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Low battery, low battery, low battery. Horrible, horrible machine.

I purchased this machine less than a year ago and it is terrible. The sound quality of the digital messages is poor at best. You have to listen to a message several times to be able to understand what someone is saying. Also, after 6 months the LCD light stopped working, and now it has stopped answering all together. Do yourself a favor and buy another machine.

I'm very disappointed with this machine, it is a total piece of crap. Messages are so garbled I need to play them back 4-5 times and still can't understand them. The volume also wavers during playback. Most of my messages are cut off after a few seconds. Now it doesn't take messages at all. I gave it one star but it deserves much less than that. I would give it a negative 10 stars.
In summary, DO NOT BUY!

My experience with this has been okay. I've had mine two or three years at least. The message audio quality is understandable but could be much better. I don't get a lot of calls and just needed something to take an occasional message when I'm out or screening calls. This has worked just fine - up to now. I just realized that it's started cutting callers off after 15 seconds, even though the recorded voice verifies that it's set for 2 minute record time (can computers lie?), so I'll be replacing it soon. All in all, it's been okay, but like the others say, I guess you get what you pay for.

I just bought this hunk-o-junk answering machine and it barely works at all. My outgoing message is warped and the machine hung up on everyone after 15 seconds. I could barely understand every other word of the few message clips I did get. I'll be returning it asap.