{"id":787,"date":"2026-10-12T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/help\/lists-bad-numbers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:09:21","slug":"lists-bad-numbers","status":"publish","type":"rd_doc","link":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/help\/lists\/lists-bad-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Numbers list"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What it is<\/h2>\n<p>Bad Numbers is a list RealDialer keeps for you. It holds contacts with no number left to call: every number they have is dead, belongs to someone else, or is one your account may not call. These people are better worked by door knocking or mail.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to find it<\/h2>\n<p>Lists &gt; Lists panel &gt; Bad Numbers, marked with a lock icon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"rd-shot rd-shot-app\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/realdialer-help-lists-bad-numbers.webp\" alt=\"The Bad Numbers list: Find Bad Numbers here\" width=\"1440\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>The Bad Numbers list: Find Bad Numbers here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Steps<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Open <strong>Lists<\/strong> and find <strong>Bad Numbers<\/strong> in the Lists panel.<\/li>\n<li>Click it to see who is on it.<\/li>\n<li>To get a contact back into calling, skip trace them from the Lists page to look for a working number.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Contacts join and leave this list on their own. Nobody marks them by hand.<\/li>\n<li>The list only shows up in the panel once the first contact on your account has no number left to call.<\/li>\n<li>When a contact gets a number that works, they come off the list.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot rename, tag, archive or merge it, and you cannot put it in a campaign. The Dialer will not start a session on it, because nothing on it can be dialed.<\/li>\n<li>If you already had your own list called Bad Numbers, RealDialer names its list Bad Numbers (unreachable) instead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Numbers is a list RealDialer keeps for you. It holds contacts with no number left to call: every number they have is dead, belongs to someone else, or is one your account may not call. These people are better worked by door knocking or mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1440,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_rd_doc_route":"\/lists","_rd_doc_source_id":"lists-bad-numbers","_rd_doc_checked":"2026-10-12","_rd_doc_meta_description":"Bad Numbers is a list RealDialer keeps for you. It holds contacts with no number left to call: every number they have is dead, belongs to someone else, or is one your account may not call. These people are better worked by door knocking or mail.","footnotes":""},"rd_doc_category":[18],"class_list":["post-787","rd_doc","type-rd_doc","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rd_doc_category-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rd_doc"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc\/787\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rd_doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realdialer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rd_doc_category?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}