"When did you last FAX an order?" Topic

How long has it been since you last faxed in your order to a hobby shop or manufacturer or publisher?

I have never faxed an order.

Never.

Never.

What is this 'Fax' you speak of!??

Never

Never.

Twenty plus or so years ago …

Never. I went from mailing forms with checks, to phoning in credit card info, to the interwebz.

Never

Wow. Fax, now there's a term I haven't heard in ages. Last order I faxed was for work, not hobby, and I retired twenty years ago.

Never

We still use FAX at work for things like patient referrals as we are a bit edgy about using email for that as per confidentiality – but everything else is electronic

I don't remember ever faxing an order for hobby stuff.

I have to support fax machines at work. What a pain they are on a digital phone system.

Never.

I think my last hobby-related faxes were motel reservations. Not sure I ever had to buy castings or books that way. Letter with enclosed checks, of course--but I think even that might go back 20 years or more.

Never.

A very long time ago.

But I was an early adopter, my fellow gamers were still using stone tablets at the time.

Rick

Never

1999? maybe?

A couple years back, I faxed an order to Navwar. I've also snail mailed them even more recently. Slightly old school methods but outstanding service.

12 to 15 years ago.

Never. But I still have a FAX/phone at my home in Thailand, it's still an important part of the business world there.

Never

Two weeks ago, but it was for stuff for my mother and sister, not wargaming.

Never.

A year after i sent a S.A.S.E. and waited 6 to 8 weeks for a mimeographed
Typed catalog.

Never.

Never for an order. All the time in my job that I retired from .

At least a dozen years ago.
And I don't miss them.
It was exciting to do a fax to germany to book a training course in 1991, but the fun was short lived.

I've faxed an order to NavWar in the relatively recent past. The order was filled very quickly and received in New York within the week which is much quicker than many web orders.

Fax….no I've modernized to carrier pigeon

Nope, never did that.

Hobby – never.
To the VA because of their awesome "infrastructure" – last week.

early 90s

Somehow I missed out on that technological marvel.
Occasionally we used it at work. It felt so high tech!
All my printers had that capability, but I never bothered.

I remember that faxes became a thing at work in the mid 80's, due to a postal strike.
Never for the hobby: had to go to the office in a blizzard a fortnight ago to check if there had been a fax sent.

Another never-never for the hobby.

I sent a fax because they never answered the phone. It must have been approx. 2003, when I sent a 12 page fax to New Wave, describing how after double billing me and not shipping my order for the previous 12 months that I was going to take them to court for mail fraud.

Later that day they told me they didn't have time to research my case, and didn't understand why I was so upset, but that they would go ahead and issue a refund. Which they actually did!

Never

I vaguely remember fax machines and the weird squawking noise they would make. I never used them for any personal purpose.

I think that I did it last back when Johnson Hood was running Wargames.

1786

I cant remember when I last used a fax for anything. The option is still there on our printers at work.

Back in the 80's, our office acquired a fax machine. I wondered if we really needed this fancy new fangled gadget.

Next week there was a national postal strike….

Some years ago now, I was working with some plans for a hospital's communications rough-in (we were the electricians providing the conduit for another subcontractor's wiring.) Symbols on the plans were identified in schedules or other documents. Except for one. A symbol was on many floors that was a square turned 45° with its vertices north, west, east, south and with a vertical line in the center.

I sent a photocopy of one by fax to the architect/engineer links. They replied, "Is that a 1 (one) or an I (capital letter)?"

| <--- the symbol

Your people created the drawing. That's what I want you to tell me and what it stands for.

Somehow the hospital got built, but I've not relied on fax since except for a few items of a legal nature, where they certainly haven't embraced the power of computers. A fax of a notary public's stamp is so much more real than anything else.