We ask for as much information as possible because it helps us to help you.
Remember none of us get paid and we all do this in our own free time and of our own free will.
When you create a post or respond to a post, in red it reads, "Please click
here to read the 'Guide to finding geographical numbers'....
What we do with all the information we get is do a google search amongst other things. From just the 0870 on its own, it is not always possible to determine which dept or even company that use that 0870. For example, providing an address means we can do a more indepth search which may increase the odds of finding the geographical number linked to the 0870.
Your post is by no means the only post we get which has very limited information on it. In fact there have been occasions that we just get the 0870 with no other information. All this lack of information doesn't help us and I'm sure you can appreciate that if we only got one or two posts with hardly any information on it then it would be different but we actually get a lot of posts without any information as well so after a while we get fed up of trying to help people who cant read the red text, not to mention the sticky threads, or even respond to our posts for more information, as is the case here.
As mentioned in an earlier post, there is no connection between a 0870 and a geographical like a database or something we could use. Its all done via google, 192.com and a few other searches. These searches we do often can take a lot of time hence reason why we ask for as much info as possible.
Trust me when I say that if you helped other forum members out with searching for geographicals like other forum members here do, then you would also (after a while) feel the same about people posting and in some cases asking for a miracle from just a 0870 (or other non-geographical number) without as much info as possible like addresses/website, etc.