The following is an email I sent to the owner of this company. I will post any replies.
Dear Jodi
Thanks for your assistance in getting my account up and running, for some
reason, it was erroring out when I kept trying. I am a member of an online
users group who use ebay and paypal, there are 400-500 active members of the
group and several thousand casual members of the group. Most if not all of
these members have a need for a service like you provide, the virtual phone
number system with the call forwarding and voicemail options works very well
of our needs. We have needs for many area codes and international phone
numbers like you have available. Because our members would have three
different scenarios for your service, I would like to make some suggestions
and comments.
1. Some people can use your system exactly as it is, one or more permanent
virtual phone numbers with call forwarding and voicemail available.
2. On some occasions we need one time use temporary phone numbers utilizing
call forwarding. The phone numbers which would be used for automated
verification systems and would be needed for only 5-10 minutes, after which
they would never be used again. While people can achieve this using the "10
day free trial", it is probably not fair to your company as there would
never be any income received. It is my opinion that if you sold a service
for perhaps 1.00-2.00 in which they could receive a temporary phone number
for 1 hour that members would support you by purchasing it instead of using
the free 10 day trial. People could either pay the nominal 1.00-2.00 fee
via credit card or paypal or have the fee deducted from their deposit
account as you currently have setup. If you didn't want to publicly make
this an option on your public website, perhaps some combination of
keystrokes could be entered to allow us to purchase this from you. I could
make sure that the option is known to all users of our users group.
3. Some members can use one or more monthly accounts where the phone number
on the account can be changed "on the fly". Perhaps an option to change the
phone number on the account and you could charge a nominal fee for this
service.
Please let me know what you think of these ideas.
Regards
Mike
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