popular talk show seems to favor Magic Jack over Ooma

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Re: popular talk show seems to favor Magic Jack over Ooma

Post by lbmofo » Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:34 pm

Zindar wrote:Clark Howard was plugging Magic Jack again on today's show saying how $40 / year is a good deal. (I pay $0 / year with Ooma.) I still have yet to personally ever heam him talk about Ooma.
For most new Ooma users, it is $3.47 per month for RRF right now.

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Re: popular talk show seems to favor Magic Jack over Ooma

Post by Zindar » Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:51 am

Well that's a good point... that brings it to $41.64 / month, slightly more expensive that Magic Jack. Unless you can find the original ooma for sale somewhere, like I have.

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Re: popular talk show seems to favor Magic Jack over Ooma

Post by lbmofo » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:23 pm

$41.64 per year. MagicJack isn't even in the same league as Ooma when it comes to quality.

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Re: popular talk show seems to favor Magic Jack over Ooma

Post by roadshow » Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:57 pm

lbmofo wrote:$41.64 per year. MagicJack isn't even in the same league as Ooma when it comes to quality.
AGREED!!

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Re: popular talk show seems to favor Magic Jack over Ooma

Post by fonfellow » Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:43 pm

I don't know the particulars of this case, but radio announcers are often paid a "promotional consideration" to talk about a product. It's like a commercial except seemingly a more seamless part of a broadcast. I think many talk show hosts do the same thing.

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Re: popular talk show seems to favor Magic Jack over Ooma

Post by Zindar » Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:49 am

lbmofo wrote:$41.64 per year.
Oops... yes, that's what I meant.

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Re: popular talk show seems to favor Magic Jack over Ooma

Post by Bob859 » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:44 pm

Clark Howard recently promoted ooma here:

http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-h ... ort/nCR3Y/

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Re: popular talk show seems to favor Magic Jack over Ooma

Post by lbmofo » Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:33 pm

Bobby B just posted a link to a CNN piece...Clark Howard is liking Ooma. http://am.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/03/how- ... -explains/

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