Switch to Vonage via Circuit City - Get $200 to spend instantly

CocoGdog

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I saw this online and want to go switch today. My Verizon land-line bill was over $50 and I am never around the apartment to make any calls. You have to go to Circuit City to sign up.

 

anthcla81

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do you have a link to the details of this? I checked cc.com and vonage, and dont see anything mentioning it. I know ive read about other people getting the deal, but never saw the specifics
 

Scarpozzi

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I bought a PAP2 a long time ago from Staples and was able to get a rebate on it... Did anyone ever figure out what to do with these things after they were unlocked? Mine's been sitting on the shelf.
 

elph

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Regarding the PAP2 - Mine is hooked up and giving me free incoming calls with a seattle number and $13 every 90 days got me free outgoing calls to several countries. Great little device.

However, it seems like OP is talking about a different deal.
 

ColemontHD

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Originally posted by: CocoGdog
I saw this online and want to go switch today. My Verizon land-line bill was over $50 and I am never around the apartment to make any calls. You have to go to Circuit City to sign up.

So how do you go about doing this? Go to CC and ask them about the Vonage thing? What if I dont have a lan line to switch from, can i just be a new phone person who wants to sign up for Vonage and get the $200, btw, is this $200 to use in the store or something?

Is there a link for this special?
 

royaldank

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I believe other stores are doing this promo told. A buddy said Microcenter was doing it.
 

jimmybgood

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Originally posted by: elph
Regarding the PAP2 - Mine is hooked up and giving me free incoming calls with a seattle number and $13 every 90 days got me free outgoing calls to several countries. Great little device.

However, it seems like OP is talking about a different deal.



Yes, it's different deal, but I'm more interested in this one. Is one of those "several countries" the US of A and who do you send the $13 to?
 

CocoGdog

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Originally posted by: CocoGdog
I saw this online and want to go switch today. My Verizon land-line bill was over $50 and I am never around the apartment to make any calls. You have to go to Circuit City to sign up.

So how do you go about doing this? Go to CC and ask them about the Vonage thing? What if I dont have a lan line to switch from, can i just be a new phone person who wants to sign up for Vonage and get the $200, btw, is this $200 to use in the store or something?

Is there a link for this special?[/quote]

I completed this deal yesterday.

1. Went to Circuit City
2. Signed up for Vonage Service for $14.99 a month ($29.99 activation).
a. They allowed me to keep my existing phone number
b. You have to sign up with your real address for 911 service
c. You need a broadband service, preferably cable because DSL uses PPPoe and you need to jump
through hurdles sometimes to get it to work with DSL, but it's worth it.

3. Purchase this phone Phone
a. It comes with a rebate.
b. It's a 5.8 gigahertz, and you can add extra handsets
4. Received $200 Gift Card from Circuit City (no strings attached) instantly

5. Went home hooked it up, charged the phone, signed into email to confirm service, and bam -
phone is working next day.
6. It takes 20 days for your old phone number to be totally free of Verizon or SBC or whatever old company you're with.

So in the end it was...

$14.99 x 12 months = $180.00 - Free $200 Gift Card = 1 year of phone service for almost free


Also, you can get this USB thing that connects to your computer at work or at play to make free calls -
VONAGE USB 256mb Key.. It is free after rebate, so get it on the same receipt if you want. I heard good things and bad things about it, but it's free and a cool gadget to play with.
 

Helical

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Originally posted by: CocoGdog

I completed this deal yesterday.

1. Went to Circuit City
2. Signed up for Vonage Service for $14.99 a month ($29.99 activation).
a. They allowed me to keep my existing phone number
b. You have to sign up with your real address for 911 service
c. You need a broadband service, preferably cable because DSL uses PPPoe and you need to jump
through hurdles sometimes to get it to work with DSL, but it's worth it.

3. Purchase this phone Phone
a. It comes with a rebate.
b. It's a 5.8 gigahertz, and you can add extra handsets
4. Received $200 Gift Card from Circuit City (no strings attached) instantly

5. Went home hooked it up, charged the phone, signed into email to confirm service, and bam -
phone is working next day.
6. It takes 20 days for your old phone number to be totally free of Verizon or SBC or whatever old company you're with.

So in the end it was...

$14.99 x 12 months = $180.00 - Free $200 Gift Card = 1 year of phone service for almost free


That is so incredibly hot. Makes me wish I didn't have Vonage already - been with them for well over a year now on the $14.99 plan and am very, very happy. Wish I could say the same for my flaky Comcast service...

Cash in, folks!

 

gordita

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yes, the other forum has a boatload of info on this deal.
This is just so incredibly tempting but four things keep me from switching over.
1. I have two dish receivers who must be connected to a phone line 24/7. I'm not sure how vonage works with Dish........anyone have any info on forums I can hit?

2. I've been using a VoIP device since the last 5 yrs which has a modem and I use a dialup account to dial onto the net. once I'm connected, I just call the other device (my parents overseas, in asia do the same procedure) and bam.......free talking for hours....
with vonage, I don't know if I can use this device to dial out...

3. i very much need to use my existing phone lines in my townhouse, so I will need to disconnect the frontier phone line coming into the house........I don't know how much hassle this would be.....

4. last but not the least, thankfully, I don't use my home phone much but I do use bottorrent a lot and I don't know how this affects my BW.....
anyone wanna chime in?
 

vetteguy

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Originally posted by: Helical
Originally posted by: CocoGdog

I completed this deal yesterday.

