Yell.com

[John Gregson]

Please don’t mention "yell" to me at the moment. Just received a lovely letter saying that if I didn’t pay my account they would take further action, including courts/baliffs.

Due to a move in premises I cancelled my yearly order, in May, by post. They are insisting they didn’t receive the cancellation so printed the previous advert. So I’m now going to have to pay over £400 (which includes a 20% good will gesture) to advertise my old premises and obsolete telephone number. $%*& 👿

Not a happy bunny

[David Rogers]

Yell.com….does nothing that typing in SIGNS and a CITY into google or yahoo (for example) won’t achieve…

Not even worth the free entry IMHO!

Dave

[Karl Williams]

quote John Gregson:

Please don’t mention “yell” to me at the moment. Just received a lovely letter saying that if I didn’t pay my account they would take further action, including courts/baliffs.

Due to a move in premises I cancelled my yearly order, in May, by post. They are insisting they didn’t receive the cancellation so printed the previous advert. So I’m now going to have to pay over £400 (which includes a 20% good will gesture) to advertise my old premises and obsolete telephone number. $%*& 👿

Not a happy bunny

But if you say you didn’t receive their threatening letter they will insist you received it and tell you this is no excuse. 👿

[Jason Davies]

Ignore them and if they continue to hassle you tell them that you will not give into blackmail, you canceled it, you have a copy of the letter you sent them and if they continue to bother you you will take them them to court for harassment and deformation of character etc. They tried this with us once. We no longer use them.

[John Cooper]

quote John Gregson:

So I’m now going to have to pay over £400 (which includes a 20% good will gesture) to advertise my old premises and obsolete telephone number. $%*& 👿

Not a happy bunny

Stand your ground John against the bullying tactics of companies like Yell. There is NO WAY I’d pay that demand.

[Cheryl Smith]

yeh, I was bullied by yellow pages…I was not happy and told them I would let all of my contacts know of the treatment I was getting from them, they withdrew and would never recommended them or yell.com to anyone….you get a free line in there anyhow….

[Gary Birch]

Be very careful if you ignore them.

Different I know but we had an electric bill at our old unit that was in dispute with British Gas, I even got the energy ombudsmen involved. That didn’t stop British gas putting the bailiffs onto us.

I ended up paying the £800 bill and drawing a line under it. These bully boy tactics stink and I just didn’t have the time or the energy to fight them.

Good luck with whatever you choose to do.

Cheers

Gary

[Malcolm Elliott]

agree with Mr Rogers, it’s not worth the money in my opinion, most people I know use Google.
I just put my free one in and am leaving it at that.

[John Gregson]

Thanks for all your replies and i’m sorry for hijacking your thread John. Been thinking about this for a while now and decided to bite the bullet and pay up. I’ve got new premises and can’t afford to allow Baliffs to turn up – not a good sign or advertisement in a new area.

Its my own silly fault really as I should have either sent the letter recorded or checked up to make sure they received the cancellation. I had that much on my plate with organising the move that I took it for granted that the letter reached them and it was cancelled.

Expensive mistake but you live and learn 😕

[John Harding]

quote :

Thanks for all your replies and i’m sorry for hijacking your thread John

its ok – wasnt much of a thread anyway till you grabbed it 🙁