How did you buy your Vonage hardware?

Posts: 241 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 241

I'm just wondering how folks around here obtained their Vonage hardware:

I bought my RT31P2 directly from Vonage with a rebate that made the upfront cost essentially zero (I did have to pay $15 for shipping...).

I'm always surprised by the posts regarding rebate hassles since I didn't have to deal with it at all. Of course the hardware options at vonage.com at any time are pretty limited...

Posts: 135 · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject:

I bought my PAP2 at Circuit City and it was free after rebates
(and I actually received the rebates!). I thought about ordering from Vonage and giving a co-worker a referral. In the end I did not want to wait for the hardware.

It seemed silly that I would have been paying for Vonage service as soon as I ordered but I could not actually use it until I received it. I also did not want to pay shipping. The deal just seemed better to me to buy it at a store. I also had the opton of an easy return to CC if the PAP2 was bad... not having to deal with shipping to Vonage.

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Apr 18, 2006 Posts: 4

I haven't made the purchase yet but am planning on the instant rebate thru Vonage directly.

Posts: 72 · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:27 am Post subject:

The money I saved is like 15 times the rebate,,,,,,,,,,,(in 9 months) Juggle

screw the rebate start saving now.................

oops had to edit 9 months cha
ching

Posts: 2257 · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:09 am Post subject:

Bought mine at Circuit City, on the "G for Free" program they were running last July.

Sent in my old "B" router, and got my rebates exactly on schedule (there were three of them in total, one from Circuit City, one from Linksys, and one from Vonage. Of course the largest was the Vonage one that only applied after 90 days, but all of them came exactly when I expected them to, with no issues).

Posts: 48 · Full Forum Member Joined: Dec 10, 2004 Posts: 48

I bought mine from amazon.com a long time ago. It cost $50 with the usual $50 rebate and was free shipping, so good deal.

Posts: 192 · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:57 am Post subject:

Got mine from Stapes during the "G for free" promotion. Traded in a Linksys BEFW11S4 and got the rebate on time, just like Natehoy.

Posts: 114

Same here, except I originally (1.5 year ago) received a Motorola VT1000 for free, then a free upgrade to an RT31P2, then a free upgrade to a RTP300 (all through Vonage).

-Craig

pdhenry wrote:

I'm just wondering how folks around here obtained their Vonage hardware:

I bought my RT31P2 directly from Vonage with a rebate that made the upfront cost essentially zero (I did have to pay $15 for shipping...).

I'm always surprised by the posts regarding rebate hassles since I didn't have to deal with it at all. Of course the hardware options at vonage.com at any time are pretty limited...

Posts: 249 · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject: Vonage Adapter

I ordered directly from Vonage. No, I didn't understand that they would start charging me immediately while the equipment went out on the slow boat. Thought it was a bit cheesy of them when I figured it out, however the low cost of the service and the fact that it worked well from the day I received the TA sort of made me forget about it. I use the 500 min. plan and a toll free virtual number. About the most bang for $20 bucks a month I think I can get!

Posts: 249

outrun wrote:

Same here, except I originally (1.5 year ago) received a Motorola VT1000 for free, then a free upgrade to an RT31P2, then a free upgrade to a RTP300 (all through Vonage).

-Craig
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Say Mate,

How did you do that free upgrading?? I was under the impression that there were no hardware upgrades unless something broke. My RT31P2 seems to work fine, but then you don't really know unless you upgrade.