Thats the implication I guess. They suck you into buying a cheap POS
answering machine and when you complain about it acting up, ATT tells
you to sign up for the caller ID feature at an additional monthly cost.
They win, the consumer loses.

Mark Lloyd wrote:

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My elderly neighbor bought a new ATT branded digital machine that had
the time stamp. "great feature", the designers didn't think to put a
back up battery in the device. Whenever the lights blinked (often
happens in Florida) the unit would shut down and do nothing except a
blinky light show until someone reentered all the time settings via the
multifunction button sequence. My neighbor couldn't figure it out and
frankly I thought the device was a PITA and a POS.




Now, if you have caller ID it could set the clock from that.



I simply ask callers to tell me when they called and why in my outgoing
messages.


Thats the implication I guess. They suck you into buying a cheap POS
answering machine and when you complain about it acting up, ATT tells
you to sign up for the caller ID feature at an additional monthly cost.
They win, the consumer loses.

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