Why do you have to own a mobile phone to join CC?
We have just tried to join the Caravan Club on line. gave all the usual details including home phone number and e-mail address then pressed the enter button. message came back "no mobile numbe"r. entered N/A pressed enter again message came back" number
has to be numeric". obvious conclusion only people with mobile phones are allowed to join the CC?
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type in any old numeric rubbish....cant have the computer saying no , can we....
of course ypu could ring and join over the phone (and tell them why...) but it wont change the system.....
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I would not think it is compulsory, I expect if you entered an appropriate number of zeros, it would accept it, or 07 and appropriate zeros. It is however advisable, as it gives the club a way of contacting you when you are touring, about possible site problems.
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Enter your home number twice if that is your only contact number
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A similar thing happens when you haven't a land line, like us. Can't apply for certain things as not able to supply that number. Pain in the preverbial!!
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The point of having a mobile number is so the Club can contact you whilst you are away from home in case of a problem with any of the sites you might be en route to. I suggest you phone the Club rather than try and do it online.
David
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The point of having a mobile number is so the Club can contact you whilst you are away from home in case of a problem with any of the sites you might be en route to. I suggest you phone the Club rather than try and do it online.
David
true, david, but not manadtory....neither is an email address (if not joining online)....
my wife is the lead member, she doesnt have a mobile phone....
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I am a bone fide member of the “Grumpy Olde Men’s Club” My wife is a lifelong registered technophobe. I use my phone to speak to friends and business associates and do not want to clog it
up with messages from people with time on their hands who want to sell me things (O2 excepted as they provide the phone service) and my wife will not have a mobile or a computer if you paid her to have one. I did think of entering my Son’s or my Daughter’s
number, But, why should you have to (Gom Syndrome coming out again) My wife is ringing on Monday to sort it out. I assume all the phone staff go off caravanning on a week-end? That is why they are only available Monday to Friday in this 24/7 world. If they
gave everyone their mobile numbers I could ring them on a weekend (Just a thought :-) ) I do not think for one minute that the club are going to throw away £48.00 plus over a £1000 in bookings over the year. (I will let you know)Ref the two red stars I was a member for a number of years but put the van on site for a season last year and being a true Yorkshire man could not see any point in paying £48.00 for a service
I did not need. We missed touring more than we thought we would and have decided to re- join. I thought (Like Pliers) it would be a case of pressing a couple of buttons on the lap top and off you go. As we GOM’s say “life is never that simple”. (What exactly
is trolling I don’t know if I am doing it, as I don’t know what it is? I Know what trawling is if that helps?) On the subject of star’s it is nice to see Firedragon and Nelliethehooker are wearing their purple stars with pride and still supporting the cause.And finally I am prepared to take my chances of a site shutting down in the time it takes from leaving one site and getting to the next, Just like I did before mobile phones where invented.
Maybe my next post should be “can anyone else remember when you used to go caravanning to get away from the telephone?” Before the mobile how many people went on holiday to Spain and thought
“I must ring home and tell them I am doing nothing” and follow it up with a picture of their dinner on a post card like they do on Face Book.4 -
We missed touring more than we thought we would and have decided to re- join. I thought (Like Pliers) it would be a case of pressing a couple of buttons on the lap top and off you go.
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Good Heavens, I don't remember posting that!
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We were away touring a couple of years ago and even after supplying our mobile no-one rung it to say the site we were about to visit had flooded....luckily we heard it on the news and found somewhere else. I'd just put a row of 0000s and see if that works.
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Ah yes just like my friends mobile which is down one of the loos at Bournemouth Airport, I don't think the CC have got through yet.
Sorry Alwaysright, this proves you really don't have to have one.
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We missed touring more than we thought we would and have decided to re- join.
I thought (Like Pliers) it would be a case of pressing a couple of buttons on the lap top and off you go.****************
Good Heavens, I don't remember posting that!Just wondered, 2 red stars, but still can't manage to join the Club...
