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AT&T 1718 Digital Answering System with Time/Date Stamp (Espresso) *no caller ID

AT&T 1718 Digital Answering System with Time/Date Stamp (Espresso) *no caller ID

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pleasant Surprise
Review: After reading the horrible reviews on this answering machine I decided to take a chance. I've had it now for 2 months and I can honestly say it is the best answering machine I ever had. The sound is great, both incoming and outgoing, and it is very simple to program and operate. I especially like the remote features.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bunk Machine!
Review: I realize that all companies have defective products, and do not
intend for this review to be a personal slam against AT&T, but this machine proved an awful experience for me. I decided to take the jump into the digital answering machine world and I've yet to experience it! Upon setting the machine up, I found that the outgoing message did not work, playing static with no recognizable words. I called the AT&T help line and it was determined after 15 minutes or so that I had a malfunctioning unit. What a bunk machine! So that has been my experience with this machine and I hesitate to purchase this model again.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: it's okay... at least it's digital
Review: Since it was our first digital answering machine, anything could impress us! So basically it's easy to use and that's good enough for me, I'm not planning on replacing it anytime soon. My only complaint is that if there is a power outage, you lose the correct time and also the date,... so it's all off until you reset it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pleasant Surprise
Review: This is the WORST answering machine I have ever owned since I first started using them over twenty years ago. It fails to record messages on a regular basis, it is very difficult to set the time and date, and worst of all, it does not allow the listener to re-play a message. If you do not obtain all of the information in the first go-around, you are S.O.L. This is really and truly a piece...!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A Piece of [junk]!
Review: This is the WORST answering machine I have ever owned since I first started using them over twenty years ago. It fails to record messages on a regular basis, it is very difficult to set the time and date, and worst of all, it does not allow the listener to re-play a message. If you do not obtain all of the information in the first go-around, you are S.O.L. This is really and truly a piece...!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Piece of [junk]
Review: This is the worst machine I've ever purchased. It won't replay messages so if you don't get it all the first time you're SOL. The memory fills up quickly with messages you can't listen to. Turning the machine off is the only way to dump the memory. It doesn't give you a date stamp, month day and year, it will only state the day of the week and time of the day which is not at all helpful. I never would have bought this piece of [junk] if I'd known it is an utterly unreliable useless machine.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Unhappy owner!
Review: This machine does not have a battery back up so if you have frequent power interuptions, do not buy it. You will lose your outgoing message and your time/date stamp every time. You can play back messages, but you have to hit repeat and play several times in an unknown sequence... I've just lucked out to get it to replay. It doesn't work the way the manual claims in this respect. And, my outgoing message doesn't sound like me according to callers and the incoming messages are so garbled we can hardly understand the message (which requires us to replay which is really frustrating -- see above). This is a terrible answering machine. Do not waste your money on it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bunk Machine!
Review: This model seems to possess the features I was looking for, including Remote Acess so I can change the message and review messages remotely. The price was fair. It seems to be fairly easy to operate with voice prompts etc. Voice prompts could be a little better.

The thing I don't like about it is the poor audio quality of the outgoing messages. When you record a message it sounds like a bad cellphone. It is extremely tinny sounding.

Also test this when you get it. I've noticed short messages don't always get saved, hence you could miss short messages.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Decent, not great
Review: This model seems to possess the features I was looking for, including Remote Acess so I can change the message and review messages remotely. The price was fair. It seems to be fairly easy to operate with voice prompts etc. Voice prompts could be a little better.

The thing I don't like about it is the poor audio quality of the outgoing messages. When you record a message it sounds like a bad cellphone. It is extremely tinny sounding.

Also test this when you get it. I've noticed short messages don't always get saved, hence you could miss short messages.


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