gws@cblph.att.com (Gary W Sanders) (11/17/90)
In the latest Damark catalog I ran across an interesting telephone gizmo: Wireless phonejak by phonex. "Expand the phone system through your home or office with the phonex wireless phonejak. This easy to install phonejak system converts an AC outlet into a phone jack allows you to place your (*) phone, on any outlet in any room, indoors or out!" (*) not my bad typing, just as it appears in the ad. You get two units that plug into the wall. It looks like a carrier currnet phone extender. I wonder how well it works; has anyone used one? Can you use more than one unit? How well does it work with BSR devices? DAMARK 1-800-827-6767 Gary Sanders (N8EMR) AT&T Bell Labs, Columbus Ohio gws@cblph.att.com 614-860-5965
irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe) (11/20/90)
In <14772@accuvax.nwu.edu> gws@cblph.att.com (Gary W Sanders) writes: >In the latest Damark catalog I ran across an interesting telephone >gizmo: Wireless phonejak by phonex. I have ordered a few things from Damark and based on that experience would caution you to stay away. Everything -- CDs to skates to phone to floor lamps -- that I got from them was of low quality. Not bad enough to make a busy guy like me send them back, but bad enough to make me feel taken advantage of, and decide never to buy from them again. What looks like a bargain sometimes isn't. In their case, perhaps it always isn't. Damark feels like sleazebag scum to me! Irving Wolfe Happy Man Corp. irv@happym.wa.com 206/463-9399 ext.101 4410 SW Point Robinson Road, Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 fax ext.116
langz@eng.sun.com (Lang Zerner) (11/22/90)
In article <14859@accuvax.nwu.edu> irv@happym.wa.com writes: >In <14772@accuvax.nwu.edu> gws@cblph.att.com (Gary W Sanders) writes: >>In the latest Damark catalog I ran across an interesting telephone >>gizmo: Wireless phonejak by Phonex. >I have ordered a few things from Damark and based on that experience >would caution you to stay away. Everything -- CDs to skates to phone >to floor lamps -- that I got from them was of low quality. In defense of Damark, the two pieces of furniture that I've ordered from them were not of the *highest* quality, but they were satisfactory. After inadvertently ordering the wrong size futon mattress, they had a straightforward return policy (I shipped it back, they refunded; simple enough). I later ordered a folding frame for the futon which seems to be of decent quality. The instructions for assembling it were written by someone whose native language was not English; they were unusable, but I was able to figure out the process. In my experience, Damark is not a "sleazeball" store, but a typical mail-order "bargain basement" store. Their prices are reasonable, but you don't get frills. I know this message has only the most indirect connection to telecom, but since an emphatically negative opinion was braodcast in the Digest, I felt it only fair to provide some tempering evidence. I have no affiliation with Damark other than as a customer. Be seeing you... ==Lang langz@prodigal.sun.com 415/594-9268