[Closed] Yellow Pages; does any one still use it?

They are still delivered mainly for the benefit of  Old people who go fly fishing

I haven’t seen one in years, but it seems they’re staying in print till the end of the year.

i guess Geoff Capes can’t very well tear a router in half

When I get new yellow/white pages phone books, they go straight into the recycle bin...

No one has tried to deliver one here in the last couple of years.

Gets delivered here but is getting thinner and thinner. No need for Geoff Capes now a baby could probably rip it in half.

Shows how relevant they are, I assumed you were talking about yell.com.

I suppose they do have their place still.  I can see it being useful to the elderly, for instance.  My mum doesn't have Internet access, how's she going to find a plumber?

Boss asked me a couple weeks ago if we should continue paying an extortionate fee to be in it. I replied with "we still pay that??" and "I haven't seen one in years".  Turns out we've been paying a few thousand every year to be listed. What a waste!

I sure hope Surfingobo doesn't make a living selling fly-fishing kit to octagenerians.

I have 5 of them in my electricity cupboard, I can't be bothered throwing them away yet..

My Mother uses them, she lives in deepest Norfolk and TBH where she is there is no internet access, no mobile phone coverage, a BT landline is at best shonky and she still has only four channels on her B&W TV..

Ok, some of that isn't true.. but she does use the YP for exactly as mentioned.. she needed a drain expert and didn't;t want to use the extortionate DynoRod (we'll bill you what ever we feel like) and got some proper NorfolkOnion who came around, sort the problem (compact waste issue) got all covered in crap (yip, that crap) and made spotless the surrounding area and charged her £50.

He packed his horse and rode off into he distance, pulling a cart full of TV's/fridges and the dead.

I can't remember the last time I even saw one (I mean a proper Geoff Capes sized one)
I remember having hours of 'fun' finding strange names of people (like Mr A Wardrobe)

We get a much smaller version called 'On Your Doorstep' which has numbers of local tradespeople with most trades being listed.

I thought they'd gone online only now. But could be wrong.

Not seen one in years, had no idea they still existed.

As for Yell.com, does anyone even use that?

Even the euphemism is out of use these days 🙁 was one of my favourites as well.

Yell is just another registry to improve your chances of getting found on Google et al now...

But they’re also the UKs biggest PPC and SEO agency.

They’re diversifying like a good ‘un.

Even the euphemism is out of use these days

Oh, it's not, I used it two weeks ago.

My B-in-L had a short stint with the Yellow Pages as a salesman trying* to sell space for them. Was a short lived affair.

He told stories about being laughed out of offices or people googling what the Yellow Pages was.

*Really emphasise the trying part.

Provides a surprisingly realistic steering function if placed under the front wheel during a turbo seasion.

As for Yell.com, does anyone even use that?

It still has its uses - perhaps as a legacy of older and more traditional businesses using the yellow pages as pretty much the only way some business market themselves so some business can pretty much only be found on yell.

I need a traditional hand sign-writer for a contract I do - he's in his late 70s and Yell is the only place you'd find him.

I've also found that when I'm travelling for work and have to book last minute accommodation B&B's that list themselves on Yell are less likely to be booked up than the ones that come up on the first first few pages of google or are signed up to any of the booking sites 🙂

They make good front wheel risers when using the turbo. 😉

It landed on our doormat this week and went straight in the recycling.  It was like an antique being posted through the letter box, or a newspaper from 1987.