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Dave Global Moderator Offline Posts: 9,902 Yorkshire Gender:	Re: VANISHING NUMBERS Reply #15 - Apr 7^th, 2008 at 8:11pm Please stop shouting !! Does this have anything to do with Sype, as described here?
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Re: VANISHING NUMBERS
Reply #16 - Apr 8^th, 2008 at 8:03pm

Saxman wrote on Apr 7^th, 2008 at 8:28am:

I HAVE WRITTEN TO THE ADMINISTRATOR ABOUT THE PROBLEM I HAVE OF THE PAGE FOR A COMANY'S ALTERNATIVE NUMBERS OPENING AND THEN THE NUMBERS VANISHING BEFORE I HAVE HAD TIME TO READ THEM. I AM TOLD IT IS PROBABLY A PROBLEM WITH MY COMPUTER. HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD THIS HAPPEN AND IF SO WHAT WAS THE SOLUTION.

Writing all in capitals is taken to be shouting as you are clearly very new to the internet or at least internet forums to have made this mistake.

It would have been kinder of my colleagues to have pointed this out. As to your problem it indeed sounds like a computer issue. Do you have a friend who knows about computers?

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jgxenite Supreme Member Offline Help us to help you - read the instructions!! Posts: 1,454 Gender:	Re: VANISHING NUMBERS Reply #17 - Apr 10^th, 2008 at 9:13am It appears this person hasn't been back since they first posted (not even to read our replies...)
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DaveM Global Moderator Offline Du vin, du pain, du Ibuprofen ¡ Posts: 845 Peterborough Gender:	Re: VANISHING NUMBERS Reply #18 - Apr 17^th, 2008 at 12:04pm Saxman wrote on Apr 7^th, 2008 at 8:28am: I AM TOLD IT IS PROBABLY A PROBLEM WITH MY COMPUTER. Doesn't this give a slight clue as to the reason this person may not have posted again !?
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NGMsGhost Supreme Member Offline The Forum Ghost of NonGeographicalMan<b r /> Posts: 2,720 Surrey, United Kingdom Gender:	Re: VANISHING NUMBERS Reply #19 - Apr 17^th, 2008 at 12:18pm I think not as they clearly could use their computer overall but were having some kind of issue with the alternative numbers lookup page not appearing. Using the forum ought to be a lot more difficult for someone computer challenged than looking up an alternative phone number.
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quickfoxtango Newbie Offline Posts: 3	Re: VANISHING NUMBERS Reply #20 - Apr 17^th, 2008 at 6:19pm Don't know about vanishing numbers but I've found that dialling the landlines given on this site for some of the 084 and 087 numbers result in a "misdialled number" response. I am wondering if these 084 & 087 numbers are putting the block on anybody dialling to the alternative landline number - or have I just been unlucky?
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Re: VANISHING NUMBERS
Reply #21 - Apr 17^th, 2008 at 6:40pm

If you have this problem you should try again adding the 141 prefix that withholds your CLI (Caller Display) number so they don't know you are calling from inside the UK. Some of them try to avoid answering calls from the UK on their 01/02 numbers but will take them if they think they are from overseas. Withholding the CLI means they have to give you the benefit of the doubt.

Also some nastier companies like Sky keep closing off the geographic numbers that are discovered to force you to call 0870 instead. Companies that do this are in the minority but they are often some of the biggest call centres that most people in the UK are likely to deal with. Shocked

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quickfoxtango Newbie Offline Posts: 3	Re: VANISHING NUMBERS Reply #22 - Apr 17^th, 2008 at 7:54pm Many thanks for that tip about the 141 prefix! Regards, Phil
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Reply #23 - May 23^rd, 2008 at 12:15pm

2 companies that have vanishing numbers are Standard Life and CoFunds.
Could it be an incompatibility with Vista perhaps as it does not happen on a lot of other numbers that we search, or an XP computer that we have on the network here. However why would it not appear with all the numbers on the same computer?
Any advice would be gratefully received! Thx.

