say no service and I log on and use it all the time. We have free landline calls and I refuse to pay for extra calls when I can simply dial the correct number with a small bit of research. Very little research thanks to the lists you have provided.

Many thanks for your fantastic service!

Love the site!

By the way, many thanks for the work you put into this site, and am recommending it to everyone I know, many of whom have used it also, and found it a godsend!

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

Brilliant idea. You should get a medal for this website. Thank you

I'm another one of those people who hates getting ripped off by phone companies and their 'free' calls! My package includes local and national calls and it annoys me to get charged for 1890 calls so I use your site a good bit, thanks.

Wow finally someone with a brain cheers

Rock on saynoto1890, whoever you are! I love you!

This is a great site well done, it cost me 1.94 to ring my insurance com the other day with my mobile only on the phone for a few mins, glad I found this site. Thanks again.

Great site, keep up the good work.

Good site. Much needed  

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.

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

love the site. You have saved me a lot of money over the past few months.

Thank you for a great service.

This is a super useful site – grma.  Bail ó Dhia ar an obair!

Keep up the good work!

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

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?

Great helpfull website !!!!! Recommended to all

Thanks for the great website

Great idea, I love it!. I have long been frustrated with my phone carrier charging for 1850 and 1890 calls when I have a 'free' calls package. Thanks

great website you have, very handy for people like me who have free landline calls and that can use the alternative numbers listed here!

I love your site by the way and use it all the time; it's a great resource and has saved me a fortune. Thank you. Hope this helps some people!

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

I have just found your page and I have been incensed with the exorbitant and unnecessary expense I and others have been put to by necessary public services. Can you tell me why has this happened? Who benefits? Who owns these rip-off phone services?

Great service you run, due to company cost cutting I could no longer access ulsterbank anytime on my mobile untill now thank you very much.

Ulster Bank and Ulster Bank Home Insurance are major offenders! Good Site-They should just be banned at this stage or at least an alternative should be given!

Excellent!

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

Thanks for the site, it's brilliant 🙂

BTW Great service many thanks

Really great job, thanks a lot!!!!

And thank you for your excellent service that I use very frequently.

Sorry to hear about your site being ripped off (again). As you probably know by now I have been using your service for years now and find it great so I hate to hear this. I suggest (again) that you make an app version of your site and sell it on Apple and Android. I for one would certainly buy it for my iphone.

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?

Have you checked with N.C.A. ( National Consumer Agency)and ask them if they are legal under E U law Contract Law . Very interesting as i will check out if they breach E U consumer Law ( My Subject ). I only became aware of this rip off because thats what it is . Dom you have a contact mobile or email address and maybe talk a bit more on the subject.

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

Many thanks for the service and the numbers.

Being a Tesco mobile customer, I love this site…

Tks so much for brill website.it will save people a fortune.just a quick quistion why do vopmanies companies use these numbers.there must be a reason why they wont use there 01 or 051 etc etc....it is fair annoying when you get a phone bill and see all the extras because of These numbers.would companies be willing to give out that number. Tks again.

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.

Excellent website, great resource, as the vast majority of people make calls from their mobiles these days.

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

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

Thanks for doing great job sharing alternative numbers.

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

Thank you so much for putting these up. Between Revenue/UPC/Eircom/Aviva/TSB, I was pissed off getting additional call charges on my phone bills when I had all inclusive packages. Thanks again. Will link this site as often as I can

Well done to you & thanks a million for taking the time to share with us:)

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

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.

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.

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

Thanks for the help, the websites great!

Nice site, saved me a few bob!

Thanks _ great resource – used ptsb geo for difficult account query- took over 30 mins to get beyond autopilot and deal with query- 1890 would have been outside my 3 bundle- asked rep to record my complaint that geo was not on statement – she agreed both should be on with appropriate advice note as the point is to offer best customer service. She said she understood ptsb were subsidising 1890 calls as a service! Could it be true both ends of the call are the paying telecomns for a call which could in my case be in my 3 bundle if geo? Thanks again

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.

Thank you for bringing the information re using 1890 numbers ,I can’t believe company’s are advising us to use these what they call LOW CALL Numbers and charging as much as 3times what it should be . many thanks

Hello i think your website is great

I used your site again this morning, its the best. sure why would someone pay when your offering such a great free service, keep up the great work.

GURA MAITH AGAT.

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

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE GREAT SITE.