13th April 2007

An “alternative” to the UbiDuo

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Recently I received an email promoting an “alternative” to the UbiDuo.

I gotta check this out, after all I should know the competition, right? (Disclosure reminder: I am manager of WinfreePCS.com which sells UbiDuo).

I contacted this person (our email path has crossed before and our conversations were never pleasant), and he sent me the link to his product.

Here’s part of the product listing:

” Why pay almost $2,000 for face to face communication devices when you can get yours for less than $50.00!”

Luckily it came with a picture of the product as well as well as the exact title of the product.

I copied the title into Amazon. Sure enough there’s the identical photo of the product and the information.

See for yourself:

Discovery Text Messengers

Take notice of the reviews - all thumbs down.

Considered yourself informed. A $50 product that could be compared to a $2000 product is “too good to be true”.

This person operates a deaf advocacy center in California and he should be ashamed of himself to market inferior products to the deaf community.

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  1. 1 On April 13th, 2007, michele said:

    May i ask you who is selling this? So we would know and not to waaste money on this product. Thanks for alerting us to this product

  2. 2 On April 13th, 2007, Richard Roehm said:

    Our text messengers is not the same as Discovery Toys text messengers. The programming is different. Buy one and see for yourself.

  3. 3 On April 13th, 2007, jsg said:

    You can find the inferior product on ebay being sold by OCDAC.

  4. 4 On April 13th, 2007, jsg said:

    Richard,

    It’s the same thing. The pictures of the products don’t lie.

    Nice try to fool me and my readers.

    JSG

  5. 5 On April 13th, 2007, Deaf258 said:

    Are you kidding me? 20 bucks for those walkie-talkie text messengers on Amazon!

    Geez, Richard. When are you going to stop being the cancerous tumor in the Deaf community’s back?

  6. 6 On April 13th, 2007, mcconnell said:

    Nice catch, JSG!

  7. 7 On April 13th, 2007, Icedtea said:

    Do your research on Ebay and Google. Check for past and present auctions. There are pics there. The keyboard isn’t qwerty.

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