Many companies now use 0870 and 0845 telephone numbers which you get charged for when phoning them – in some cases, the companies themselves will take a cut of the charges.
SayNoTo0870.com is a website that gives you alternatives to these numbers for many companies. Just search for the company you’re calling, and hopefully someone will have found another number to ring.
As an added bonus, you can also use the tricks featured on GetHuman.com to bypass recorded messages etc. and to get through to a human on the end of the phone. Some tips involve pressing the correct option on your phone’s keypad, others mean you just have to wait to get through. There’s not a great variety of companies covered yet, but hopefully once more people learn about this the coverage will grow.
Neither of the sites would win an award for their looks, but with tips this useful, who cares?!