Yellow Book USA Printed cell phone under emergency managment number and i got close to 200 calls during local ice storm. Cedar Rapids Iowa

Why wouldn't you determine who was calling and just direct them to the proper number instead of listening to all their problems thereby "aggravating" your condition. Also what has been your gross and net income from your business from that phone number for the last five years? I know what it's like. SW Bell screwed up my address on my add in the yellow pages to some extent. I got the add for next to nothing for that year AND at a discount for the following year. I had to prove damages. The first weenie I talked to blew me off. I had to go higher up in the food chain to get some action. I don't know about the aggravation of current condition though. You could have just shut the phone down for several days and added loss of business instead.

Why wouldn't you determine who was calling and just direct them to the proper number instead of listening to all their problems thereby "aggravating" your condition. Also what has been your gross and net income from your business from that phone number for the last five years? I know what it's like. SW Bell screwed up my address on my add in the yellow pages to some extent. I got the add for next to nothing for that year AND at a discount for the following year. I had to prove damages. The first weenie I talked to blew me off. I had to go higher up in the food chain to get some action. I don't know about the aggravation of current condition though. You could have just shut the phone down for several days and added loss of business instead.

Why wouldn't you determine who was calling and just direct them to the proper number instead of listening to all their problems thereby "aggravating" your condition. Also what has been your gross and net income from your business from that phone number for the last five years? I know what it's like. SW Bell screwed up my address on my add in the yellow pages to some extent. I got the add for next to nothing for that year AND at a discount for the following year. I had to prove damages. The first weenie I talked to blew me off. I had to go higher up in the food chain to get some action. I don't know about the aggravation of current condition though. You could have just shut the phone down for several days and added loss of business instead.

Why wouldn't you determine who was calling and just direct them to the proper number instead of listening to all their problems thereby "aggravating" your condition. Also what has been your gross and net income from your business from that phone number for the last five years? I know what it's like. SW Bell screwed up my address on my add in the yellow pages to some extent. I got the add for next to nothing for that year AND at a discount for the following year. I had to prove damages. The first weenie I talked to blew me off. I had to go higher up in the food chain to get some action. I don't know about the aggravation of current condition though. You could have just shut the phone down for several days and added loss of business instead.

As a business owner Eric I would ecpect you to understand that a business is like a baby. In some stages in the begining being five years of less old that stuff like this can close down a small business. It is hard enough getting things running right and having to deal with stuff like this; having to make new letter head, business cards, building signs, other signs is not cheap in fact the signs for the building were about 2 grand each and to have to change that number on them meant remaking them. This among other very costly things had to be changed.

I don't know what kind of business you run Eric in Marion but I do know by your comment that you don't have much overhead. This is not a case of putting a dent in a Geo Metro and replacing it with a Porche. It is a case of setting you Cadilac on fire and trying to say I'm sorry It just doesn't cover it. As an update I would like to let everyone know how badly this impacted my buisness. It is closed I couldn't wait on Yellow Book to settle or finish in court. The case is going good but it will be years before I see anything. I just could not afford to change the signs on such short notice with no time to save up for them.

For those of you that think this is obsered please I really don't want to hear about it. I put my life into that business for seven years realying on my wifes income to pay the bills and such at home and doing nothing but reinvesting the money from the business back into it. I never took any pay because I knew the business could not handle it. So yes 20k for seven years and what was on it's way to becoming one of the best shops in town for the work being done is not out of the question. Thats probably less than most of you make in a couple years let alone seven.

As a business owner I am glad to know the book works! LOL You should really not be so money hungry and take the solutions that were offered. Asking for 20 k was not only unreasonable, in my opinion, but absurd! Hope all works out for you. I'd really hate to be on the other side of a lawsuit with you. Gee if I dented your Geo Metro would I have to buy you a Porsche?? Good Luck in this case and life!

The person that I am working with at Yellow Book is Bonnie Peacock. It seems that she never answers the phone and when I leave messages for her they don't seem to call me back for several days. I will try again though, I will not let this drop Yellow book owes me and if need be I will hire the attorney that I have been speaking with. His name is Greg Fombelle, he is one of the best attorneys in central Illinois. Highly reguarded by peers and very good at what he does.