Classic Rotary Dial Telephone: Antique Black Phone

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Bold Old Phones Just as seen on the hit TV show Mad Men ! Buy with confidence! We are the largest seller of this model phone on eBay. Our phones have the modern modular plug and are guaranteed to work with your home's telephone ** system. We have sold thousands of these phones to satisfied eBay buyers. Check our Feedback ! While our Classic Black Telephones have been in service for many years and will show normal wear patterns, we have tested, cleaned, and polished these phones. Advantages to Buying from BoldOldPhones : Buy It Now pricing means you can purchase a phone from us immediately without waiting to see if you will win an auction Our phones are tested using a ten point test and are Guaranteed to work with your home's telephone system! ** Others on eBay are selling phones that they found in a garage, shed, or at a flea market without knowing how to fully test them if they bother to try to test them at all. Even if you don't buy from us, please avoid buying a telephone "as is" or "untested." Just trust us on that point. Plug and Play! Our mid-century modern telephones have the modern modular plug (RJ-11) which means you can plug the phone into your house telephone jack ** and make a call! Other people are selling phones with the four-prong plug that doesn't fit most homes of today -- or no plug at all! We include a FREE history of the Model 500 rotary dial telephone because so much of the fun in owning antiques is in being able to tell people something about them! Flat Fee Priority Mail Shipping makes it easy to know your costs before you buy, whether you are in the U.S. or are overseas! Our phones look great! We are a Paypal Verified Merchant and have sold over 3,000 of these phones to satisfied internet customers. Check out our feedback! Frequently Asked Qu estions : Are these reproduction or replica telephones ? NO! -- These original phones are already 30 to 50 years old and work great! A small, local phone company put these phones in storage in the 1980's as the touch-tone models replaced rotary phones in homes. We purchased them when the company needed to free up that storage space. They have the adjustable ringer that can wake the dead and the large magnets in the handset for a really clear sound. Will these phones work outside the United States (UK, Canada, Germany, etc.)? YES! -- we have sold dozens of these phones outside the United States and you can look though our positive feedback to prove they worked well on arrival. **Will these phones work with DSL or Cable Phone (VOIP) systems? Maybe?? -- Our phones will work with your home's standard telephone system but were invented before computer networks like the internet. We have found that a DSL filter usually allows our phones to connect to a DSL line without any problems. As to VOIP systems (i.e. Vonage, MagicJack, your cable company's phone system) , we have seen our phones work with some VOIP systems and not with others. It is not the phone's fault! Many of these new internet phone systems are poorly engineered and some cannot "backward integrate" telephones in use before the Internet Age . DSL seems to work better than VOIP from what we have seen. Oops-- I have a VOIP system-- What can I do? If you run into any problems connecting to your cable internet phone system, simply ask your internet system provider if there is an adapter needed to make the rotary dial phone work with their system. Sometimes without an adapter their systems will not recognize the rotary phone's pulse dialing or the ringer may not ring because older phones like ours required more voltage to make the bells ring. If you cannot use an actual rotary dial phone, then Check Out Our Replicas ! -- they have touch tone buttons where the dial goes and they will work with the new VOIP systems. Do VOIP systems really make sense? When you dial 9-1-1, don't you want the police or fire department to be able to find you? As many complaints as people have about their cable TV service, we have never understood why people want to h... read more

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