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8 Reasons Why GrandCentral.com is a Must-Have Tool

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I thought Grand Central was great. One number for life. Awesome. Then they sent me an email informing me that they had to switch my number (which I printed onto business cards). I never went back.

I hate to say it but I have to disagree. In the 6 or so months that we had an active GC number, we would just receive endless wrong-number messages. Perhaps there are some settings or options I neglected to set that would cut down on this?

It has a spam folder that allows you to spam out certain numbers... hope this helps.

It obviously is not a perfect tool -- there's no such thing. But the value that it has coupled with the fact that it's free make it a very strong alternative to GotVmail.com and other options for storing and tracking voicemail's.

It's also pretty new. It will be even cooler this time next year.

thanks for the reply. IIRC, the problem for us was that the messages came from different numbers every time.. it's like GC yanked the phone number from someone that didn't pay their bills.

but yeah, nothing is perfect.

So you inherited somebody else's debt collector problem. That's hilarious! I'm actually laughing as I write this because I know exactly what it feels like to have debt collectors calling. In fact, I just got a nice, shiny new letter from my friendly local attorney.

My 1st startup didn't go so well, nor was it structured well. So this summer I'm doing door-to-door sales to get out of debt. Kind of lame. I'd much rather work on my next startup, but I want my wife to stay sane....

At least you still have the desire to start a new co, the experience didn't kill your spirit!

It took a while to get to this point. I ended up taking a (sort of) normal job after the experience. I had quasi-ownership in the company, but I wouldn't say it was a startup.

It helped me to get back my confidence.

GrandCentral is great, but I frequently have issues with the sound quality when I retrieve voicemails over the phone. There will be frequent segments of garbled sound and I have to replay the messages repeatedly to get all the info.

GrandCentral has been down for almost 8 hours now.

I use Grand Central and it's great.

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