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Not that they are very useful anymore, but we got a new phone book today and it is a fraction of what it used to be...even a few years ago. Anyway, I was flipping through it and looked under Guns, Firearms, Sporting Goods, etc. and there was not a single firearms retailer or gunsmith listed and there are several in my town including an indoor range. Maybe none of them wanted to advertise or maybe they were cut, I don't know. However, I did find it rather odd because they had always been listed under "Guns" previously. ---------- “Nobody can ever take your integrity away from you. Only you can give up your integrity.” H. Norman Schwarzkopf | ||
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The Blue Machine |
Traditionally the white pages listed everyone, unless they had an unlisted number. Businesses had to pay to be listed in the yellow pages, no different than buy and ad in the newspaper. I’d imagine there are not many businesses who would spend their advertising money for phone book listings anymore. | |||
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As I recall from my business days, if you paid for a business line, you got a single line, non-bold, in the Yellow Pages. This was the Yellow Pages issued by the phone company, not some third-party yellow pages. The OP may be looking at a third-party YP. Of course, the "phone company" may not issue its own Yellow Pages any more. And I'm going from memories stored on a 60 year old brain that are 25 years old. So YMMV.... Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry "Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it) | |||
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AT&T sold off the yellow pages in 2012. They kept an equity stake in case the new owners did it better. Or they couldn't get them to pay the book value at the time. Not sure who is running it now. I didn't know anyone advertising in it for years before that. | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
My wife used to do marketing for a small business. When a bill for yellowpages came across her desk her first year she had two questions, 1. Why in the heck are we in the yellowpages in 201?, and 2. Holy shit that is expensive! That ended that. Miss that job, used to get free tickets to a local minor league team. Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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I haven't used a phone book in decades. But when I did, last time, I was using them for a bullet stop for a few years. Worked better than expected on .45LC.  | |||
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| Avoiding slam fires  |
I have not received a phone book in years,never used it so I don't miss it. | |||
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I just got my new edition last week. | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
They go from doorstep to trash bin, there isn't a reason to have one anymore. I'd venture the businesses just said no to the expense, with FB, Google, etc... ads no longer need printed directories. | |||
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I get a Phone Book here in the Yoop. Its some third party BS that is a pale shadow of a phone book. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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