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Or you could just use apps like session that never require a phone number in the first place.

by resuresu 3y ago

edent 3y ago
How do I get my local pizza place or international delivery network to sign up to a new app?
- Fnoord 3y ago
  You don't. You order via their website and give them your e-mail address instead. For The Netherlands, I always give out the fake number 0612345678. A lot of people do that, and some Dutch websites recognize it as invalid. But American and Chinese websites accept it fine.
  - edent 3y ago
    That's great. Until the pizza guy needs to ring because he can't find my address.
    - Fnoord 3y ago
      The pizza guy knows 0612345678 is fake (every Dutch person knows). Did I mention they do get my throwaway email address?
      - edent 3y ago
        That's nice. But how do they ask for directions to your house if they're lost? Sometimes - and I know this makes me unusual - I want to receive a phone call. A delivery driver letting me know they'll be early / late. A Freecycler letting me know where their house is. Someone calling me about my lost cat. If I give a fake number, I cannot speak to people.
        Fnoord 3y ago
        A pizza deliverer getting lost is from the time before they were using these bikes with GPS and Google Maps. I've been living on this address for almost 10 years now, and only once had a package (never food) been delivered wrong (at an adjacent street, same number). Unfortunately it contained about 500-800 EUR worth of material, but I received it from that neighbor 1 week later. Now, that is my situation. If you have some kind of complex address which isn't clear on Google Maps then perhaps having decent contact details is more clever. But I still have two concerns on your argument: 1) in my example, they have my e-mail address already so they can contact me 2) even if you get your pizza delivered wrong, that is the problem of the deliverer. Not yours. Once I had my neighbors who got a cold pizza delivered. They called up and got a new one, and gave the old one to us (I think also some to other neighbors). We put it in parts in the mini oven we had back then and enjoyed our free pizza. Which ended up as our favorite from that specific pizzeria.

Or you could just use apps like session that never require a phone number in the first place.

edent 3y ago

How do I get my local pizza place or international delivery network to sign up to a new app?

Fnoord 3y ago
You don't. You order via their website and give them your e-mail address instead. For The Netherlands, I always give out the fake number 0612345678. A lot of people do that, and some Dutch websites recognize it as invalid. But American and Chinese websites accept it fine.
- edent 3y ago
  That's great. Until the pizza guy needs to ring because he can't find my address.
  - Fnoord 3y ago
    The pizza guy knows 0612345678 is fake (every Dutch person knows). Did I mention they do get my throwaway email address?
    - edent 3y ago
      That's nice. But how do they ask for directions to your house if they're lost? Sometimes - and I know this makes me unusual - I want to receive a phone call. A delivery driver letting me know they'll be early / late. A Freecycler letting me know where their house is. Someone calling me about my lost cat. If I give a fake number, I cannot speak to people.
      - Fnoord 3y ago
        A pizza deliverer getting lost is from the time before they were using these bikes with GPS and Google Maps. I've been living on this address for almost 10 years now, and only once had a package (never food) been delivered wrong (at an adjacent street, same number). Unfortunately it contained about 500-800 EUR worth of material, but I received it from that neighbor 1 week later. Now, that is my situation. If you have some kind of complex address which isn't clear on Google Maps then perhaps having decent contact details is more clever. But I still have two concerns on your argument: 1) in my example, they have my e-mail address already so they can contact me 2) even if you get your pizza delivered wrong, that is the problem of the deliverer. Not yours. Once I had my neighbors who got a cold pizza delivered. They called up and got a new one, and gave the old one to us (I think also some to other neighbors). We put it in parts in the mini oven we had back then and enjoyed our free pizza. Which ended up as our favorite from that specific pizzeria.