# Any problems with eFax? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-problems-with-efax/216544 "2003-12-02T18:32:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-problems-with-efax/216544/1 "2003-12-02T18:32:44Z")
I’ve been using efax for about 2 years. Lately people tell me they sent me faxes but I don’t receive them. Anyone else have this problem or other problems with this online fax service? Of course, when I had the fax machine hooked up to receive paper faxes, the same thing also happened occasionally. [http://www.efax.com/](http://www.efax.com/) ---
**Author:** ![sarclmbr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@sarclmbr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sarclmbr)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-problems-with-efax/216544/2 "2003-12-02T19:56:37Z")
It’s never happened to me and I have been using it for well over 2 years. My only nit pick is that I have been recieving more and more spam from them over the last year. . . but I guess that is expected when they give you something for “free”. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-problems-with-efax/216544/3 "2003-12-02T20:29:24Z")
I occasionally have folks swear that they’ve FAXed me something that I never get, but every time I test it by FAXing something to myself (whether from computer or stand-alone FAX machine) it works fine. I think more often than not they’re just not putting in the area code, or their FAX machine isn’t set up to FAX to long-distance numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-problems-with-efax/216544/4 "2003-12-03T02:52:59Z")
Thanks for info. My experience is more like that of **AHunter3** lately. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-problems-with-efax/216544/5 "2003-12-03T03:06:16Z")
The only problems I’ve ever had with eFax were in trying to send a fax overseas. Everything here at home works just fine. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-problems-with-efax/216544/6 "2003-12-03T13:16:18Z")
I have the paid efax service and have for some years. I occationally don’t get faxes that were sent, mainly during off peak hours, usually from one client that works from home at odd hours (i.e. 3am). Funny thing is I got efax BECAUSE he faxes at such odd hours and my wife has mild insomnia and the fax would wake her up (which ='s wake me up). Since I work out of my home, and also sometimes at a remote site, or hotels or sometimes my car via cellular internet, efax has become very handy to have. The junk faxes do happen, which I really hate because sometimes I get them when using the cellular connection ($ and long download time). but I don’t get that many and they come in waves (like 4 one week then nothing for the next 3). ---
**Author:** ![JohnBarleycorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@JohnBarleycorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBarleycorn)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-problems-with-efax/216544/7 "2003-12-03T18:05:17Z")
I had two free incoming lines. They recently (this month) dropped one of the lines for not being active enough. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-problems-with-efax/216544/8 "2003-12-04T20:25:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JohnBarleycorn \* > \*\*I had two free incoming lines. > They recently (this month) dropped one of the lines for not being active enough. \*\* Thanks for this bit of info. Maybe that’s the problem. Will check.