Never Pay For 411 Service Again!
 

Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 or more (Verizon Wireless charges $1.49 per call plus minutes) for 411 / information calls when they don't have to.


When you need to use the 411 / information option, simply dial 1 800 FREE 411 or
1 800 373 3411 without incurring a charge at all except for the minutes required to make the call.

nice tip, I'll have to try it

I'm definitely trying that. I HATE paying for 411 calls when half the time they don't give me the right number in the first place.

good shit man

interesting, how does that service make any money from it?

i dont have to pay for 411 , i use cingular

I usually jsut look up the info on my Treo's screen.

Berry 411 for the Blackberry rocks! :thumbsup

All you have to do is tell the op that you just called and you were given the wrong number and if they could please give you a credit. It always works, not that I would ever do anything like this :winkwink:

Most payphones have free 411 calls...

I'm gonna have to install a payphone in my car!

I have Cingular and I didn't know that... I use 411 all the time.

i have cingular too and get charged :mad:

Thank you for this tip you saved my ass yo.

Same here..

thanks for the tip

use it all the time already :)

What's the catch?

cool shit, that'll save me some cash!

Thanks Dave
 

looking forward to seeing you and cameron this weekend.

Here's the catch and how it's free:

Found the info here:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/free411.asp

How can Free-411 afford to offer free directory assistance service? It works sort of like commercial radio or television ? businesses pay to sponsor it in exchange for presenting their advertisements to customers. The funding of Free-411 is typically explained thusly:

The service is made possible by thousands of national and local businesses who sponsor this service with brief valuable audio advertisements that are played to callers who request businesses in their yellow pages category. This advertising model allows businesses to acquire new customers over the phone, cost effectively, with little or no risk. Meanwhile callers get free directory assistance, potentially saving each of them thousand of dollars per year.

The way it works in practice is that a caller who requests a business number is first presented with a short (about 12 seconds) audio advertisement for a sponsor who operates a competing business in that area; the caller is then given the option of being connected to either that competitor or the business he originally requested. If no sponsor operates a local competing business, then the caller hears no advertisement at all. (In the latter case, if the caller accepts the option to connect to the desired number, the business receiving the call hears a short message at the beginning advising them that the call was placed via Free-411, and a Free-411 salesman may follow up with them a few days later to solicit them as a potential advertiser.)

Send a text message to 466453(GOOGLE) with your query and don't even bother using minutes. :) Usually responds back within seconds (faster then a phone call).

That pisses me off so much

GREAT tip, thanks for sharing!

Works in canada too. Had to talk to the operator but that's pretty fucking cool

Just tried it out on my cell...works great!!...saved the number....Thanks man!!! :thumbsup

the only thing that sucks is it does not connect you to the #. i know when i'm driving i dont have time to be writting a # down. i like how cingular will connect you to the #.