GE 29878GE1 Digital Messaging System

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Summary: Poor Quality, Short Life
Review: This answering machine lost power after 1 month and when I plugged it in it beeped forever and stopped working. I had a similar failure with my previous GE answering machine and had to throw both of them away. I've never heard of this trouble with other brands, but I should have known better as every GE thing I've ever had the misfortune of working with has broken.

Learn from my horrible experience and do not buy a GE consumer product, fly in a plane with a GE engine, buy GE stock, or believe Jack Welch when he says he isn't a crook. And then write your congressman, suggesting he or she pass a law requiring GE to produce nothing but light bulbs. If you don't do all of those things, just be very sure not to buy a GE answering machine.

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Summary: GE answering machines sound bad once or twice and then break
Review: This answering machine lost power after 1 month and when I plugged it in it beeped forever and stopped working. I had a similar failure with my previous GE answering machine and had to throw both of them away. I've never heard of this trouble with other brands, but I should have known better as every GE thing I've ever had the misfortune of working with has broken.

Learn from my horrible experience and do not buy a GE consumer product, fly in a plane with a GE engine, buy GE stock, or believe Jack Welch when he says he isn't a crook. And then write your congressman, suggesting he or she pass a law requiring GE to produce nothing but light bulbs. If you don't do all of those things, just be very sure not to buy a GE answering machine.

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Summary: I give NO STAR if I can...
Review: THis is a junk machine. I bought one from bestbuy for 10 bucks just to try. But terrible experiance... its just a junk. Never buy any GE stuff. They dont have website to help with after buy stuff...like betteries/ cord/ ...NEVER GO with GE.

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Summary: HORRIBLE!
Review: This machine is a waste of money. The sound quality is terrible, and inaudible at times. There are no outstanding features, and what there is is junk. The one good thing about this machine is that you can dial in to retrieve messages - but again, it's so hard to hear, that that feature is a waste on this machine. Spend your money somewhere else!

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Summary: Does not work (correctly) with DSL
Review: With the DSL filter you can hear someone leaving a message but it doesn't actually register and record the message. Without the DSL filter it records the message but it's so garbled with interference that you can't understand it. I'll give it 3 stars despite these issues, because set up was easy and it works without DSL (as well as can be expected for a CHEAP product).

If you have DSL only buy this: 1-to screen calls when you're home (with filter on), 2-to set an outgoing only message, 3-for any sort of target practice, or 4-to dissect for a science project...

Rating:
Summary: Does not work (correctly) with DSL
Review: With the DSL filter you can hear someone leaving a message but it doesn't actually register and record the message. Without the DSL filter it records the message but it's so garbled with interference that you can't understand it. I'll give it 3 stars despite these issues, because set up was easy and it works without DSL (as well as can be expected for a CHEAP product).

If you have DSL only buy this: 1-to screen calls when you're home (with filter on), 2-to set an outgoing only message, 3-for any sort of target practice, or 4-to dissect for a science project...