Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jun 30, 2000
Pros: Cheaper than a second phone line, get your messages while online.
Cons: It hasn't happened very many times, but a missed call from time to time.
Summary: Updated and revised on 6/19/01.
Callwave- The Internets Answering Machine!!!
Why pay $15 a month for a second phone line for your computer when you can have Callwave for free!!! This is what I ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 4, 2009
Pros: No pros. It was barely worth it when it was free.
Cons: These guys are slim. Crooked and a fraud.
Summary: These guys are a total rip off. They got me in with a free service ( NOT JUST A FREE TRIAL) then after a few years they started charging me $4/month. Way to much to pay, but I kept it because I had printed the number all over the place. Granted I don't ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 11, 2007
Pros: Absolutely essential if you depend on dialup
Cons: None (other than scary stories about cancellation problems)
Summary: I've had Callwave for years and it's been tremendously helpful around our house. We work for a university that provides free dialup internet access, but this would tie up our phone line for hours on end. Callwave solved that problem. When we signed ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 3, 2007
Pros: Easy to setup
Cons: Doesn't work, can't uninstall, horrible customer support
Summary: I decided to give Callwave's Visual Voicemail for cellphones a try. Boy am I sorry. I went through the activation process and everything correctly. Now when people call it goes to my old voicemail and the phone notifies me of a new message. When I ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 21, 2006
Pros: Works Part of the Time
Cons: Customer Service Sucks. Absolutely the worlds worst if you have a problem.
Summary: Paid for Caller ID feature but the last 2 months the caller ID's are not forwarded by Callwave. I have sent them approximately 15 emails to correct the problem but only receive automated responses telling me how important my problem is and how fast they ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 4, 2006
Pros: Cell Phone Screening
Virtual Number
SMS messages from Voicemail
Call Transfering.
Cons: Recently Callwave has outsourced its support operations to India.
Summary: I came upon callwave while looking for a virtual number for my cell phone. I have two callwave accounts one for my cell phone and one for my home. Both work as advertised and I think the service is FANTASTIC for the price. It cannot be beat. The lines ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 27, 2005
Pros: Callwave was great. It lets me know who is calling when I'm online.
Cons: Have not even been able to get through to a live person to cancel.
Summary: Like the previous few reviewers I have not been able to cancel the service, and fear I will be billed when I am trying to cut down on uneccessary expenses. I have had callwave for years now and it was wonderful. I basically used it so I could hear ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 24, 2003
Pros: It did function
Cons: Account was "mistakenly" cancelled by them.
Summary: When I tried Callwave Alert for the free trial, it was good. When I discontinued because the price ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 17, 2003
Pros: Very efficient, like to be able to decide how soon calls need to be returned.
Cons: Doesn't work with AOL guardian, if kids are on, won't answer.
Summary: I believe this is one of the best choices for internet answering service. The banner stays across t ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 22, 2003
Pros: Call Wave answers the call when you are on line
Cons: Call Wave causes freezes & program malfunctions on Windows ME
Summary: GOOD: Call Wave answers the call when I am on line so I have less arguments with family members. Cal ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 3, 2003
Pros: simple to set up, nonobtrusive
Cons: no longer free
Summary: I used Callwave for two years, and I was quite happy with it. I wasn't crazy about the fact that it was always displayed, but I realized this is how they kept the service free. And, to be honest, it's not a very big display, and you get used to it after ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 21, 2003
Pros: Cheap, works fine
Cons: Free--but only for a few months
Summary: Actually, I've signed up for Callwave twice--once a few years ago and again a few months ago. I signed on because it was free--aside from the call forwarding charge from the phone company (which you do NOT have to have Callwave do, just call the phone ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 20, 2003
Pros: I have nothing positive to say here.
Cons: Dangerous Uninstaller
Summary: Today I used the Call Wave uninstaller since the Call Wave program never had worked, and the uninstaller managed to uninstall 74% of the programs on my hard drive! I have now had to spend the last couple of hours trying to reinstall those programs. It ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 15, 2002
Pros: Better than nothing. No flash ads. The ugly thing CAN be moved off the screen.
Cons: Horrible fake "Hi _____ is using callwave..." voice. Is not free.
Summary: I am so sick of this program! Today 10-15-2002 I denounce the entire nonsense. I am so sick of programs that force you to upgrade. I have found several easy workarounds to this. For one thing I never agree to any license agreements, period (ever hear ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 11, 2002
Pros: Simple, affordable, some nice features added recently.
Cons: Nothing
Summary: Back in December of 1999 I was surfing the net for an Online Answering Machine that was affordable and was available in my area. I was checking the search engines and saw a link to Callwave the Internet Answering Machine; I was very interested so I gave ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 8, 2002
Pros: It's brainless to use
Cons: Tracking program, it's NOT FREE, constant endless banner ads
Summary: This a surfing habits information compiler too and they will bill you.
I used the service for several months "free" with the option to buy a no-ad version. Then they sent me an email discontinuing the free version--so I started paying for ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 24, 2002
Pros: It works. It answers call while you are online. Caller ID feature is nice.
Cons: Not free as advertised.
Summary: I signed up for Callwave and was so happy to have found a "free" internet answering machine. After paying my $10.00 fee to install call forward busy with my phone company and paying the first month's fee for this service, I was ready to go with ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 15, 2002
Pros: It's free
Cons: It hardly ever works.
Summary: This service takes calls for you when you are online, and plays them back over your computer.
It worked fine for about the first 2 weeks but then it stopped working most of the time. Although at 3:00am it seemed to be on! Even worse, it ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 15, 2001
Pros: Caller i.d. option, usethe net and get messages
Cons: none yet
Summary: Callwave is by far one of the greatest things since the invention of the internet alone.
I got the message on some site, it was a pop up. It claimed that I could use the computer, and get phone call messages at the same time.
I went ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 9, 2001
Pros: Cheaper than a second phone line
Cons: They claim its free, but its not.
Summary: When you go to the callwave site, you see all the advertising claiming callwave is free, you just pay your phone company to have the calls transferred to another number, that's fine, however I have had it five months, two of the weeks it hasn't worked, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 1, 2001
Pros: Cheaper then a second phone line.
Cons: Sometimes I have to restart my computer to get the audio to play.
Summary: When I downloaded Callwave and tried it out I was very pleased. I don't think any call has failed to go through, I am able to leave my own personal message to callers, very easy to figure out and use and payment can be billed automatically through my ... read more
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