Shopping is Hard Work
Feb. 8th, 2009 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisI don't remember shopping ever being this difficult before. Perhaps I'm just out of practice.
I'm trying to find a new office telephone. It needs to handle single-line analog and allow for a wireless headset. At first, I was thinking of one for the home office but if I can get the correct headset --the full earmuff style rather than the cram-into-your-auditory-canal earbuds which never fit me and destroy my hearing-- I'd love to have one at the data center too, to stay in contact with HQ, drown out the ambient noise and allow me to move freely between racks.
I've found a couple of candidates online but they're hideously expensive... $200+ USD. I thought of just a deskset with a bluetooth headset but most of the headsets in the style I want are $175 USD or more. Purchasing two such systems would be prohibitively expensive.
Anyone have ideas or recommendations?
I'm trying to find a new office telephone. It needs to handle single-line analog and allow for a wireless headset. At first, I was thinking of one for the home office but if I can get the correct headset --the full earmuff style rather than the cram-into-your-auditory-canal earbuds which never fit me and destroy my hearing-- I'd love to have one at the data center too, to stay in contact with HQ, drown out the ambient noise and allow me to move freely between racks.
I've found a couple of candidates online but they're hideously expensive... $200+ USD. I thought of just a deskset with a bluetooth headset but most of the headsets in the style I want are $175 USD or more. Purchasing two such systems would be prohibitively expensive.
Anyone have ideas or recommendations?
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Date: 2009-02-09 02:41 am (UTC)Don't worry about the phone; worry about the headset. It's not that hard to find a desk phone with a headset jack. Hell, the AT&T 992 (2-line) analog phone I bought for Mom a couple of years ago has a headset jack.
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Date: 2009-02-09 02:59 am (UTC)http://www.hellodirect.com
On the main page choose phones then choose single line phones. I've dealt with these people several times before. They don't have the most bottom priced units but they have excellent customer service. You can also see what they have and do a web search for best price for the particular model and not necessarily shop at HD.
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