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Jim, I picked up Hotfax at CompUSA, but it is produced by SmithMicro at

http://www.smithmicro.com

It is 69.95 and is downloadable (48 MB)

The Version 5 shown on their product description has some really nice features that my older version doesn't have. I am going to have to do a little research to see if it meets my needs as I anticipate them to be.

For example, I intend to use eFax to have faxes go to my email. From my part of the country eFax costs 9.95 per month (using an 800 number) thus eliminating a commercial fax/phone line (about $70.00 per month), and it allows me to receive faxes as email rather a paper copy. Then I can retrieve the faxes anywhere I am using my laptop and cell phone (I use a sprint service with nationwide long distance....I can get my faxes and conduct business anywhere in the country). I set up an email account with hotmail that will notify me on my cell phone anytime I get email and will only use it for fax reception.

And there are a couple of other things I might be able to do as well that will further reduce my need for a room full of office hardware.

But it appears that with the new Hotfax if the cell phone is connected to the computer all the time, the mobile computer will act as a fax machine/answering machine which means that only the cell phone is needed......which makes it $9.95 I don't have to spend each month. I already print hard copies of reports at Kinkos so I don't have to mess with ink and printers and high speed/high dollar printers........my current printer cost me about $50.00.......and I charge for printing those reports I cannot pdf/email.

Like I said a while back, by spring (April sometime) my office will be in my briefcase....I intend to do away with everything but a file cabinet at that time.........and that file cabinet (hopefully) will become a wallet of cd's by the end of the year.


Thanks for the information, I was thinking Hotfax was a web site, like Efax, I have looking at efax also, but J2.com also does the same thing and seems a little cheaper. They have local numbers that are cheaper than the 800 numbers. The 800 numbers also have a charge per page for faxes you send, I believe.

There are a couple of fax web sites around and they are competing with each other with price, etc. Check them all out.

Jim McGrath
 
Greg,
Thanks for the idea. I dont have a set up like you explained but an appraiser I know has one similar.
I ran this by him and he thought, as I did that it might help in collecting an appraisal fee that was long past due.

The lender has an 800 fax and we started a past due notice running at 7:00 pm Friday night and its set to send every 5 min. till Monday morning. I know they have a bank of faxes connected so it may run several of them out of paper. I may not get the money but I will sure enjoy running the hell out their fax machines till I figure it has cost them double what they owe. If there is any response I will let you know.

Ron
 
LOL :lol: Maybe you could send them faxes during the day about 2 minutes apart.......If you have multiple computers and multiple lines, you might even shut down their business for a day (or however long you do it). After all, if they can't get a fax in that they want, they may pay you to quit.......would that be a form of extorsion? I know that if you get behind in payments they don't mind calling you several times a day to arrange payment........perhaps they should enjoy the experiance as well.
 
Excellent Greg! I'm printing this to tackle when I have a down time. Now, if I can just find the number for MCI's telemarketing department's fax..... :twisted: I would love to bombard a few pesky telemarketers with the 'I thought I asked you to remove me from your call list' fax.
 
Well folks I got some response from my little fax blitz. About 2:30 PM Saturday, after the fax running 3 pages every 5 minutes for over 20 hours I got a phone call from a very upset, screeching accounting supervisor. She does not work Saturdays and had been ordered in by her direct superior a V.P. who had stopped in to the office to pick up some very important correspondence that he was expecting. He had told her to take care of this mess, he was ticked and she was frothing at the mouth.

After she took a breath, I explained that I too was waiting for some very important correspondence called--MONEY and that it takes money to have fax systems repaired so that they dont go beserk and cause some of my favorite clients any undue hardships.

At this point she sort of stopped frothing at the mouth and said she would cut the check as soon as she got the fax machines loaded and before she left the office and would overnight it. Sure nuff she did, Igot the check and the $50.00 late charge Monday afternoon.

Ah yes, I think I gonna hafta fix that nasty old fax system now. But after this I'm sure its gonna go bonkers again....................

Ron
 
Ron! I love it!!!!

OK, you've convinced me. Now I'll have to get mine set up. I can hardly wait!

Thanks
 
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