Wow!  A whole lotta haters here.  I have a magicjack and will admit that when I first tried to set up a Calgary phone number I was left brain confused.  The available [...]

19453 – 30 bonus minutes when you buy a 120 minute card.  With double minutes for life you get a total of 270 minutes!

33261 – 50 bonus minutes on a 450 minute card.  With double minutes for life you get a total of 950 [...]]]> Here are a couple of new codes for free Tracfone bonus minutes:

19453 – 30 bonus minutes when you buy a 120 minute card.  With double minutes for life you get a total of 270 minutes!

33261 – 50 bonus minutes on a 450 minute card.  With double minutes for life you get a total of 950 minutes!

94432 – 100 bonus minutes on a 1 Year card.  With double minutes for life you get a total of 900 minutes and 1 year of service!

I received my MJ yesterday and have been considering installing it. My first question was “How do I port my current phone number onto MJ”? After reading a goodly portion of the remarks stated previously – I guess the answer is [...]]]> Reader Mindy May has this to say about Magic Jack:

I received my MJ yesterday and have been considering installing it. My first question was “How do I port my current phone number onto MJ”? After reading a goodly portion of the remarks stated previously – I guess the answer is that I don’t – can’t – no way be able to use my old phone number. So that pretty much settles what I will be doing. MJ goes back (all three of them).

My first indication that I probably wasn’t going to get along with MJ was that my account password wouldn’t work. Neither did the next two that were sent to me. And I wasn’t readily able to find a contact number. The number listed for MJ says “This number has not been activated.”

I am in Alberta. I had made a trip to the US on business. Used my Visa in the US and had the Visa fraud squad in a tizzy because I had not notified them of my travels. They blocked my Visa until I spoke with them and confirmed my US purchases. Knowing that it is possible to BLOCK a credit card is useful. It stops anyone who has the number (i.e. MJ) from putting charges on it (including me). Sometimes it is also useful to cut it in half and report it lost. You will be without a credit card for a week or so but when the new one comes, it will be a different number. So if you need to stop payments – those are two suggestions.

My MJs are going back and hopefully I will get a communication saying that they have been received and “Sorry that you were not happy with them” – also will need a credit or a payment reversal statement. To date, no charges have gone onto my credit card – so, for me, MJ has been as good as their word – first 30 days free. I will not reactivate my credit card until this is cleared up. And if it does not get resolved, I guess the puppy will get to chew on the credit card . . . . or something. I will try to stay in MJs “good books” because I may just want to use the product on a limited basis some time in the future.

I could see that a one year MJ contract would be good if you were going on holiday and wanted to call home on a daily basis – it would pay for itself after a few days. So I will compose a polite “thanks but no thanks” note to add to the parcel and stop by the post office.

Thanks for this site – it has helped me make up my mind about what to do. I suggest that right-up-front you set out additional findings on the known facts, i.e. if your phone exchange is full, you can’t get a number with your own (old) area code. I happen to know that the one that I am in is full so I would get a local number BUT it would have the new area code. Second – THEY assign you a new phone number. et cetera.

This has been an experience on a steep-learning-curve.

Mindy.

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Go ahead and give that a shot.  Let us know how it works for you!

Reader LC reports that Magic Jack canceled her number after she attempted to use her new Magic Jack as part of her business.  After they shut her down, she researched the “fine print” and discovered that they reserve the right to cancel your service if you either make more [...]]]>

Don't use Magic Jack for business!

Reader LC reports that Magic Jack canceled her number after she attempted to use her new Magic Jack as part of her business.  After they shut her down, she researched the “fine print” and discovered that they reserve the right to cancel your service if you either make more than 50 calls in a day, or call 50 different numbers.

Perhaps this is LC’s fault for not reading the fine print, but it is something potential Magic Jack customers should be aware of.

We were just sent this comment from another net forum:

Today I went to make on my magic jack and I kept getting a message to call a certain phone number about my magic jack service.

I call the number and they told me my magic jack account was suspended, abuse of their service they said.

They told me abuse was too many phone calls that lasted too long were being made on my service.

That my friend is not unlimited phone calling.

Oh, I can still get incoming calls, but wait, no one can call me as magic jack phone numbers will be long distance to your friends. If I want to continue using my magic jack I will have to buy prepaid minutes.

This is the biggest fraud being perpetraited on hard working people just trying to save a few bucks and get by.

The sun won’t shine where I would like for them to stick their junk and false advertiseing!

Once again, Tracfone proves to be awesome.  Tracfone customers enjoy cellular service virtually anywhere.  I’ve never been anywhere without service, except perhaps the back of Home Depot.  Not sure why the service cuts out there.  Maybe it’s all the metal in the roof or something.

Borislow said YMax has sold 5 million magicJacks for landline phones in the last two years, and that roughly 3 million are in active use.

So what’s [...]]]> We just found this quote on the ABC News website in a story about a new Magic Jack device.  If you read between the lines, this quote speaks volumes.

Borislow said YMax has sold 5 million magicJacks for landline phones in the last two years, and that roughly 3 million are in active use.

So what’s happening with the other 2 million devices?  Our guess is that they are sitting unusable in the homes of consumers who can’t get them to work.  How nice it must be to be able to sell a product that goes unused and unsupported.

Prepaid cellphone service costs anywhere from 50 percent to 75 percent less than postpaid service, PagePlus said. Because of the down economy, some analysts predict prepaid revenue growth of 14 [...]]]> Here’s a quote from this week’s news.  See?  You are smart for owning a pre-paid wireless phone.  You can laugh at all the other chumps.

Prepaid cellphone service costs anywhere from 50 percent to 75 percent less than postpaid service, PagePlus said. Because of the down economy, some analysts predict prepaid revenue growth of 14 percent this year compared to 4 percent for postpaid service.

Source: TWICE

Here is the code: 39651

Cheers!

If you are willing to sink about $75 you can put your MJ on a thin client and it works perfectly and you don’t have to be seeing the advertisements.

Once you setup the thin client like [...]]]> Reader Jack writes about the success he has had setting up his Magic Jack on a thin client.

If you are willing to sink about $75 you can put your MJ on a thin client and it works perfectly and you don’t have to be seeing the advertisements.

Once you setup the thin client like the T5720 you just push this mini-computer to the corner and leave it on all the time. Low power consumption since it works all by flash drives and no hard drive, no fans… quiet like a solar calculator.

There are many support forums so if you look around you will find it. Also have a decent internet connection helps. DSL works fine but probably not as good as a cable internet. I have had my MJ for over two years with the thin client setup and love it. No choppiness, call my family in Canada on the opposite coast everyday and talk for 30 minutes to an hours if you believe it… CLEAR CLEAN PHONE CALLS ALL THE TIME!! I don’t have that BS $20 for making local phone calls with AT&T. Works great guys… just a matter of setting it up correctly