Comments on: Skipping Voicemail Greetings: One – Star / Pound

By: Bil_

Bil_ — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:36:48 +0000

Hey, nice post, and I hear what you are saying about methodology for skipping when YOU are the caller, but how about the other side of the coin? Here’s a suggestion: Start your VM with “Hi you’ve reached NAME, you can bypass this message at anytime by pressing [#,1,*,whatever]. I can’t take your call…”

We were told to do this @ a company I worked for, and man, what a difference! Also, those who call you most (and therefor have the highest chance of being ANNOYED by the wrong button) will begin to remember what yours is! Just a thought.

Sadly, I was actually searching for a way to turn off the completely USELESS automated lady on my AT&T voicemail who insists on telling EACH CALLER they can leave a message!!! No *&@#! get a clue! (Sorry for venting…happy voicemailing!)

By: Brett Walker

Brett Walker — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:00:30 +0000

Hi-
Please update this post. I got here with a Google search for
~skip OR ~bypass voicemail greeting at&t verizon sprint press 1

I have an AT&T business phone. If you call me and get the greeting, pressing ’1′ prompts you to enter a password. I also emailed/commented at AlexKing.org’s 2006 post about the same topic.

Please consider updating at the top:
http://csharpcomputi…s/lookup.jsp
lets you lookup phone providers by number.
Other sites like fonefinder.net function, but if you’ve ported your number from one provider to another, they don’t get the update.

Given you are THE NUMBER ONE RESULT for my customized, FIND THE ANSWER query of
~skip OR ~bypass voicemail greeting at&t verizon sprint press 1,

…maybe you could update ‘Cingular’ to say AT&T.
And also update that dialing ‘1′ asks for a password (AT&T).
For Verizon, get to the password with a ‘#’
For GrandCentral (Level 3?), you can get to the password DURING THE RING portion with a ‘#’
Finally, for GrandCentral, bypass the Voicemail greeting with a ‘1′

Best,
-Brett

By: Anony Mouse

Anony Mouse — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:30:43 +0000

Say what you want about the iPhone, but they did a great job with voice mail. Besides the voice mail downloading to your phone and all the features associated with that (look up “visual voicemail”), the outgoing message simply plays for the caller with no obnoxious instructions.

By: Joey Hagedorn | dotcom » Back from San Francisco

Joey Hagedorn | dotcom » Back from San Francisco — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:35:31 +0000

[...] In order to make this blog post more useful, I will disclose first tips for skipping voicemail greetings. According to a couple of websites, one may simply press the appropriate key (varying by carrier) during a voicemail greeting to be instantly forwarded to the beep: [...]

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:50:55 +0000

Haha suckers! As soon as voicemail picks up, I hang up. Works on every carrier, landline or mobile – stand alone models too. Now if I could only figure out how to disable it on my cell phone…

By: tivoboy

tivoboy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:39:47 +0000

It is probably closer to 25%, based on a record quarter for VZ,
nobody I know though.
I’m sticking with #

argghh!

By: Jeremy Toeman

Jeremy Toeman — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:12:06 +0000

Argh… the reason is because if you do ANY OTHER ordering, then 20 or 25% (your numbers) of the time you end up inside the “enter PIN” message, and then have to call back, which is MUCH LESS efficient than this.

You wanna step outside?

By: tivoboy

tivoboy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:04:01 +0000

Sure it works, I’m just saying, if # works on every network but verizon, why wouldn’t the slogan to remember be

#,
*,
1

Actually, it could just be

#, *, there I have saved you a digit, since with JUST these two, one gets 80% of all cell carriers, with just remembering #, and the other ONE carrier, just remembering *.

i’m all about the efficiency!