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I don't know what happened to the zapper maker, but the new one is about as useful as mammaries on a boar hog.
The telezapper worked great for stopping the calls from telemarketers,However I now have a loud buzzing on my phone you can barely he anyone talking on it even with the telezapped disconnected the buzzing is still there, I don't know if messed up my phone or the phone lines if I had to but it again I think I would pass
But I'll give it more time for now. I've only had the Tel-zapper for about a month and I still get just as many annoying calls.
The only "con" is that 1-2 per week still get through and you have to listen to those beeping tones every time there is an incoming or outgoing fax. At 3+ cents each for paper and toner, we are saving over $30 PER YEAR (and the environmental savings of ~1000 PAGES PER YEAR).It doesn't affect the normal operation of the fax in any way. Fair trade off.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Our business fax # used to get several unsolicited faxes each day. NO MORE.
I still get calls from some charities, pollsters, and (especially in election season) political organizations, but (after a few bursts of them) none from credit-help or mortgage types. Put this gadget between the phone cord and the phone (assuming you have the standard modular connectors, and who hasn't these days). The idea is that any automatic-dial system will detect those, hang up, and mark your number as a dead number. If you use your phone for a lot of short calls, you may need a new cell in a year or two.
Lithium cells usually have a long shelf life, but occasionally they fail from sitting for a few years. A new one will cost you between fifty cents and five dollars: CVS drugstores used to have a house-label two-pack on the cheap, but I have not seen that of late. You probably will.If you buy one of these at a discount, it may not work at first: it's powered by a CR 2032 lithium cell, as used in fine motherboards, cheap blood glucose meters, LED flashlights, and maybe some car remote-entry fobs. I've gotten tolerant of hearing those jarring tones EVERY TIME I pick up the phone.
Maybe. For all I know, some automatic systems simply call every possible number in an area, and don't flag the disconnected ones, real or fake, as numbers to avoid later. When you pick up the phone, this thing plays those three intentionally-ugly off-pitch chords that precede a "this number is not in service" message from the phone company. I get a fair number of callers hanging up just after I pick up the phone, and I get fewer calls and answering-machine messages altogether than when I didn't have a Telezapper.
Maybe. If you say nothing for a few seconds after picking up the phone (or your answering machine message has a similar initial silence), you might even fool a human caller who knows what the tones mean. Right.Will this fake notice of your phone number's demise reduce the number of calls you get.
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