Siemens Gigaset 8800 Phone/Answering Machine

Siemens Phones

By Linda  Apr 13, 2004 | 4 out of 5 found this Siemens Gigaset 8800 review helpful

Pros: It was easy to buy...but ended up being a ripoff!

Cons: Equipment cannot perform basic functions, company does not support problems

DO NOT BUY SIEMENS!! THEIR EQUIPMENT IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE AND THEY DO NOT STAND BUY IT!!!In 2002 we purchased a Siemens phone system, a Gigaset 8825, consisting of a main anchor phone and five remote phones for our house. We bought it at Office Depo...t; the salesman there told us that Siemens did not have a good reputation but that they had improved. The system cost around $700. Then, a little over a year later we noticed that we couldn't pick up incoming phone calls. The phones would ring intermittently, but when we picked them up, the line was dead. We called Siemens, and they told us to restore the system defaults and reboot the system, which we did and have a neighbor call us (their support team would not make any test calls for us!). The main telephone, which is a corded phone, could not detect an incoming call. This didn't work, so we called back, and they told us that our system was no good and no longer any concern of theirs since it was out of warranty. When we inquired about repair, they told us they don't do repairs on out of warranty equipment. In other words, the system was junk. Barely two years old and junk with no options at all. Seven hundred dollars down the drain.How a phone making company can be in business and not even build a corded phone that can accept live calls from an incoming line is hard to understand.We find it remarkable that there isn't some sort of legal recourse for this kind of fraud. Read more Less