Office Telephone System Recommendations ?

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Q. We are currently shopping around for a office telephone system. We do not need anything fancy (we have 4 lines, 8-10 phones).

A. You should check out the TMC ET4000 "epic phone". It would also allow you to easily add some cordless phones and music on hold. Two year warranty and feature rich. We are in a similiar situation and have been looking hard at the BizFone System (http://www.bizfon.com/affordable.htm). It meets some of your mentioned requirements specifically upgradeable/expandable, and cost effective. We have not actually acquired this system yet, but due to the same reasons you mentioned we likely will go this route over the other choices available. At $1900 retail for the base cabinet of 6x8, it's going to be tough to get 10 phones in a system for less than $2k :-) As a salesman, it's also going to be tough to convince a customer who starts with a 616 key system that a PBX is better when he didn't add any extra lines or phones. In a 6 line or less key system, there is no learning curve for a square system. Line 4 is line 4 on EVERY phone. There is no need to "Park" a call and pick it up by some convoluted key press sequence. Just for fun, let's take a couple of real world examples. An 8 phone Bizfon system is about $2700 with the funny 2-call display phones. An 8 phone multi-line 6x16 Panasonic system with all display phones is about $3000.00 with voice mail, or $2350 without. The 9th and 10th funny-phone in Bizfon will cost you another $2350 since you now have to expand the cabinet to a 12x16. In Panasonic about $340 since you already have a 6x16 system The Bizfon fits a very specific niche market. I'm sure that anyone can compare it to a

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