I’ve been using them for about a month or so and I love it! I’m not a morning person and I’m the type of heavy sleeper who needs several alarm clocks (2 different cell phones plus two regular alarm clocks) but the phone almost always wakes me all the way up. I looked around for a wake up service and stumbled across Wakerupper. I was wary at first. Free? Huh? How do they do that? I still don’t know, but it’s been working for me and I haven’t received any spam phone calls or any other weirdness from giving them my phone number.
I signed up for an account after using the service for a couple of weeks, but you don’t have to, you can schedule calls (or reminders) whether you have an account or not. The fun thing is that you can type in a message to go along with your call. When the phone rings, you first hear a soothing (pre-recorded) male voice telling you that it’s your reminder call. Then, you hear an electronic voice saying the message you typed in. Then the original voice comes back on and tells you to press 1 if you want to hear your message again. After a pause, you’re told to press 1 if you want to snooze (I think that’s only offered if you have an account), then, you’re asked to press 9 if you didn’t request the call (if someone gave your phone number as a prank). Last, you hear a female voice saying “Goodbye.” For some reason the way she says it always cracks me up. I stay on the phone for the whole thing just to hear her, and by then I’m fully awake, and I hang up the phone with a grin on my face.
I haven’t yet gotten over the novelty of being able to type in almost anything and hear it said back to me in an electronic voice. I type in nonsense phrases, names of my favorite artists, bits of lyrics, movies I’ve seen or I’m going to see, all kinds of things. It won’t do profanity though. Atleast, not the ones I’ve tried snerk.
Anyone else use wakerupper.com? Does anyone have a clue as to who these people are and how they can do what they do?