1. Went to Circuit City
2. Signed up for Vonage Service for $14.99 a month ($29.99 activation).
a. They allowed me to keep my existing phone number
b. You have to sign up with your real address for 911 service
c. You need a broadband service, preferably cable because DSL uses PPPoe and you need to jump
through hurdles sometimes to get it to work with DSL, but it's worth it.

3. Purchase this phone Phone
a. It comes with a rebate.
b. It's a 5.8 gigahertz, and you can add extra handsets
4. Received $200 Gift Card from Circuit City (no strings attached) instantly

5. Went home hooked it up, charged the phone, signed into email to confirm service, and bam -
phone is working next day.
6. It takes 20 days for your old phone number to be totally free of Verizon or SBC or whatever old company you're with.

So in the end it was...

$14.99 x 12 months = $180.00 - Free $200 Gift Card = 1 year of phone service for almost free


That is so incredibly hot. Makes me wish I didn't have Vonage already - been with them for well over a year now on the $14.99 plan and am very, very happy. Wish I could say the same for my flaky Comcast service...

Cash in, folks!
Couldn't you just cancel and re-up? Or is this only for truly "new" customers?

 

isekii

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Mar 16, 2001
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Originally posted by: gordita
yes, the other forum has a boatload of info on this deal.
This is just so incredibly tempting but four things keep me from switching over.
1. I have two dish receivers who must be connected to a phone line 24/7. I'm not sure how vonage works with Dish........anyone have any info on forums I can hit?

2. I've been using a VoIP device since the last 5 yrs which has a modem and I use a dialup account to dial onto the net. once I'm connected, I just call the other device (my parents overseas, in asia do the same procedure) and bam.......free talking for hours....
with vonage, I don't know if I can use this device to dial out...

3. i very much need to use my existing phone lines in my townhouse, so I will need to disconnect the frontier phone line coming into the house........I don't know how much hassle this would be.....

4. last but not the least, thankfully, I don't use my home phone much but I do use bottorrent a lot and I don't know how this affects my BW.....
anyone wanna chime in?

Dish doesn't need to be connected to the Phone lines.
Mine's never been connected to the landline ever.

All my programming comes in through the satellite :p
 

CocoGdog

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Quote: "yes, the other forum has a boatload of info on this deal. "

I tried to find other information on FW and SD but didn't see it. I am trying to get as much rebates on it as possible.
 

anthcla81

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Originally posted by: isekii
Dish doesn't need to be connected to the Phone lines.
Mine's never been connected to the landline ever.

doesnt need to be, but some do need to be connected to a to avoid a $4.99/month/receiver fee, if you have one of the dual tuners(522/622/625/whichever models they released since i left that horrible job january of last year).

but to answer the original question, as far as i know(again, this is info from january of this year, but knowing dish, it hasnt been fixed), the dish receiver likely wont communicate through voip
 

dealsqueezer

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Your dish receiver do not need to be connected to phone line unless you want to order programs, watch pay per views through your dish remote

You can always pickup your phone and order them by calling dish
 

isekii

Lifer
Mar 16, 2001
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Originally posted by: anthcla81
Originally posted by: isekii
Dish doesn't need to be connected to the Phone lines.
Mine's never been connected to the landline ever.

doesnt need to be, but some do need to be connected to a to avoid a $4.99/month/receiver fee, if you have one of the dual tuners(522/622/625/whichever models they released since i left that horrible job january of last year).

but to answer the original question, as far as i know(again, this is info from january of this year, but knowing dish, it hasnt been fixed), the dish receiver likely wont communicate through voip

Um.. you're charged 4.99 for the Receivers regardless. Whether they're connected or not.
 

Elfear

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Hmmm. After seeing that the $14.99 plan has only 500 minutes of long-distance AND local calls it doesn't seem as hot.
 

anthcla81

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no, i'm talking about an additional charge. Like i said, its not all receivers.

Theres the $4.99 for the receiver rental/access fee, for each receiver beyond your first. Then for certain dual tuners, theres a $4.99 fee if its not connected to a phone line(since technically it operates as 2 receivers, so theres not a 3rd $4.99 fee). Dont want to turn this into a dish network fee discussion thread heh, check out their site..its buried somewhere in the fine print
 

dmw16

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Just got back from circuit city. I signed up for the $14.99 plan (actually $17.88 after tax and fees) and we made out!

I got the Linksys PAP2 and $137 ($200 - $67 for the PAP2) gift card and $110 in mail in rebates. So I walked outta there with $247 worth of gift card and rebates, plus $67 worth of hardware. Not too bad. I bought a wireless router and wireless gaming adapter for my 360 because the GF was tired of tripping over the ethernet cables running all over. What a deal. Plus Im saving $10/month over verizon and have more features.
 

cpals

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Originally posted by: CocoGdog


Also, you can get this USB thing that connects to your computer at work or at play to make free calls -
VONAGE USB 256mb Key.. It is free after rebate, so get it on the same receipt if you want. I heard good things and bad things about it, but it's free and a cool gadget to play with.

Just a heads up, but from the reviews on the circuit city website, this is not a good deal. Looks like you would have to buy another phone number to use this device and cannot use the same number.
 

Zahriya

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Is this deal dead? went to CC today, and they said this deal was over last week? True?
 

bhess

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I just went to 2 CC today and one lied to me and told me it was extended but didn't have a pap. So he sent me to another store and they pulled it up and it is over.

She said it might be back soon though.