Do you ever send or receive faxes?

[kangalou]

I´m just about to get some new business cards printed, a very big batch and was just wondering if its worth paying out for a fax number (I have a VOIP phone number and would get a VOIP fax no. too). It would only be £2 a month but if I never use it then thats £24 a year wasted...

So are faxes ever used these days?

Thanks

[Emsickle]

I tend to email pdf documents or letters rather than fax these days and all of my suppliers and customers seem more than happy with that and are going the same way.

[stour]

unless your voip signal is really good your faxes will suffer any way.

we only keep the fax for our agents. to be honest i don't think it'll be long before they're shoved in the skip.

[sizzlingscience]

There was a fax machine in the guest house when we moved in but we skipped, cause we just got sent junk.

The odd occasion we need to fax something, we scan it in and email it.

I wouldn't bother to be honest.

[naturalnursery]

We have been running now for 4 plus years and never had to send a fax. The only time I might have needed to, Arianna very kindly scanned it and emailed it for me - we do have a scanner but have lots the lead for it!

Axx

[Slug]

My uncle sometimes sends a fax from Zimbabwe but only because he doesn't trust the post from there. Apart from him I don't think I know anyone who regularly uses them these days.
Gail.

[lajlaj]

The only time we send faxes is when we need to send them to the bank to authorise CHAPS payments to our manufacturers, trouble is the fax machine broke in transit and I don't have one now so am finding that difficult but object to buying a new machine just for one or two uses a month.

[kangalou]

Thanks ladies! That is very helpful.

As the general consensus seems to be no, I don´t think i´ll bother getting one.

Louise

[partybabe]

I have a voip fax number but it doesn't actually send the faxes to me(they forward them on via email), I have used it a couple of times but that is all. I wanted to have one to give people another way of getting in touch and considering the low cost I am happy to have it.

[Chiggs]

I think I've sent/received about 4 faxes in the 3 years I've had a fax machine!- I use the same number as my ordinary phone number, and say 'faxes by appointment' so people have phoned the ordinary number first, giving me time to plug the fax in.

Once i answered the phone to a 'fax' type noise, so plugged the fax in on the off chance, they tried again and an order was faxed through! It all does seem so last millennium, though :cheesy:

Nadine, this may work for you-I got my fax machine free from freecycle, a company had 4 on offer as they were getting rid of them as they weren't using them. Even gave me some ink, too!

[friendlybaby]

The only time we send faxes is when we need to send them to the bank to authorise CHAPS payments to our manufacturers, trouble is the fax machine broke in transit and I don't have one now so am finding that difficult but object to buying a new machine just for one or two uses a month.

Do you really need to use CHAPS payments now? With the FPS most payments are going through within 2 hours anyway. Also I noticed a while ago that if I set up the facility to make CHAPS payments online in advance of ever needing it (I think they needed something like 24-48 hours warning before the first one) I could authorise CHAPS payments online through my HSBC banking. Sorry I know that is completely off topic.

[blush]

We don't have a fax machine, thats how often we use one! We email everything to be honest .