I am looking for an inexpensive way to obtain hard copies of Yellow
Pages in the major metropolitan areas throughout the US. Going
directly to the source is cost prohibitive...sometime upwards of $100
for a single book!

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 16 Jun 2005 18:25 PDT

There are a fair number of Yellow Pages online in different areas of the country.

I'm not talking about sites like Superpages.  I mean online
directories that are identical to the hard copies, with ads, listings,
indexes, cover pages, etc.

Are these of interest, or must you have hard copies?


pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by billauger-ga on 17 Jun 2005 10:53 PDT

Online yellow pages are of no use to me. I want hard copies of current
Yellow Pages from around the country. Thanks...

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 17 Jun 2005 11:23 PDT

Too bad...the online YP's are kind of a blast.

I'd try this.  

Craig's List is an online community bulletin board with a geographic
focus -- there are Craig's Lists in most major US cities.

You could post a "wanted" classified in the cities of your choice,
offering to pay someone to send you a local Yellow Pages....say $10
plus shipping.  I bet you'll get some takers.


The Craig's List for SF is here:


http://www.craigslist.org/


Within the "For Sale" are, there is a link to the "Wanted" page where
you could post a classified ad.


On the right hand side of the main page are links to Craig's Lists in
other cities.

A similar sort of deal is Freecycle:


http://www.freecycle.org/


where people GIVE STUFF AWAY.  I'm sure you'd be expected to pay postage, though.



Let me know if either of these works out.  

paf

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Clarification of Question by billauger-ga on 17 Jun 2005 13:03 PDT

Here's the deal: I work for a sales organization in the legal industry
that targets attorneys. Using Yellow Pages is the primary way we have
to gauge how much  our target attorneys spend on marketing. If you can
direct me to a national YP database that replicates what is contained
in the YP hard copies, then I can accept that. Otherwise not. Thanks.