Re: Bluetooth Adaptor - Pay Up! - Why is it?
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:36 am
Yep, that sure looks like the Ooma dongle I returned to Amazon. Personally, I'm not angry at Ooma for trying to make a hefty profit on an accessory made in China. The fact that a product can be ordered direct from China just means we would be contributing toward eliminating American and Canadian jobs that would otherwise handle the product in-between (Warehousing, procurement, possibly the printer that printed the card insert for the Ooma packaging, maybe the person who's job it is to remove the product from the bulk packaging and insert it into the retail packaging). My opinion is, the middle-man is trying to make a buck as much as you or I are.
The Ooma dongle is overpriced for what it does, but as you and I have posted, there are options. No Ooma moderator took our posts down or tried to censor us in any why for posting the links to the alternative options. They didn't offer the alternative because they want to make a nice profit on accessories and they don't want to support the alternatives for free if they can avoid it and this is reasonable.
The reason I returned my Ooma dongle is not the price, but rather it did not interface correctly with my Blackberry, it gave random CID information from my both my Blackberry and my wife's iPhone (e.g. Sometimes the Telo sent the name of the cell phone receiving the call, and sometimes it showed the number calling, but never both as stated in the current FAQ), and it occasionally caused the Telo to reboot in the middle of a received cell phone call.
The Ooma dongle is overpriced for what it does, but as you and I have posted, there are options. No Ooma moderator took our posts down or tried to censor us in any why for posting the links to the alternative options. They didn't offer the alternative because they want to make a nice profit on accessories and they don't want to support the alternatives for free if they can avoid it and this is reasonable.
The reason I returned my Ooma dongle is not the price, but rather it did not interface correctly with my Blackberry, it gave random CID information from my both my Blackberry and my wife's iPhone (e.g. Sometimes the Telo sent the name of the cell phone receiving the call, and sometimes it showed the number calling, but never both as stated in the current FAQ), and it occasionally caused the Telo to reboot in the middle of a received cell phone call.