Appologies I thought that was what you meant when you wrote "Just wondered, 2 red stars, but still can't manage to join the Club"
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I don't think there is any compulsion to provide a mobile number and if you don't think it would be in your own interest I am sure the Club will be happy to work round that. The Club won't phone you in anything other than an emergency so I don't think you need fear for your time. They have my mobile but the only time they have contacted me on that phone is when I have requested them to do so.
David
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the club have my mobile number and when we were a way one year the wardens at Tewksbury abbey rang us to say that the site was flooded and no one could use the site . this was for an overnight stop so we were able to find an alternative site. malc
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I am sure that is the case David. But it does beg the question "Why does it have to be a compulsory field for the on line application?"
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We are officially new members again and booked in at Bridlington for the end of April.
It is not that I do not have a mobile, on the contrary I have an all singing all dancing thing that does just about everything and would run my life if I let it. But from experience I have found that when you hand out your number to large companies
you start to get calls and messages from people and places you have never heard of, then when you are in the middle of something important like pouring a whisky over the ice whilst watching the sun set, you have to stop and explain why you do not want to have
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Welcome back alwayswright! Its great you navigated the mobile phone hurdle and rejoined regardless.
As DavidKlyne quite rightly posts we only use mobiles in emergencies such as those also mentioned. We found having them extremely useful for those wanting to go to Rowntree Park over the Christmas and New Year period when it was completely flooded.
But you are also quite right in noting you do not have to provide a mobile phone number. Our online joining system, as well as the whole website is being updated and I have forwarded on your valuable feedback about there being a glitch when trying "not"
to enter this as a field when joining.All feedback and comments are great and so useful to us when doing upgrades of our system. Thanks for your input (and humour) on this issue.
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Hi Helen, Thank you, it is good to be back!
We have just booked most of our summer get aways mainly around Yorkshire, wales and Cornwall. well impressed with the new booking system very fast and efficient. It would be better if the affiliated sites could be incorporated in the payment system some
how?You have caught me with the mention of York (My all time favourite site) I have still got to book this one for after June when the river fishing season begins.
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Alwayswright, great stuff. My mobile is for my use, business, and convenience, not anyone else's. I never give out my mobile number to anyone. If the online form insists on the mobile number field to be filled in, can I suggest that a selection
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"I'd just put a row of 0000s and see if that works."
If it was a good computer system then the programmer will have thought of that and tell you that the format was incorrect.
But like I said, if it was a good system.......
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Nice to know the dinosaur is alive and well.
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Yes I must agree, I cannot see why people are so anti. It is after all for your benifit if there is a problem with the next site while you are on route, or staying on a non CC whilst touring. Wardens will also ring you if there is a problem with your van while on site. If you are worried about folk getting your number, you would never be able to call anyone other than a friend, or withhold your identity as any large firm or organisations are going to have call loggers to collect numbers for future use.
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Yes I must agree, I cannot see why people are so anti. It is after all for your benifit if there is a problem with the next site while you are on route, or staying on a non CC whilst touring. Wardens will also ring you if there is a problem with your van
while on site. If you are worried about folk getting your number, you would never be able to call anyone other than a friend, or withhold your identity as any large firm or organisations are going to have call loggers to collect numbers for future use....+1
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Yes I must agree, I cannot see why people are so anti. It is after all for your benifit if there is a problem with the next site while you are on route, or staying on a non CC whilst touring. Wardens will also ring you if there is a problem with your van
while on site. If you are worried about folk getting your number, you would never be able to call anyone other than a friend, or withhold your identity as any large firm or organisations are going to have call loggers to collect numbers for future use.As I stated earlier my mobile is for speaking to friends, familly and business associates. I only call these people on my mobile that way do not get nuisance calls and texts. If I do get unknown callers (Cold callers) I contact O2 and report them. It has
worked for me so far and I in tend to keep it this way. I have no problem with giving my number to wardens when booking a site such as York where problems can and inevitably do occur.0
