Buy a MagicJack and Help Give Back

VoIP-PAL recently announced support for Talk for the Cure and chose the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund Inc. as the first recipient. The second choice is Juvenile Diabetes Research; we are proud to give our customers the opportunity to choose one of the recipients and hope to raise a significant amount of money for both charities from the sale of MagicJack as follows: Four dollars from each MagicJack sold only through VoIP-PAL.com's websites will be donated to one of these charities.

Clarification Notice:

Only MagicJack purchases through VoIP-PAL's websites http://www.voip-pal.com and http://www.pinkmagicjack.com are eligible for the charities donations and the Incentive programs.

VoIP-PAL's clients will also have the option to "donate" the 300 air miles/points they receive as an incentive for their purchase to the foundation.

"We are honored to add juvenile diabetes research to our growing list of recipients as a worthy cause and will announce the third soon," said Richard G. Kipping, Chairmen and CEO of VoIP-PAL.com.

Posted on Apr 21, 2008	Reviews \| Share \| Digg
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neil
Tuesday, 22 April 2008 04:12

Probably better to donate the money directly to the charity. This recent review of MagicJack[1] found that

"... it is a festering pustule of crappy terms of service, spyware, and lies:

In short, it not only has one agree to ads with its paid-for system, but claims that the ads are necessary for it to work. It will also snoop on your calls to target ads more accurately, and has you sign away your legal right to take it to court if it defrauds or otherwise harms you. Delightful.

Neither the EULA itself, nor any other privacy or legal information, can be easily found at its homepage. It's not even provided at the point of sale, where one enters credit card info, email and street addresses as such, so as to gain access to the service and have your MagicJack dongle delivered. I found the EULA's URL through Google.

It gets sexier. When you access MajicJack's instant web help page, a bizarre series of "compatibility tests" take place first, reporting lies like "Your MagicJack is functioning properly" even if you don't have one installed.

Even the "look how many people came for a free trial" counter on the homepage is a fake, a javascript applet that increments itself automatically..."

[1] http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/magicjack-netphone-s.html

zenzblair
Thursday, 08 May 2008 09:42

I love MagicJack. I am not a geek but I had it installed and working in 2 minutes. Voice clarity is great and who wouldn't want to call all over for $20 a year.

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