Comments on: South Metro Verizon Yellow Pages’ Outdated Restaurant Listings

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:34:17 +0000

There was, in fact, an embers at that location… way back… WAY WAY back.

By: MSPD

MSPD — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:58:54 +0000

I know, I know…I’m such a Debbie Downer. (And yes, this is a solid argument for sunsetting paper phone books). It’s fun to see how obsolete the listings are, but it makes sense in terms of why they are that way.

If you think about how these things work, when you cancel your phone service, the person processing the transaction (and I was one of those people for a short time), submits the change to the directories. However, at the rate phone companies change, merge, divide, sell off directory operations, these things naturally fall by the wayside. If you published to a small phone directory and the thing got sold a dozen times, your listing will probably have a permanent legacy. The person doing your disconnect order has no idea where the number and address was published all along the way.

On a side note, don’t piss off the person who is processing your phone connections and assigning your phone numbers. The people that were pissy with me got assigned phone numbers that included things like 2-4653 (A-HOLE) or other numbers that translated into unflattering things. And don’t let anyone tell you they can’t assign you easy-to-remember numbers or things like that.

By: Mya

Mya — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:50:45 +0000

I looked up my name in the South Metro Verizon pages-they had me listed living at the Burnsville apartment I lived at over 5 years ago.

By: dm

dm — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:06:34 +0000

I never even bring the phone books upstairs from the lobby.

I do remember before the Hooters was Hooters though. Before it opened, but it was just an abandoned building for a couple years if I recall correctly. I don’t remember it being an Embers.

By: Patti

Patti — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:16:20 +0000

The Verizon white pages are no better. I’m listed with both my old and new phone numbers (same address) and have been for 13 years (changed numbers after 9 months due to constant collection agency calls for the former user of the number). It gets even better–a guy I used to work with is listed at an old address he hasn’t lived at in close to 20 years. My old next door neighbor (who died 5 years ago) is still listed at that address, and for the apartment he had in Burnsivlle before buying that house. I recycle everything but the Frontier hard copy…

By: Bill Yrock

Bill Yrock — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:43:02 +0000

The Verizon Pages are garbage.. We had an office in Edina that continued to be listed in the Verizon pages 3-4 years after we had moved.. We took the number to our new office, so if anyone called they still got someone but we had no luck in trying to get Verizon to remove the number or at least change the address..

By: fp

fp — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:45:28 +0000

I still use it often, for some reason. I think I had bad luck with an online yellow pages site back in 1996 and never tried again. When I want to find vacuum tubes or typewriter repairmen, it’s invaluable!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:11:26 +0000

“Maytag’s gone”, even better.

By: Maytag's gone

Maytag's gone — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:53:47 +0000

That former Burger King on 13, then a Maytag store, is now an abandoned building.

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