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Vonage V-Phone Hands On

ronscall — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:51:36 EDT

I presently subscribe to Vonage and recently got info about the V-phone. I tried to order one but the form would never accept my request. It kept routing me back to the offer page. I was "told" to go to my account for the order. There was NOTHING relating to the gadget on that page that I could find. I even called the special telephone number and got routed all over the place with no success. I wanted to send an email but could never find a message box to do so. The ones that I found addresed other subjects. You make it VERY HARD to buy one of these adapters. Not user friendly at all. Wow, I bet that you have already lost a lot of potential customers. Just found this site by accident.

ronscall

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sdchap — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:28:07 EDT

I already have 2 Vonage accounts (home & biz).

According to the Vonage rep I spoke with, there is NO need to buy another account. The V-phone can simply be configured to work with your existing Vonage account(s).

sdchap

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waitingforvizzini — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:10:48 EDT

there is absolutely no reason to buy this device if you have to purchase another plan as an existing customer. if they force you to pay 15 bucks a month for it anyway. I called them and they are recalcitrant on this point

waitingforvizzini

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swolb-eganov — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:56:21 EDT

Two more great Internet-based ideas (VoIP and soft-phones) being mindlessly corrupted by a profit-hungry company. I can bitch and moan -- I'm a subscriber. I was really 'hoping and praying' Vonage's consistency would screw up their soft-phone idea by making us buy yet another account.... and they DID!

If you think they're messing up the free unlimited calls concept, try using their directory assistance or (so-called) customer service!

And oh, lest we forget, all the dropped calls we've had in the last 4 months! Their retarded corporate jingle isn't the only thing that's irritating.

swolb-eganov

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ninjamurf — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:07:05 EDT

my thoughts exactly heh3d. I'm still pissed at Vonage for "forcing" us to pay for an additional account just to use a softphone...the very REASON for the existence of VoIP! They've actually done the hard part, switching our regular old phone over to a digital router, but at the same time they've taken away our ability to use the computer to make those same calls?! WTF Vonage?!?!?

ninjamurf

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crazybelgian — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:14:45 EDT

this is great! I travel to Europe all the time and with this thingy family could reach me there on my home phone number!

crazybelgian

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TheZodiac — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:59:08 EDT

I Want to buy one - and evne though I am signed into my Vonage account, there is an unavoidable option to sign up for another VOIP account. I guess I will have to call them.

TheZodiac

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uhm...Bob — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:56:12 EDT

When they make a SD card version that can be used in Palms & Pocket PC's, then they'll really have my attention.

uhm...Bob

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heh3d — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:42:58 EDT

So does this little bad boy work with my regular Vonage account, or do I have to pay them an extra $10/m for a "softphone" line in order to use it?

heh3d