Has anyone used this type of service? It's set up so you can "fax" documents to a recipient by way of your email. Just attach the document and it gets sent to the recipient's fax machine.

The reason is that my wife and I are starting to send out bids for a new house construction and our consultant recommended we get a fax machine. Trouble is we gave up the landline years ago in favor of cell phones. So I was looking into a cheap plan $5-10/month for an e-fax service.

Anyone had any experience or luck with them? Any particular service you would recommend? For around $10, across the board it looks like I could get around 100-150 send and 200-300 receive pages.

 

Once upon a time...

I had a free subscription to E-Fax. They basically assign you a fax number (to my recollection, my # was located in New Mexico - mind you, I'm in Kentucky) so that I could receive faxes...

To send, it's just as simple as what you described. Heck, I think the little application that you install will put a 'print driver' type of deal in place so that you can just click 'print' and send it to a fax.

Also, FYI... Windows has a fax program or two out there if you have an old school fax modem that you can get a phone line over to... It's been a long long time since I've used a computer, in general, to fax but, when I did, the efax service wasn't bad.

 

10.00 a month for that amount of pages sounds like a good deal.

The Windows fax program works fine but does no good without the land line and a modem so that's out.

I like using PDF's and email opposed to faxes. That only works though when the people on the other end can deal with it too. If you don't have to edit one a free writer like CutePDF works fine for just creating them. If you do have to edit, Acrobat isn't that hard to find.

Sounds like e-fax is your best deal.

 

Acrobat wouldn't be the problem on my end, I have it here at work and I could scan and create PDFs ad nauseum. But as you said, it's not efficient if the other user doesn't do PDF or email.

I could use the fax here at work, except I'm looking at sending/receiving a lot of faxes in a short time frame. Not that the company looks down on it, it's just a lot of time I should be doing what I should be doing.

I think I can get a local number, at least that's what a couple outfits have advertised. I'm sure I could get one at least in the KC area.

They should really just ban fax machines. All this talk about going all digital and paperless business, yet mounds of business still gets done on these ancient piles of crap.

 

I agree. You can usually print to pdf, attach and send away in an email before a fax machine is done dialing. And with a pdf, you can actually read it when it gets to the other end.

 

You can get a local number with the eFax Plus or Pro service - which you need to be able to send faxes anyway. Check the rates, outgoing can get expensive at a dime a page.

 

if you don't have very many to send out, go to Staples and use their fax machine.

Ask for all quotes to be in writing and sent back via mail.

 

www.ureach.com

been using them since 2001 .. awesome service .. 800 number for your fax, and it forwards it via email when you receive one ..

you can also send one through them by uplaoding the file .. then it faxes off ..

never had an issue with them. I have used them during my last three relocations and home purchases..

 

Well where were you yesterday? I signed up with myfax.com, $10/month with 100 send/200 receive pages. Got a local number on it, but we're not anticipating anyone outside of the KC area to be faxing us long distance.

If we reach 100/200 I'd be surprised, the $0.10/page doesn't sound half bad. Oh well, we see how it works. Thanks for the input fellas!

 

I use free services www.faxzero.com to send my faxes and www.faxsv.com to receive.

 

I use myfax.com myself but I refer alot of the agents in my office to http://www.metrohispeed.com/ because they get 1000 pages a month, only thing is they dont have web viewer access like myfax, but myfax plans are much more expensive.

So far its great for the past few years. I have tried efax and j2 which are also great but for quanity i would stick to metro.

No busy signals. Much cheaper then having an analog line and paying for monthly service usage.