magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

revolutiondj · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 21

If anyone wants to sign-up for DirecTV, let me know. If you sign-up and give my account number as a referral then we both get $100 off our bill. This comes as a $10 credit for 10 months. This is good even off of their best deals.

Thanks!

crackerjack · Dan Should Pay Me Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 784

take this crap somewhere else

revolutiondj · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 21

I thought this area of the forum was for anything.

cell14 · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:17 am Post subject:

Except for spam.

Walter_Smith · MagicJack Newbie Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 5

Allow me to tell you a funny story. Back a long time ago, seems like forever. I was paying $35 dollars a month for city cable. Then the cable company imposed a rate hike to $45 dollars. That is when I dropped my cable for DTV. Everything went great, and a few months went by when a woman from the local cable company came to the door and wanted $90 for my "past due" bill. I told her I canceled the service months ago. She clipped the cable anyways.

So there I was crusing with $32 a month DVT when 6 months later my bill jumps to $34. I called and the service told me it was the first rate jump in years and besides it was ONLY $2. After 9 months I began losing signal from the dish so I asked if they could realign it. They wanted a min $50 service fee. I moved it myself, turned out the neighbors tree grew up in the way so I relocated the dish.

A few months after that, I got a $55 billing in the mail. My "introductory period" had run out so I canceled and went to Dish Network they had an offer of 18 months at $30. That seemed like a real deal... too good to be true.

The tech said he was having trouble with getting a signal and setup 2 dishes in my backyard. I told him it was ok as long as it didn't cost more. He assured me it wouldn't. But I got hit with a huge bill. I pulled the second dish myself and packed it up sent it back. Told them the first dish was working just fine without the need of a two dish system.

I dropped Dish early due to far too many service outages and issues. I was made to pay a $200 early disconnect fee as well. Then I was checking out the move back to cable but now they want $70 because they want me to use TV, phone and internet.

I don't watch TV much anymore. Cable or satellite, they are all in it to rip you off. I rent DVD's and I have an HD box on my old set and now they want to kill the airwaves... it figures, I just can't win.

fujifilm99

nitemare · MagicJack User Joined: 29 Jan 2010 Posts: 38

DirecTV = $50/month (first year only. After that, $90/month)
Internet= Cable Time warner ($45/month)
Phone = MajicJack ($16/year)

I finally am happy with my current setup for tv/internet/and phone.

Nobody beats the Whiz! · Dan Should Pay Me Joined: 26 Oct 2009 Posts: 559

TV: OTA Digital TV 33 channels (kids, weather, sports, retro tv channels etc) combined with HD Homerun = FREE!

Verizon dry loop = $43.00 per month

Phone=MJ ($19.95/year), TK6000 (free), Ooma (free), Duo ($29.95/year)

BTW, I really love my HD Homerun. Soon, they're releasing a version that will accept your cable card, so it can tune your entire digital cable line-up. However, I'll stick with what I have. I'm too cheap for cable. Wink

fujifilm99 · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:16 am Post subject:

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DirecTV = $50/month (first year only. After that, $90/month)
Internet= Cable Time warner ($45/month)
Phone = MajicJack ($16/year)

I finally am happy with my current setup for tv/internet/and phone.

I've tried Premium Cable channels, but I feel that they don't have that much variety after the first couple of months - when you're seen all the regulars and are down to a couple of new movies a week

Around 2005. I tried out the Blockbuster, Netflix, and Walmart DVD rental by mail plans and finally ended up choosing the Blockbuster's 3 movies at a time service for about $18/month (introductory/lifetime price) and got 3-5 really new DVD movies that I'd selected in the mail every week.

I can't say exactly how (I invoke my 5th amendment rights), but I always mailed them back the next day and also watched them when I felt like it.

I eventually dropped out because my DVD played died. However in 1.5 to 2 years, then I'd run through over close to if not over - 200 DVD's. And I was starting to move on to watching the occasionally TV series for different stuff. I got a NEW DVD player last year - just never signed back up.

DirecTV at the time was about $50/month and Blockbuster about $18/month or around $68/month for TV/Video.
Now $55 and $16 (mail only plan) for $71 for TV/video.

Then, add the playboy channel for about $19.month - and we're both @ $90 for TV/video.

In my case, a contributing factor was that the the closest video store (well, a gas station) was 13 miles away. Blockbuster was about 35 miles away. The Blockbuster plan also threw in a couple of free in-store rentals and a free used movie every 2 or 3 months.

Of course, I didn't always make it in for the free movies. If I did, I always got weekly or three day rentals and mailed them back to the store myself.

P.S. I can call my play telephone with my real phone - but not the other way around.

MagicJack has blocked my Telephone Company blocked by I've had it about 2 months and except for 3 days (The Labor Day Experiment") - every since I had it. Evil or Very Mad