Let’s say you know someone’s cell phone number and home phone number. You need to reach them about something.
Which number do you call first? and why?
I always tend to call people’s home phones, unless it’s something for which I need to reach them fairly immediately.
People tend to call my cell phone, if they have it… despite loads of evidence that I don’t get voicemails from it all that often: Itdoesn’t work in my office building, so I’ll go days w/o turning it on.
It really depends on the person I’m trying to reach. People who are out and about a lot and tend to use their moblie phone get called on that. People who tend to be more at home and/or use their mobiles for emergencies only get called on their home number.
For some people it just depends, if I think they’re out, I call them on their mobile, if I think they’re in, I call at home.
For me, I don’t care which you call. If I’m at home I might not get my moblie phone when it rings, but I do check it. If I’m out and can, I’ll answer.
If I think they’ll be at home I call the land line first. If I think they’re elsewhere I call the cell.
If they have told me they prefer one or or the other, I’ll call the one they prefer.
I basically call the cell every single time. If they want to call me back from their home phone, that’s fine.
If I know for a fact that they are not currently home (because they have a regular daily schedule, or whatever) then I call the cell first. Otherwise I always try the home number first.
Cell. Especially if they’ve got a spouse or kids I might be disturbing otherwise.
Yep, cell because I hate to bother anyone else in the house.
Cell. Almost every person I know uses the cell 99.999999% of the time.
Could y’all (the y’all that automatically call the cell phone) do me a favor and actually *listen *to the outgoing message on my cell phone’s voicemail, please? The one that says: “Hi! You’ve reached my cell phone. It’s not on. It won’t be on tomorrow, either. It’s not on unless I’m away from my kids or I turn it on to call someone. Unless I have specifically told you in the last 24 hours to call my cell phone, please don’t leave a message, either, because I won’t get it. Please call my home phone at xxx-xxx-xxxx so I can talk to you there. Once again, do NOT leave a voice mail, I will not get it! Thanks, and have a great day!”
I still get at least half a dozen voice mails a week. :smack:
I leave messages at both phones, letting the person know I did so. Unless, of course, they’ve told me which phone to use!
Oooh, what a dandy idea. I’ll have to do that with my cell phone!!! It may or may not work but it’s worth a try.
Pretty much always the cell, except with my parents who don’t know how to check their voicemail, and often have them off, then it’s home, and if I’m desperate, the cell.
Home first. I almost never need to talk to anyone that urgently. I wouldn’t even consider calling cell first.
Whichever one I’ve programmed into my cell.
Depends on the person, time of day, and the nature of the call.
If it’s a person who goes out a lot, I’ll call their cell. But if they’re likely to be working or busy with something more important than the reason for the call, I’ll just call them later, on their cell.
If it’s a person whose habits I don’t know well, I’ll call their home number, and pray they’re not like my roommate and me (We check our answering machine when it occours to us we ought to. This may be weekly, or every 6 months.). If it’s an urgent matter, I’ll try the cell number.
I’m pretty patient, but my eyes glazed over after the third sentence. (If my ears could glaze over, I’m sure they’d be doing that while listening to this message.) There’s no way I’m gonna catch all the nuances of your call/message-receiving circumstances, especially if this is a recording I’m hearing for the first time.
Given that your cell phone is going to be off 90+ percent of the time, it really doesn’t mean much to the caller to list the circumstances under which your phone would be capable of receiving their calls or messages. I think if you shortened it to “Hi, this is WhyNot. Please call my home phone at xxx-xxx-xxxx. This is a cell phone number, and this phone is used infrequently”, you might do a little better.
I call home first. It’s cheaper for them. If they’re not at home, I’ll call the cell. If they are, I don’t see the point in it.
Home. I find it rude to use up someone’s minutes (possibly costing them money) when I can just as easily call them at home (and not have the connection possibly sound like crap, to boot). If I can’t reach them at home, and it’s important, then I call their cell.
I intentionally have my cell phone’s voice mail shut off. I telecommute, so if I’m out of the house an hour out of the day, it’s a lot. People know my home phone number, use it if you want to get a hold of me.
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My wife and I share a “shared family minutes” plan with her parents – four phones, one pool of minutes. My FIL bitches every month about overage charges, yet my MIL has no problem call my wife to chat cell to cell, when they’re both at home. :smack:
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Home. Calls to mobiles cost more.
Depends on the person to a certain extent, but generally speaking, I call the home number.
This is more a reflection of my prejudices than anything else - I hate giving or getting calls on my cell unless I’m out of the house and have a specific (urgent) reason to contact someone. No matter how good your network, reception just isn’t as good as a landline, and the problem is doubled when you’re both on a cell.