[Asterisk-biz] alternative to efax needed

[Paul]

Looks like thay are better than efax, but still not quite in tune with 
what people really need/want.

I also think the pricing model is absolutely wrong.

steve wrote:

>Paul:
>
>Switch to Rapidfax.com   I used to use efax and they are screwed up.
>
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
>[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Paul
>Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:42 AM
>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>Subject: [Asterisk-biz] alternative to efax needed
>
>The only good thing I can possibly say about efax support is that it is 
>so kind of them to hire so many mentally challenged folks.
>
>I have had a $12.95/month number with them for a few years. I get less 
>than 25 faxes per month and about half of them are junk faxes. I used 
>the send feature a few times but a few months ago it stopped working 
>with firefox/linux so I just went ahead and plugged my hp all-in-one 
>into a phone line for sending.
>
>Anyway, I recently logged into the account and changed the credit card 
>on file. Because the outgoing prepay balance was below $2 they attempted 
>to charge the card $10. I kindly asked them if they could just credit my 
>usage balance 60 cents to make it $2.10 since I have no intention of 
>ever using them for sending again. The result of this is a few emails 
>explaining what I already know about the $2 threshhold triggering a $10 
>charge. My messages to them have simply stated that if they won't credit 
>me 60 cents I will cancel the service entirely.
>
>Anybody here offering good alternatives to efax/j2? Note that local DID 
>is no longer much of a feature since nobody in US48 should be paying 
>nore than 4c these days. Security is important. The simplest 
>implementation I can think of is to only send notification email and let 
>the subscriber pick up the file via https. I actually think that 
>approach is best for SOHO voip-ers. I have seen call quality degrade 
>while emails with large attachments are arriving.
>
>There are several other things I can suggest if anybody here is serious 
>about getting into this market. I setup hylafax without problems over 4 
>years ago. I had no problem getting it so email the faxes as a pdf 
>attachment. The only reason I did not use it for production is that even 
>with my centrex contract it did not make sense to dedicate a line for a 
>dozen faxes per month. I believe the market for this type of service 
>improves as fax usage declines.
>
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