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Reply #24 - May 23^rd, 2008 at 4:47pm

Using winXP I tested Standard Life and got this response OK:

Standard Life 0845 6060002 0131 2252552 Ask for Life Policies
Also for 0845 6060001
Standard Life 0845 6060100 0131 2252552 Ask for General Enquiries
Standard Life 0845 6060012 0131 2461846 Stakeholder Pensions
Standard Life 0845 6060098 0131 2456367 Life, Pensions and Investments
Also for: 0845 6060390
Standard Life 0845 6060179 0131 2451373 ISAs, PEPs, Investments
Standard Life 0845 7555658 0131 2455555 Savings
Also for: 0845 7555657
Standard Life 0845 8458450 0131 2455556
Standard Life 0870 6004848 0845 6023351 0161 4753000 0800 0285055 Healthcare - Stockport Office - Admin, Claims, etc.; 0800=Quotations
Standard Life 0845 7555662 0131 2450080 Business
Standard Life 0845 8458450 0131 2460005 Mortgages
Also for: 0845 8458451
Standard Life 0845 6012351 0141 2721575 Website Technical Enquiries
Standard Life 0845 6060007 0131 2452671 Annuity Queries
Standard Life 0870 6060466 01483 440550 Healthcare
Standard Life 0845 6060149 0131 2457490 Pensions
Standard Life 0845 6023500 01483 553500 Healthcare - Customer Care
Standard Life 0870 6004848 01483 553461 Healthcare
Standard Life 0845 6060008 0131 2457100 Executive Pensions Servicing
Standard Life 0845 6060035 0131 2252552 Ask for Endowment policies
Also for 0845 6060001
Standard Life 0845 6060013 0131 2252552 Ask for Pensions helpdesk
Standard Life 0845 6060004 0131 2452673
Standard Life 0845 6060395 0131 2252552 Ask for Life policies
Standard Life 0845 6060012 0131 2461866

There was also a long list of unverified landline numbers. It is therefore a pc related problem in my guess/opinion.

Barclays Bank is why I raised my earlier query as each landline number I dialled resulted in a recorded message saying something about mis-dialled number, which I had definitely NOT mis-dialled.

It's about time all this 0870 and 0845 scam stuff was stamped out entirely!

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LCA Newbie Offline Posts: 4 Fairlight, SE England Gender:	Re: VANISHING NUMBERS Reply #25 - May 23^rd, 2008 at 7:11pm Thank you to quickfoxtango for his help. What I do not unerstand is why is it just these 2 companies (so far), whereas all the other searches are fine?? Any one else experienced this and if so what system were you using.
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Dave Global Moderator Offline Posts: 9,902 Yorkshire Gender:	Re: VANISHING NUMBERS Reply #26 - May 26^th, 2008 at 4:36am Is it that the numbers appear and then disappear? Do you have Skype installed? If so, have you referred to the other thread I linked to above (in reply #3)?
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Re: VANISHING NUMBERS
Reply #27 - May 26^th, 2008 at 9:18pm

Thanks to Dave for his advice re skype. I can only find the main Skype programme, no add-ons so I cannot find anything to get rid of there.
I've also gone into Skype Advanced and turned off everything there but the Standard Life numbers still vanish, albeit not as quickly. Very strange. i still seem to have problems which other peoples help is not solving. Very frustrating, but thanks everybody for your advice.

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LCA Newbie Offline Posts: 4 Fairlight, SE England Gender:	Re: SKYPE OVER-RIDING Reply #28 - Jun 19^th, 2008 at 11:14am Thank you for all the help you have all given and i have uninstalled & re-installed Skype and all is now well!! Thank you all so much! Lyn
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Re: Skype over-riding (Vanishing numbers)
Reply #29 - Sep 17^th, 2009 at 8:29am

Turning off the Skype add-on function worked for me too. Have the Skype icon on my Windows XP toolbar - hidden but next to Tools if you click on >>.
Sorry not to have read the FAQs first!

Thanks for your help - will now update the numbers that no longer work and add the landline number I used for HMRC yesterday.

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