Just looking at advertising paper and ad for hay rake cought my eye. Problem is I have no Idea where it is located and before I call would like general area. The area code is 740 that goes from 50 mile from me that is within dinstance to go but also up to 200+? mile and that is just too far to go. So anybody know what town this number would be from 740-262-xxxx. I found a list of exchanges on line but could not find the 262 exchange.
- Thread starter Leroy
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ptfarmer
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- Location
- San Antonio, Tx
White pages reverse phone lookup, enter in the 10 digit phone number, good for checking out phone numbers to see if they are reported as spam, fraud, etc https://www.whitepages.com/reverse_phone
I was just looking for the town that number orignated from. I am just thinking that it will be too far for me to go for a hay rake and if it is as far as I am expecting no need to bother the sellers about it. And the post came up right away on modern but not on the classic I posted on so I think they were just having problems.
K Effective
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Leroy- with cell phones and transferrable numbers, there really is no way to tell anymore. Another advantage of CraigsList, there usually is a map accompanying the ad.
Give them a call or text, about your only option today. My buddy at work has lived here in SWMI for 17 years, still shares a phone account with his Mom in Iowa, so his cell has an Iowa area code.
Grandpa used to like it when you could tell where a car was from by the number on the license plate...those good old days, I guess.
Give them a call or text, about your only option today. My buddy at work has lived here in SWMI for 17 years, still shares a phone account with his Mom in Iowa, so his cell has an Iowa area code.
Grandpa used to like it when you could tell where a car was from by the number on the license plate...those good old days, I guess.
DoubleO7
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- Location
- Crystal River, FL
I just enter the phone number in a google search.
Just looking at the results that pop up will tell you if it is land line or cell number.
As well as where it might be town wise. Sometimes a name and address will show if a land line too.
Or if it has been reported as a scam call.
Add "for sale" to the number when searching and you can see what else they have tried to sell over the years, sometimes.
If they have more ads, some might give a location in the ad.
Beats manually going to the hundreds of so called "reverse number lookups" websites that either do not tell you anything or very little unless you pay for the service.
Just looking at the results that pop up will tell you if it is land line or cell number.
As well as where it might be town wise. Sometimes a name and address will show if a land line too.
Or if it has been reported as a scam call.
Add "for sale" to the number when searching and you can see what else they have tried to sell over the years, sometimes.
If they have more ads, some might give a location in the ad.
Beats manually going to the hundreds of so called "reverse number lookups" websites that either do not tell you anything or very little unless you pay for the service.
Did not do me any good, just that the exchange was a cell phone. The 740 exchange covers from Marion or London in Central Ohio clear down to West Verginia. If it was in the Marion-London area I would be interesterd but not if it was on the Ohio river next to West Verginia. If people would just put a town name in their add they might get more calls on an item. For some things you might go 25 mile for but not 225 mile or other things you might go 500 mile for. Would not only help the buyer but allso the seller.
used red MN
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- Location
- Coon Rapids, MN
I have found before if an x is used repeatedly with no spaces as he did in his phone number example it poofs your post at least in Classic. Probably associated with things less than pure.
jimg.allentown
Well-known Member
You have nothing to lose by calling. Then you can ask the seller where he is. Then you can decide if it is too far or not. Why make a big deal out of it?
This is just an area paper the supposedly covers about 10 countys but with only 4-5 countys next to area code one direction and same in a second direction from where county is paper is printed in. My post shows up as I wrote it in modern but cannot be brought up in classic, just replies to it.
Tramway Guy
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If they didn?t want to be bothered, they wouldn?t have posted it at all...
old
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- Location
- Camdenton Missouri
Reason why the post did funny things is Leroy first posted a tripe X so Chris took that out and put in the NNNN in its place so it would work in classic.
SodBuster87
Member
You could just type the number into a google search but its only going to tell you where the number is from not necessarily where the person is from. A friend of mine lives up the road a few miles and still has a Wisconsin phone number. I have a Nisswa number even though I live 20 miles north of there and the wife has an Ortonville number and we are no where near there.
showcrop
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I get a lot of telemarketer calls from the next town. I find it hard to believe that there are really any there. They can now get and use numbers that are for any area that they ant . My Hiya tells me if it is a scam or a telemarketer. Sign up for Hiya. If you don't already have it sign up for Hiya.
Russ from MN
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- Location
- Bemidji MN
You have no way of finding out where it is if it's a cell phone, if you do a reverse search on my cell (my only phone) it would put you 200 miles from where we live, but now we are 1800 miles in the other direction. If it's a land line you might get a name and address. If your really interested, just call them!
One of the posters did give me the name of the town the number is based out of and it is a 2 hour drive one way for me so I plan on trying to call tomorrow. If it was based in a different section of the area code it could have been an 8 hour drive one way so not worth it.
Isie Shank
Member
Mine is 419-541-nnnn Willard Ohio, I have lived in Cleburne Texas for 9 years. Can not tell by phone number alone for location anymore.
curtkeiser
Member
- Location
- Beresford, South Dakota
It is not hard to go farther for something like a rake. Tat is an easy pull.
Tx Jim
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- Location
- Coyote Flats, Texas
Ditto on Marion,OH
BarnyardEngineering
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- Location
- Rochester, NY
You can't say that with any confidence. Cell numbers are not handed out by geographical area like land line phones. They are handed out randomly.
Some of the area in the area code that the number is listed for I would not go into unless I was carried dead into. And you have to figure if your towing vehical is likely to make it or not and then if driving conditions dictate a speed of 25 MPH ity takes way longer than where you can run 70MPH at all times so figure the driving time of 8 hours one way that means 3 days total and paying for 2 nights in a motel so a $250 piece would end up costing way over $500 and at that cost is prohibtivae. It is not needed bad enough to pay that kind of transportatin costs.
Andy Martin
Well-known Member
You can't put a hay rake on a trailer?
I find it interesting that we got three pages out of a reluctance to just call and find out where the rake was located.
I find it interesting that we got three pages out of a reluctance to just call and find out where the rake was located.
For your information I can only travel about 45 MPH loaded with my trailer so someplace that takes 4+ hours to get to is just not feasable and so why bother a seller if you find out you cannot get to his place. And the hay rakes are not easy to haul. My trailer is modified home made to be able to get a rake to set on to get wide enough and takes at least 14' long so they are not easy to haul. Some junk dealers would not mess with them because of the hauling was too hard to load at auctions.
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