Any of you using a fax by email service? What do you pay? Who do you use? How do you like it? I pay $80.00 a month for a fax line and a phone that no one calls except for telemarketing. I would like to get rid of my land line.
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In my area you can buy a fax only line, that is a line that has a fax signal which is only dedicated to faxes. Ask your phone co. about that. I paid 6$ a mo.
Efax worked for me. There was a slight delay but it's much less than it used to be. Efax used to be free if you were receiving only. I haven't paid a bill on it for awhile but it was cheap.
Bob's next test date: 12/10/07
Somebody here recommended http://www.faxaway.com/ when I was looking. Looked good, but I never signed up.
We dropped our land line several months ago. Never missed it, or needed FAX (mostly outgoing). Scanning to email works much better. We save 3-4hrs/wk.
"I am a perfect ahole" Sphere 4/13/08
We use maxemail and it rules! All your faxes come into your email as PDF files and arrive in the same time a hard copy fax would. I think its like $50-75 a year.
Mike
can you fax out with it? Bob's next test date: 12/10/07
Jim,
Yes you can but from a practical standpoint it seems easier just to fax a hard copy out from the regular fax machine as otherwise you have to scan the hard copy and then run it thru the fax software.
Mike
I have used Efax for over 5 years. $9.95 a month.
They will e-mail you a PDF or proprietary format file as an attachment. They also keep all incoming faxes for 365 days.
The nice thing for me, is that it keeps me more or less paperless. I can keep the file on my laptop and not have a stack of papers stapled together. But I can print when and if I want and as many times as I want. Thus saving paper and ink/toner. I never have to worry about malfunctioning machines, out of paper, out of ink, busy signals, etc.
You can also use it for outbound faxing, but I have a cheap machine that I use for outbound faxes. For long-distance, I've programming in my calling card @ 2.9 cents a minute.
My only complaint is that I get a junk mail fax a week or so. But recently they allow you to report the offenders. Hopefully, they will sue their a$$ off.
I use http://www.greenfax.com to send faxes via email ($0.07/minute) and http://www.onesuite.com for incoming faxes via email ($1/month) and my long distance ($0.029/minute on our land line). Have used the greenfax successfully on several business transactions--no problems. They also have a receive function, but, for as often as I need to receive a fax, it's not worth the money. (The primary reason I got the onesuite account for incoming faxes was for the gym my daughter goes to.)
Sounds as though you could dump the land line and use just greenfax for outgoing faxes.
Kathleen