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Old May 30th, 2011 (12:14 AM).
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I made it pretty far in the game being careful not to exchange phone numbers, but I must not have been paying attention cause I have an entry for Jose the bird keeper. I hate those annoying phone calls and unfortunately phone numbers can't be deleted. Does anyone else to find this unfair?
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Old May 30th, 2011 (12:19 AM).
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I find it extremely irritating, my sister added bunch of phone numbers after randomly battling trainers and I nearly threw my DS at her! I didn't want to have people ringing me ever two seconds like they do now! -.-
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Old May 30th, 2011 (12:30 AM).
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I find it irritating, especially since I went and added EVERY possible phone number thinking they were all going to rematch or give items. Wrong, now I have Irwin always stalking me and Huey raving about his Poliwrath every 5 minutes.

When I do my second playthrough, I will definitely make a note of which trainers to add, if any.
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Old May 30th, 2011 (12:42 AM).
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I don't mind the fact that I can't delete my phone numbers. Free rematches and items are always welcome, even though some of the calls are a bit annoying.
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Old May 30th, 2011 (1:57 AM).
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Old May 30th, 2011 (2:31 AM).
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TBH I don't really find it annoying - only if say there's been a particular run of calls from the same person but that doesn't happen often for me. (The only exception is calls from the in-game Mum because fsfngfngnsjfkjdsn I do not want your berries I can't even send over to 5th gen seriously what). But even Joey doesn't really annoy me - he doesn't call me that often about his top percentage rattata and I find it more amusing than annoying.

I do agree that the ability to delete numbers would have been nice all the same...oh well? You can always ignore the call I guess.
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Old May 30th, 2011 (4:34 AM).
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I don't find all of the calls annoying. The free item and rematch calls don't annoy me, but the ones that just call you to tell you about their Rattata get annoying after a while. .___.;
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Old May 30th, 2011 (4:35 AM).
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I do kind of find it quite annoying too, but I never pick them up anyway.
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Old May 30th, 2011 (6:53 AM).
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It is kinda annoying, but i welcome the fact that some idiot out there is willing to get beat up by me ^^.
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Old May 30th, 2011 (7:31 AM).
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Old May 30th, 2011 (8:00 AM).
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I hate adding them. My first playthrough I added all of them, but in my second, third, fourth, and later playthroughs I made sure not to add anyone, and when I did if they call I just wouldnt touch the PokeGear.
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Old June 2nd, 2011 (8:31 AM).
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I agree that we should be able to delete numbers. Having someone call every two seconds to talk about something pointless is annoying. I'd keep the gym leader #'s, Elm's and Mothers numbers only if I could xD
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Old June 2nd, 2011 (8:42 AM).
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It really annoys me too ;_;
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Old June 2nd, 2011 (12:45 PM).
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I think they just don't want us deleting key numbers... Like Oak's. OAK DOESN'T DO ANYTHING WHEN YOU CALL HIM, REALLY. YOU CAN ALWAYS CHECK HOW MANY POKEMON ARE IN YOUR DEX IF YOU JUST WASTE YOUR TIME OPENING IT INSTEAD OF WASTING YOUR TIME CALLING THE GUY WHO TELLS YOU WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW.

But they could always block deleting certain numbers... Put a block on Mom's Elm's, Oak's, and some others, let you add and delete the others as you wish.

Nintendo has no creativity XD
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Old June 2nd, 2011 (12:59 PM).
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Some of them do let you rematch... I added all numbers possible in the game. I don't find it that annoying because I never pick up the phone anyway :P
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Old June 2nd, 2011 (10:26 PM).
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I HATE it!!!!!!!
In my old HG game that I pre ordered a year ago (it got stolen) I gave everyone my nhumber anjd hated how much they called me :(

Even my "mother" calls me a lot buying me stupid berries that I hardly ever use.
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Old June 6th, 2011 (4:17 PM).
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Uck, I just hate the random people all "HAY U, I FINDE GEODUUUUUUUDDESSSSS" and others. I think you also can't delete because of importent NPCs like your mom, Professer Elm, ect.
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Old June 6th, 2011 (10:57 PM). Edited June 7th, 2011 by Sarcastic Prince.
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I don't mind. My family runs a successful business so we get tons of calls each day.
Therefore, in game calls don't bother me at all.

I find people who think that in game calls are annoying immature.
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Old June 6th, 2011 (11:02 PM).
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I'd want to do this only so that I could delete Joey's number...
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Old June 8th, 2011 (2:30 PM).
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It is annoying, those stupid trainers that keep calling me. I just walk in a building and walk back out to avoid that annoying beep. But I got used to it eventually.
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Old June 11th, 2011 (9:42 AM).
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It was annoying the first time around. Second time around I knew whose numbers to get and who to avoid like the plague. I still wish you had the option to delete numbers, that would've saved me a lot of headache the first time around.
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Old June 11th, 2011 (12:33 PM).
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Its very irritating during my breeding and training exercise. I'm gonna delete it someday after I got bored and all.
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Old June 11th, 2011 (12:53 PM).
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I have registered every single person's number in the pokegear that I've came across (in which case most if not all possible numbers), and I don't get called enough to irritate me. I get called about once every couple of hours, so I don't have any issues with it. If I had to say one thing about it? it'd be Joey.
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Old June 12th, 2011 (2:50 AM).
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I naively registered a few numbers having no idea what I was getting myself into, then I was told it was THE WORST THING EVER which was soon shown by Joey and his Rattata. I only ended up with 4, but I've still got quite a lot of calls; I'm just glad I didn't end up registering more numbers.
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Old June 13th, 2011 (7:55 PM).
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Jose the bird keeper
Lol.

Yes, I think it's completely unfair that we can't delete. It's just so annoying. It was cool back in the original but I only found myself re-challenging trainers if I happened to be near. I would never go out of my way to run all the way across the map just to re-battle. Ewwwww.
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