It's summer time. Barbeques. Beach. Hurricanes. Blackouts. Power shortages. Don't get caught defenseless. Did you know that during a power failure, your cordless phone will not work (even with a fully charged battery)? The Cordless Phone Emergency Backup automatically provides power to the cordless phone base unit, enabling you to make important calling the power company, police/fire department, family/friends, etc. The phone automatically activates when the power goes out and provides over 4 hours of continuous talk time. The unit is also equipped with a built in phone line surge and spike protection. One retails for almost $10.00 plus shipping. We will send you 2 for $6.99 plus shipping. That's a 40% savings.

That's from the description. However, they're charging $6.99 not $5.99. I've noticed that a lot on this site. The description says one price, but the actual price is completely different. What's the deal?

Kevin

I am trying to order this but the system is not playing nicely with paypal and now it has locked me out from trying again! What gives!!

Good idea if it were years ago but considering most people have cellular phones and some don't even have a land line anymore, it doesn't seem like this would be a big seller but then I am not really grounded in reality these days.

I simply plug in a corded backup in the event of a power failure. Sometimes it pays NOT to throw everything out (can you say packrat?), LOL...

I've kept my wireless router and phones on a UPS for some time - thanks to a closeout at the local store that had a table of them for $10 each. One on my phone, one on my router, one on my garage door opener... now if I could only find solar cells to charge those batteries I would be very green!

rechargeable Lead-Acid

the best kind for this type application.

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THIRTY-THREE Flings
I've flung $520.51
7/13/2008

Nice a lil ups for the tele. Opens up a plug on my apc. YES, I use VOIP

Thanks thingfling.


Never shagged, Why? ..... Because I order too often. lol

Sorry to confuse, bout time to be uber. No? Where can I find out more?

C'mon Royal Court...show Liammc some Love....

Wrote this earlier today, couldn't post till now cause coder and spy broke the forum (good job fixing it though!):

Argh, I keep missing these! They are similar to a unit by Bell South that thingfling included in one of the Holiday Edition mystery boxes way back around Xmas time last year. These things are awesome. They are mini UPSes ,Uninterpretable Power Supply, If you don't mind a much larger foot print you could wait for some cheap deals on some lower rated computer UPSes which would have the advantage of being able to plug more things in for backup.

But these little guys have the advantage of being small, and working with just about any ac adapter. Unlike traditional UPS devices you do not plug the original AC adapter from the device you're trying to backup in to the UPS, no with these you leave ac adapter plugged in to the wall, disconnect the round plug from whatever it is, plug that into one of the phone backup plugs (it has several to accommodate all sizes) and then plug an appropriate size head on the backup's output cable and plug that into the phone/device.

REMEMBER, these are marketed as being cordless phone backups, BUT they will work on practically anything with a standard round plug ya find on most AC adapters. If you don't already have your modem on a conventional UPS for example, you could plug it into one of these to provide backup power to it. (course, you'd probably then also want a conventional UPS to plug into your computer too so you could actually make use of the modem during the power outage)

Not everyone has done away with their land line. We still have ours here. And during a true emergency situation it is best to have all options available to you. We had a big power outage a couple of weeks ago due to a tree falling on a main power artery during a big thunderstorm--for a while the cell towers seemed out of commission while landline was working.

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For your information(and my sanity):
The ThingFling FAQ plus glossary of commonly used terms by Melmo.
Tools for better and faster flinging (secrets revealed!) by Scaredwitless
A vision of the royal court by Ava
Thingflings Member Gallery
Rankings and how you get them by thingfling(posted by milk86)
See the contents of past (almost) mystery boxes in the watcha got forum.
Just shagged: Greatest hits, and shags explained.
The OFFICIAL (By us!) TRADE yo flings thread.