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My Fax by Email Quest

As an affiliate, I need to fax documents every now and then. Not often enough to buy a fax machine, but still. Every time I sign up with an affiliate program, they will normally ask me to fill out and fax them a tax form. If you’re a home-based affiliate marketer without all the traditional office equipment, you will find this story useful.

You may have heard about these services that will help you send faxes right off your computer - so have I. I had no idea whether these services are free or paid - and if they are paid of course I wanted to make sure they actually work and not just charge me, so a free trial would have been really handy. At first, I remembered that a friend of mine had once mentioned efax.com - so naturally my first choice was to go look at them.

Well, I must tell you efax.com absolutely SUCKS! They do have a free trial, but here’s what happened. I registered a trial account with them and everything seemed fine so I thought I’d try faxing my documents the next day. Not so easy! The next day I signed in only to find out they didn’t like my credit card. I tried two more cards (all three were used to pay in multiple other places - no problem ever) - no luck again. Their support was absolutely useless as well so I just demanded that they close my account and went on to look further.

I headed to Google and ran a quick search. Google returned almost 9 million results for “send a fax by email” - wow that’s impressive. What have we got here?

The first one was TPC Fax (tpc.int) - a site last updated in 2001. You see, in the old days of non-monetized Internet there was a community initiative to support sending faxes by email through privately operated printer servers. This was a free community service supported exclusively by good will of people participating in this project. Well that was a long time ago. I don’t know how reliable or widespread it was, but currently it is not working any more.

Digging through a bunch of FAQ’s and equally old sites that are of no use any longer, next I got to trustfax.com - they have a free trial as well, but their free trial outgoing faxes are watermarked. Not good, I thought.

Next one I checked was interfax.net - this one has got no free trial. Having had enough bad experience by now, I didn’t risk signing up with a service that I couldn’t test first.

Next site I found was maxemail.com - and luckily my search was over here! They let you send 5 trial faxes during the 30-day trial period. Their support is very friendly and personal. You get email confirmations for the faxes you send. I have sent 3 faxes so far and they were all successful. I am now considering upgrading to a paid plan with them. I am really happy about their service.