Hi Michael, In this case, I have no interest in providing ANY maintenance for their payphones, and no desire to make money from the payphones either. But they have not been able to find any payphone providers (other than Verizon) in their area. Verizon will charge them a monthly fee AND collect all money from the phones. Installation fee $275 per phone plus $75 per month per phone , includes cost of the line- but all worries fall on Verizon. As opposed to purchasing a private payphone -$200 to $500 plus monthly line charges but they keep any profit (minimal I'm sure).
It will be a Buddhist retreat center, so vandalism is not too much of a worry. At this point they are shopping on the internet. They would like me to install the wiring for the payphones (or possibly connect them to their D1232). They will probably listen to whatever advice I can give them. thanks Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael N. Marcus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charles P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:32 AM Subject: Re: [kxtd] Payphones > Hi, Charles... > > Two comments: > > (1) They've gotten much easier to use. > > (2) Big problem with payphones is vandalism and attempted theft. A few years > ago we installed a genuine ATT payphone in your neighborhood (inside a nice > doctors' building on Tarrytown Rd.). No one ever broke into it, but each > year several people cut the armored handset cable or tried to get the phone > off the wall. > > Unless you are prepared to do lots of maintenance and get late-night calls > from people who claim to have lost quarters, I recommend that you let > someone in the payphone business handle it. Sometimes you make more profit > by turning down business. > > Michael N. Marcus > AbleComm, Inc. > www.ablecomm.com etc. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "KXTD List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:18 AM > Subject: [kxtd] Payphones > > > > Has anyone used the G-Tel type of desk top payphones? > > > > I have a customer with a D1232 who needs at least two payphones installed. > > Verizon charges too much (monthly) so they are interested in the GTel type > > of phone. > > > > A long time ago I used one like that, it needed a special chip to be able > to > > work on a pbx (auto dialed 9) and to set up the toll levels. They also > used > > to have to Push once to Talk button that confused people. > > > > Now it seems that they did away with the talk button and are fully > > programmable from the keypad. > > > > Question is, are they as easy enough to use now, so people won't get > > confused by them? > > > > Or does anyone know a payphone install/service company in the NY area > (upper > > Westchester County). > > > > > > thanks > > Charles > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> > > Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty > Dollars for Trying! > > http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/i5gGAA/E6uqlB/TM > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > > The web site for this group is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kxtd > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
