Comments on: Vonage – failing to be human http://www.marketsentinel.com/blog/2008/06/vonage-failing-to-be-human/ Clear thinking, straight talking Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:10:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lester Collins http://www.marketsentinel.com/blog/2008/06/vonage-failing-to-be-human/#comment-523 Lester Collins Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:10:44 +0000 http://www.marketsentinel.com/blog/2008/06/vonage-failing-to-be-human#comment-523 Yeah Vonage is a ripoff. They advertise no contract but when I cancel they charged another 40 dollars. Also the number they gave me was most frequently called by acquaintances of the former user as 90% of the calls I got for the last year and a half were wrong numbers. I'm sticking with cell phone only. Yeah Vonage is a ripoff. They advertise no contract but when I cancel they charged another 40 dollars. Also the number they gave me was most frequently called by acquaintances of the former user as 90% of the calls I got for the last year and a half were wrong numbers. I’m sticking with cell phone only.

]]> By: Will Carpenter http://www.marketsentinel.com/blog/2008/06/vonage-failing-to-be-human/#comment-522 Will Carpenter Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:04:48 +0000 http://www.marketsentinel.com/blog/2008/06/vonage-failing-to-be-human#comment-522 I started with Vonage, just like anyone, with the excitement of a new age phone company that treats their customers very well, and doesn't rip them off. skip forward in time to present day... I just got told by Vonage customer service that I couldn't get 13 months of back billing from them that they charged me for a phone I hadn't been using since may of 2007. I lived in Seattle at the time with my wife who was in the military, she was moved to Louisiana due to a change of station, so I cancelled my account prior to leaving... being that we knew we were going to move around a lot we didn't start online service so seeing any charges to our checking account was difficult, being that we moved we didn't receive our account info until November of 2007 (in Bulk I might add) and still really didn't notice due to so much happening in our lives at the time, then in February/March of 08 I see charges from Vonage on our account, I call them and they told me that it's no problem sir you can get all of that money back being that we can see you didn't use your phone, BUT you will have to talk to our cancellation dept to cancel your account... needless to say, I had a horrible time working around their hours, being mine are so long, that it took me till June to call to cancel, but I wasn't worried "I could get all of my money back, being that they could see that I didn't use their phone for over a year"... Nope... instead I got an offer to receive 10 dollars off service for a year, ooooooo I get 120 dollars of my hard earned money back. Vonage blows and is a major rip off, and I will see to it that everyone knows about it. William A Carpenter I started with Vonage, just like anyone, with the excitement of a new age phone company that treats their customers very well, and doesn’t rip them off.

skip forward in time to present day…

I just got told by Vonage customer service that I couldn’t get 13 months of back billing from them that they charged me for a phone I hadn’t been using since may of 2007.

I lived in Seattle at the time with my wife who was in the military, she was moved to Louisiana due to a change of station, so I cancelled my account prior to leaving… being that we knew we were going to move around a lot we didn’t start online service so seeing any charges to our checking account was difficult, being that we moved we didn’t receive our account info until November of 2007 (in Bulk I might add) and still really didn’t notice due to so much happening in our lives at the time, then in February/March of 08 I see charges from Vonage on our account, I call them and they told me that it’s no problem sir you can get all of that money back being that we can see you didn’t use your phone, BUT you will have to talk to our cancellation dept to cancel your account… needless to say, I had a horrible time working around their hours, being mine are so long, that it took me till June to call to cancel, but I wasn’t worried “I could get all of my money back, being that they could see that I didn’t use their phone for over a year”…

Nope… instead I got an offer to receive 10 dollars off service for a year, ooooooo I get 120 dollars of my hard earned money back. Vonage blows and is a major rip off, and I will see to it that everyone knows about it.

William A Carpenter

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