Vonage Girl Exposed

The girl who appears in the new Vonage ads doing the "bump" against the big bad AT&T-type spokesman is none other than Liz Beckham, who graduated from Otterbein College in Westerville, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.  She has appeared on four episodes of Chapelle's Show and has apparently made an attempt at becoming the first woman to play in the NFL, wearing #23 for the Oakland Raiders.  (2005 Photo at www.weblo.com). 

http://www.lizbeckham.com/

Originally posted by PaWolf Vonage commercials were once GREAT! This girl does nothing for them. The ditzy blond who wants to go play with the dolphins commercial was a gut-buster; they did those type of commercials really well...should've stuck with them.   The Vonage tune actually has been out a while...is part of the soundtrack for John Water's film, 'Pecker'. The group? Rock-A-Teens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock-A-Teens

Yeah this commercial really pisses me off, especially because they play it on almost every channel I watch nonstop (TBS, Bravo, Spike, etc...)

The stupid girl is not even attractive, and her smug attitude kind of reminds you how useless a home phone is these days.  Vonage tries to pass on its product as "revolutionary" but I think they've missed the point. We have a home phone and all we get on it is telemarketing calls.

-IR

Originally posted by irelayer Yeah this commercial really pisses me off, especially because they play it on almost every channel I watch nonstop (TBS, Bravo, Spike, etc...) The stupid girl is not even attractive, and her smug attitude kind of reminds you how useless a home phone is these days.  Vonage tries to pass on its product as "revolutionary" but I think they've missed the point. We have a home phone and all we get on it is telemarketing calls. -IR

The band is called the 5.6.7.8's and they are the band that's featured in the Vonage commercial.

Because Vonage has made itself out to be a "warehouse" club dealing exclusively with people who have high-speed Internet, which is usually a status symbol product reserved for the affluent.  The rest of us poor schmoes have to make do with the lower-cost 56K hookups or do without the Internet.  No wonder only two million people use Vonage. 

Originally posted by 8 Track Single Because Vonage has made itself out to be a "warehouse" club dealing exclusively with people who have high-speed Internet, which is usually a status symbol product reserved for the affluent.  The rest of us poor schmoes have to make do with the lower-cost 56K hookups or do without the Internet.  No wonder only two million people use Vonage.

Originally posted by 8 Track Single Originally posted by jerkylips Originally posted by 8 Track Single Because Vonage has made itself out to be a "warehouse" club dealing exclusively with people who have high-speed Internet, which is usually a status symbol product reserved for the affluent.  The rest of us poor schmoes have to make do with the lower-cost 56K hookups or do without the Internet.  No wonder only two million people use Vonage.    I agree--I also hate those affluent people with status symbols like cell phones & cars newer than 1987.   No offense, but high speed internet is a status symbol?  I didn't even know dial-up was still available.  wow...   The cost of 56K hookups, such as NetZero, PeoplePC, AOL and EarthLink range anywhere from $7.95 to $22.95 a month.  With high-speed DSL, the cost is usually around $49.95 or more monthly, plus you have to purchase a special modem--which may cost around $100 at the least--to establish service.

I'd just like to see and hear Ms. Beckham with that haircut saying 'get me those puppies'.

Originally posted by 8 Track Single Originally posted by jerkylips Originally posted by 8 Track Single Because Vonage has made itself out to be a "warehouse" club dealing exclusively with people who have high-speed Internet, which is usually a status symbol product reserved for the affluent.  The rest of us poor schmoes have to make do with the lower-cost 56K hookups or do without the Internet.  No wonder only two million people use Vonage.    I agree--I also hate those affluent people with status symbols like cell phones & cars newer than 1987.   No offense, but high speed internet is a status symbol?  I didn't even know dial-up was still available.  wow...   The cost of 56K hookups, such as NetZero, PeoplePC, AOL and EarthLink range anywhere from $7.95 to $22.95 a month.  With high-speed DSL, the cost is usually around $49.95 or more monthly, plus you have to purchase a special modem--which may cost around $100 at the least--to establish service.

I have high speed cable...I negotiated a price that suits me.  Of course I've been a customer of the company since 1980.  No cost for the modem.

While the commercial itself is inane and mindless, it's the amount of times I have seen this steaming pile of turd that is driving me nuts! I can't remember a single commercial from as far back as I can recall that has gotten more air time on more different channels than this. As soon as I hear that cheap little xylophone jingle at the onset I can start to taste bile in my throat.  Don't TV programmers worry about commercials actually driving away viewers??? When this commercial comes on I change the channel, maybe I find my way back, maybe I don't....

Originally posted by jerkylips Originally posted by 8 Track Single Because Vonage has made itself out to be a "warehouse" club dealing exclusively with people who have high-speed Internet, which is usually a status symbol product reserved for the affluent.  The rest of us poor schmoes have to make do with the lower-cost 56K hookups or do without the Internet.  No wonder only two million people use Vonage.    I agree--I also hate those affluent people with status symbols like cell phones & cars newer than 1987.   No offense, but high speed internet is a status symbol?  I didn't even know dial-up was still available.  wow...

Sure my mother lives in a town where all you can get is dial-up (and 28k max not even 56k).