I am looking for a geographical alternative to the Daily Telegraph shopping offers please: 0844 249 8096which is charged at 5p per minute!

superfish wrote on Nov 29^th, 2013 at 8:29pm:

The question here must be, as CJT-80 says, which company operates the number? Different reader offers for a particular publication can be operated by different companies. Does it not state on the advertisement what company it is? 

The cost of calling the number is 5.105 pence per minute plus a Call Set-up fee of 13.87 pence or 15 pence from a BT line.

A Google of the 0844 number returns this product page on the Telegraph Shop website.

It doesn't identify the manufacturer or supplier. However, it's often the case that the wording of product descriptions is that supplied by the manufacturer, and therefore all retailers that list a particular product use the same wording.

With that in mind I entered a sentence from the description into Google: Now thanks to this range of special daylight lamps, you can enjoy that same clean bright natural sunlight effect all year round.

This returns a number of pages from retailers selling the same product. A few are as follows:

• Amazon, sold by Clifford James.
• Homes & Property which mentions that these lamps are by Clifford James.
• Mirror Offers which says the item is by Clifford James and gives the number 020 3170 0137 for orders (quoting mirshop/BRASSLAMPS).
• Clifford James (brass model). Clifford James also has a silver model.

I think we get the idea - the item appears to be supplied by Clifford James which is a part of BVG-Airflo Group Limited.

Type into the Company Name box of our search engine for some numbers for this company (you will probably have to explain that you are calling about the Telegraph Reader Offer as they may assume you are placing an order as a customer of Clifford James, which might cost more).