FaxZero a terrific web based fax service for free
“I only take communication by fax?” I was told by my medical specialist. In a tone that brokered no negotiation on the subject.
What? Fax? Do they make those anymore?
I had to scratch my brunette head and really put on my thinking cap. I mean, a fax for communication instead of email? Or IM? Or SMS? Or …. Faxing?
Well there was no budging her, she was a fax fan and that was that. If I wanted to correspond on my medical history that was going to have to be by fax (to her locked office) or I’d be outta luck. So, being a frugal femme on a budget, like alot of my readers, I started poking about and found the unlikely product, FaxZero. A web based fax service.
When you first come to the FaxZero website you immediately see something that looks scammie. I mean, it just looks cheap and likely to take your information and then spam you to death. But while it has a certain retro feel, the Frugal Tech found FaxZero to be everything they say it is. Cheap, easy to use, and reliable. In multiple tests of both the free Faxzero service and the pay-as-you-go “premium” service our faxes went through without a hitch. We have never been bothered by them in soliciting us back either. In short, the system works terrific, is very handy as it is web based, is easy to use, has a free option and is a great value.
If you need to use a fax, the Frugal Tech at Beck’s Cafe raises her mug high to FaxZero.
GotFreeFax.com is another website that allows user to send free fax online to the US and Canada. User can either upload a PDF/Word file or enter text to fax. Plus, it does not add Ads to user’s fax and is suitable for faxing formal documents.
Thank you James for your comment, adding to the conversation here at Beck’s Cafe and letting our readers know about GotFreeFax. We’ll have to test GotFreeFax out some time and see if your service stacks up to our current favorite, FaxZero, and earns you a Beck’s Cafe Frugal Techie endorsement
As a general rule, our Frugal Tech is okay with ads on the “freemium” kinds of services. She (and all of at Beck’s Cafe) figure the outstanding talent that makes these kinds of services available has to be compensated someway; otherwise how else could they afford to keep providing such services or being able to afford one of our espresso’s at some point in the future
By the by, to our happy, caffeine charged readers, Om Malik has done a nice piece on the Freemium Business model; the comments are well worth a read as well.