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setting up the obi200 can be a little wonky, esp if you buy it used and have to do a factory reset, but i found all the directions online, i’ve also contacted their help email and had them help me at times. overall, if you can hook it up, it’s so much cheaper than using minutes when you’re at home.
ok this is what i do:
we have ting on both our cell phones and we love it because you only pay for what you use.
we have a google voice number (local to our area code) that rings both our phones.
i bought an obi200 used on ebay, but you can buy them new for about $40. i hooked up the obi200 to my modem and a cheap cordless phone (i got a Vtech w speakerphone, i love it!)
then i had our google voice also ring our obi200 at our house, there is a way to set that up through obitalk.com.
that way when we are home, we use the cordless phone for calls in and out rather than our cell phones, so we don’t use minutes, since ting is charged by what you use. so if you use less minutes, your bill is cheaper.same with data, we make sure all data usage on our phones is through wifi when we’re home.
when we’re traveling, we just have to use minutes and data, but when we’re home we can pretty much not pay for phone service.
other than the glitch that kept us on the phone for a long time and having to get another label and pay more etc etc. it was a cool thing to be able to ship a big piece via bus. i don’t understand why they have that glitch though, i set the date and the time i was going to drop off (kind of like USPS, yes i’m shipping today or tomorrow, label is still valid!) so why was the label invalid? that’s obviously a huge problem that needs fixing. i wanted to purchase online because they said it was cheaper, as you mentioned, so i guess next time, i’ll print right when we leave for the station.
if we werent leaving for nyc tomorrow, everything we own would be power washed this week!
ah, so basically you, as a buyer, can make an offer on anything on ebay. i love that!
so he actually got back to me and showed me the receipt (though it did not show where he got the services, like mailboxes etc or where ever), he was charged $14.50 for media mail (it should have been about 8.50) and $5 for a box to send it to me. so he did spend $20 on shipping, it just wasn’t expedited like he said it would be, which is weird. so, shrug? and chalk it up to an amateur seller?
this happened to me this week too. i bought something that could be shipped Media Mail. i asked the seller to ship Media for a cheaper price, they said no they have to ship Expedited (as shown on the listing). Then i get the box yesterday and it has a media mail label! But what can be done? you can’t open a case about shipping time/services right?
thanks for all the updates, i feel like i was there with you!!
so glad to hear about multi-user access, that will be an awesome improvement for those of us with helpers (or those of us who want helpers in the future but don’t want to pay for 3rd party services etc etc).
