ATS RA2184BB Pay n' Talk DECT 6.0 Telephone

I have had nothing but trouble with these phones. They are too small, the sound quality is poor (when they work), and they rarely work. I bought one set from Staples which quit working after about 2 days so the company sent me a replacement set which never worked. I am done with these phones, I am sending the replacements back and taking the originals back to Staples for my money back. I also aquired another cordless phone from American Telecom which has extreamly poor audio quality. It seems to me that American Telecom sells cheap junky phones and tries to make money on the prepaid long distance feature that comes on the phones. Don't bother unless you are in desperate need of a headache.

To the best of my knowledge, I've never written an Amazon.com review. But this phone has been so horrible, that I feel I've got to try to protect people from ever getting mixed up with this company.

The picture shown does not look exactly like the phones that I have, but everything else seems the same. In any case, just being the same company would be enough for me to say RUN--don't walk, away from this company.

I guess I should be thankful that they work at all, considering the other two reviews here. But here is an extremely partial list of the failings I've been annoyed with:

- Lets say the phone rings. Two people in different parts of the house try to grab it. I grab it, I say "Hello", and just as the caller starts to say who it is that is calling ("Hey, this is Joe!"), someone else in the house grabs the phone. This stupid system puts a 2 second tone on the line, blocking out what the caller says. I suppose it is to stop people from...Read more

THESE ARE THE WORST PHONES EVER!!!! THE SOUND IS HORRIBLE AND ONCE YOU HOOK THEM UP YOU CAN RECIEVE CALLS BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE THEM, IT KEEPS A DIAL TONE EVEN AFTER YOU DIAL AND IT GETS YOU NO WHERE. THE CALLER ID DOES NOT PICK UP CALLS WORTH ANYTHING. AND LED SCREEN DISPLAYS NEW ICONS EVEN AFTER YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH IT. AND THE BATTERY LIFE IS NOT THAT GREAT AT ALL. THESE ARE JUST WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME,