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chad
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best online fax services

Post by chad »

Dear Community

I need your help finding an online fax service "efax" type. I need it cheap but most of all reliable. If any of you subscribe to one of those can you leave some comments.

thanks
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laserjobs
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Post by laserjobs »

Jconnect from j2 has a free receive account
http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/homePage?CMP=OTC-US

As well as K7
http://www.k7.net/

If you only send a few faxes and don't mind an advertised cover sheet use
http://www.faxzero.com

http://www.faxaway.com
$1 monthly $0.11/min
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thanks laserjob

Post by chad »

great finds

I just signed up with jconnect free acct.
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what about www.onefax.com

Post by chad »

does anyone uses this service

www.onefax.com

if yes any issues with it or is it going smooth
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Post by aone999 »

I use RapidFax (http://www.RapidFax.com), and works good.
  • * $9.95/Month.
    * Internet Fax - Send & receive faxes from email.
    * No setup fee.
    * 300 free inbound or outbound fax pages
    * Free 30 Day Trial
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Post by kconaty »

http://www.faxdigits.com/ free unlimited incoming
bolee4mj
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call forwarding

Post by bolee4mj »

Has anyone had luck forwarding a local MJ # to a free efax line or to other non-local fax numbers? I can forward to a real fax machine but not to efax.
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Re: call forwarding

Post by crackerjack »

bolee4mj wrote:Has anyone had luck forwarding a local MJ # to a free efax line or to other non-local fax numbers? I can forward to a real fax machine but not to efax.
try packetel.com
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Post by couch-potato »

I use Myfax

(+) I like it, it is reliable, easy to use, $10/month, first month free.

(-) It has only 100 outgoing pages per month, which isn't enough.

(+) It has Canadian area codes available, which was a big plus for me.

(+) no advertising
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Post by magicjack6666 »

hi couch-potato thanks for the answer
I actually decided to go w/ onefax.com I have been using them for over 2 months. I got the toll free number 866 it works great easy to use when I call cust-services they are great
I pay $12.95/month and gives me unlimited faxes in and out
no contract plus you can bulk-fax 5000/time

go there to check it out
if you use this link and sign up I will get some credit (that would be great but it s up to you)
http://onefax.com?qagent=1368
If not go to their home page
http://onefax.com
as after I research for a while they have the best deal period

take care
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Post by couch-potato »

Hi magicjack6666,

Thanks for the tip about onefax, I will look into it. I'm still on my first month free with myfax, and so far have not gotten to the 100 page outgoing limit. Now that I have already given out my new fax number, I'll have to consider if it is worth the hassle of making the change. One problem I ran into before was trying to send a fax to a Canadian 1-800 number, they would only accept faxes originating from a Canadian area code, so I'm not sure if they would accept one from a toll-free number.
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hi couch-potato

Post by magicjack6666 »

hi couch-potato

If I understand you correctly you have trouble sending a fax from U.S. to 800 in Canada. I'm in the US if you want to give me one 800 in Canada I will try it with onefax and let you know.

Take care
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Post by City Builder »

laserjobs wrote:Jconnect from j2 has a free receive account
http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/homePage?CMP=OTC-US
Thank you for the link on j2.com, since we can send faxes perfectly find through the magic jack but not receive them no matter what we've tried, we were looking for a cheap or low cost service just to receive our faxes, and it seems that j2.com's free inbound faxes right to my mailbox is perfect for us and especially since it's free. If they ever drop the free inbound accounts then I'll have to look at paying a monthly for another services inbound, but until then j2.com has worked great through all my tests this morning other than one time when my fax machine didn't wait long enough through the voice mail announcement and hung up the phone, but upon it's automatic redial attempt it sent the 3 page document through fast and clear.

Plus I actually like the J2 messenger as it allows me to annotate notes onto the fax, and other manipulations.

I'll be testing them out for reliability for the next week or so.
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Post by mianne »

City Builder wrote: Thank you for the link on j2.com, since we can send faxes perfectly find through the magic jack but not receive them no matter what we've tried, we were looking for a cheap or low cost service just to receive our faxes, and it seems that j2.com's free inbound faxes right to my mailbox is perfect for us and especially since it's free.
You're able to send faxes perfectly with MagicJack? Really? Please share how you've done this.

I have sent a couple of faxes this way, but generally numerous retries were required. I can just imagine if the recipient had a conventional paper fax machine they had a pile of partial faxes piled up from me.

I did find the sight of the MJ dongle in the USB port of my laptop, connected via a short phone cord to the RJ11 jack of the very same laptop to be rather amusing though.

As for receiving faxes, I use k7.net which works fine. As I only receive faxes occasionally, it posed a problem as they'll re-assign your number after a month of inactivity. With the first fax # I had with them, I had to inform a law firm that the privileged correspondence they were sending wasn't going to the intended recipient. Then I lost that same number a short time later.

So to ensure that I have a reasonable chance of keeping the replacement number which appears on my business cards, I did some Googling to find a free weekly fax mailing list, which goes straight into my junk folder. A bit of a messy hack to be sure, but it works.
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TrustFax.com

Post by ccemoaec »

Hi Everyone,

I have had TrustFax.com service for several years. I get incoming faxes in my email (also stored on the server for retrieval), and I can send via the web site by uploading a word, pdf, or several other formats to the server and filling in the info needed to send.

Several plans are available, including their new Power plan at $29.95/YEAR.

I got in on this service early, and still have my $10/year (plus $0.10/page) rate. No problems with the service yet.

Just one more option to consider. 8)
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Post by couch-potato »

Does anyone know of any internet fax service that will assign a Canadian area code?

I know that MyFax will, are there any others?
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Post by calgaryhero »

couch-potato wrote:Does anyone know of any internet fax service that will assign a Canadian area code?

I know that MyFax will, are there any others?

www.ufax.net you can port numbers to them as well. Great service
magicjack6666
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ok

Post by magicjack6666 »

thanks calgaryhero good tip so far looks like the best. If anyone is using it can they give us their opinion.
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