Re: Annoying ooma marketing message
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:57 am
I am, my words were probably stronger than the intent.WayneDsr wrote:Nope, this is my opinion, please be tolerant of me!
Wayne
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I am, my words were probably stronger than the intent.WayneDsr wrote:Nope, this is my opinion, please be tolerant of me!
Wayne
This isn't exactly true for all the carriers, AT&T doesn't advertise, neither does Sprint (but I can't say 100% for sure for Sprint as I've not had them in a year).quebert wrote:This is par for the course, when I had Verizon wireless, I paid $100 a month and every person who called and left a voice mail got "thank you for calling Verizon Wireless" at the end. Annoying? maybe, but it's common so I don't see the big deal. Even if you are a premier member, every cell phone provider I can think of lets every caller who leaves a voice mail hear who the company is.
You are right, but both do for their cell phones, but I think it varies from place to place. I know with Sprint depending on what AC you're calling, you can get a totally different voice mail system.iSEPIC wrote:This isn't exactly true for all the carriers, AT&T doesn't advertise, neither does Sprint (but I can't say 100% for sure for Sprint as I've not had them in a year).quebert wrote:This is par for the course, when I had Verizon wireless, I paid $100 a month and every person who called and left a voice mail got "thank you for calling Verizon Wireless" at the end. Annoying? maybe, but it's common so I don't see the big deal. Even if you are a premier member, every cell phone provider I can think of lets every caller who leaves a voice mail hear who the company is.
I don't think you're understanding who hears the marketing message... it' not the caller that hears it, I'm the one who hears it after monitoring a call. I don't need to be sold on ooma because I've already bought it. The caller hears nothing.quebert wrote:You are right, but both do for their cell phones, but I think it varies from place to place. I know with Sprint depending on what AC you're calling, you can get a totally different voice mail system.iSEPIC wrote:This isn't exactly true for all the carriers, AT&T doesn't advertise, neither does Sprint (but I can't say 100% for sure for Sprint as I've not had them in a year).quebert wrote:This is par for the course, when I had Verizon wireless, I paid $100 a month and every person who called and left a voice mail got "thank you for calling Verizon Wireless" at the end. Annoying? maybe, but it's common so I don't see the big deal. Even if you are a premier member, every cell phone provider I can think of lets every caller who leaves a voice mail hear who the company is.
If the short message a caller hears after leaving me a message leads to them looking into Ooma and possibly signing up. I'm all for it, I really REALLY want Ooma to stick around. And sadly nobody I know has even heard of it. If they were to offer an add-on package to chop the message off, I think everybody would win.
Actually the caller does hear it if they press # to review and confirm their message before sending it. Most callers just hang up after recording their message and don't hear it...The caller hears nothing...
Hmm, I never hear that message????? You DO know that you can blacklist those telemarketers, don't you?mrbig wrote:Thanks for the answer Wayne. It's actually something that's annoying for ME to have to listen to every time a message is left (generally from a telemarketer).WayneDsr wrote:I have noticed though, that rarely anyone hears it, normally they hang right up after leaving a voicemail.
Wayne