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Right now I`m using Send2Fax. It works "ok", not great.

I did some searches and MyFax seems good. Efax is probably the most popular.

The thing is that I don`t forsee myself using a fax at all. $10 a month seems unecessary...

How often do you use faxes? I have a PDF scanner and send most things on email, but some people still want faxes for some reason or another. 

If you don`t expect to ever FAX anything, why bother? EFAx is the best, and most widely known, and give you that access via email.

But you can buy a FAX machine for under $45 and use it only when you need it.

I don`t have a land line. I use skype + cell phone. 

I had to fax a bid over to someone...they didn`t want emails for some reason.

some people are surprisingly tech-averse, esp. when it comes to having signatures. I personally scan and email everything, but not everyone does.     

I thought nobody much used FAX machines anymore, until I started doing some work for a real estate broker. There, the FAX is easily the most used office machine next to the computer.

The main problem is when a page or several of a contract has to be changed, then initialed or re-signed. You can`t email a contract, but you can email a scanned PDF of that file. So? What happens next? How does it then get signed?

One option is for the recipient to print out the PDF, sign the pages, then re-scan, then re-convert to PDF, then re-email. WAY too much work, and far easier to just send a FAX.

With so many people getting rid of land-lines completely, it`ll be interesting to see what happens in terms of FAX machines. One option I`ve used, since I do so little FAXing on a personal level, is to just send it via Fed-Ex (Kinko`s), or a friend`s machine.

Ultimately, though, eFAX is your best bet. Then all you need is a priner and a scanner. You`ll scan the contract or bid, send it via eFAX and it`ll print out on the receiver`s machine as paper. Or, if I`m remembering right, you just "upload" a Word doc, PowerPoint page, graphic, or whatever else, and it becomes a FAX from their end.

If they FAX it back to you, it`ll arrive as an email attachment, which you then can print out at your leisure.

Indeed. That`s how I have generally been doing it with my Send2Fax account, which I am not that thrilled about the contact managaement.  I`m trying to see the differences between Efax and Myfax.

I`d like to be able to fax directly from outlook.  That`d be cool. 

eFAX offers a 30-day free trial period. They`re totally legit, and have been around for at least 10 years, so it`s not like they`re going to rip you off if you register a CC number with them.

Do you know of any fax services that let you pay by the fax? We have a fax machine, but rarely ever need it. Not enough to warrant a second line. Unhooking the phone and hooking up the fax isn`t a problem when we want to send one, but we never know when we are going to receive a fax. Are there any services that let us pay per fax, instead of a monthly fee?


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It sounds like you all would be better off without a fax machine altogether, honestly. If you sign up with an online fax service, like eFax or MyFax, you won't need to worry about not having a second phone line since incoming faxes would just go to your email or online fax account.

Plus there are a bunch of online fax companies that have pay-per-fax options, like SFax's Freedom Plan - it's $24 a year and works on a credit system. Once you go through 100 faxes, you can buy more credits as needed.

In case you're interested, here's a site I've used before (it's actually where I got all my info): http://findafax.com/

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