Ditto. It's the only reason I bought this:
Plug it in between your (land-line) phone and the mic-in jack on a computer, a cassette recorder, or anything else with a mic-in jack, and save your precious phone messages before they disappear.
Posted on 03/23/2012 12:06:48 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
For 51-year-old Faron Butler, the thing he cherished most after his daughter's death was being able to hear her voice.
"Every time I had a bad day or just wanted to listen to her I'd go through my old voicemails," Butler told ABCNews.com through tears. "I had one that I'd play over and over again. She'd be saying 'Daddy, I love you and I miss you.'"
He said he was shocked when a few weeks ago he went to hear that familiar voice, only to find out the voicemail had been erased
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Hey I completely understand Norm and I’m sorry to hear about your loss. I was just stating my opinion that it might be a beneficial thing for him as far as accepting what happened.
Grief is a complicated thing so I understand if people disagree with my opinion. Folks like you make good points while others just hurl profanity because they FEEL instead of THINK.
Oh, look! The family has photos, even video of the dear departed. It’s not like the family doesn’t have other ways to remember her.
But if you watch the story at the link, what is really at issue is the wireless phone company failed to tell the man that switching calling plans might cause the old voicemails to be deleted. The company has since apologized for not mentioning this and I’m sure if any backup recording of this still exists, they will find it.
Otherwise, this seems like a lot of drama over nothing. The daughter has passed on. The family certainly has other treasures of her they can continue to remember her with (note to dad - make backup copies!).
But Daddy really needs to buck up and move on, not hire lawyers and try to find a jackpot. If the recordings meant so much to him, there are quick and dirty ways to make a recording even if the phone company wouldn’t offer them.
I don’t understand this. I have a cell phone and Verizon is my provider. I have a voice mail from an old buddy of mine who sadly passed away back in September. I hit the ‘’play’’ button anytime I want to listen to it and hit the ‘’save’’ button and it’ll be there forever.
I feel sorry for the boob, but this is ridiculous. You buy a cassette tape recorder and record them.
Learned helplessness. Then when you do something stupid or fail to do something smart you sue.
There are Waaaay to many lawyers in this country sitting around thinking up shit to sue over.
Very sad for this to occur... It’s unfortunate he didn’t know to coordinate with the phone company to hold the voice mails until he could somehow get them duplicated.
I don’t know what he believes a lawsuit will accomplish, whatever, since the company said the v-mails weren’t retrievable.
My heart goes out to him and his family.
whatever=however
A little rough there, don't you think?? People aren't always going to do fully rational things when they're going through the loss of a child.
There's "really gone forever" and then there's "We would have to dig through backups for a couple of hours so it's cheaper for us to just apologize and shrug". Getting the lawyers involved suddenly makes digging through backups the cheaper alternative.
Or maybe not. If you really want to keep it make your own copy.
Ditto. It's the only reason I bought this:
Plug it in between your (land-line) phone and the mic-in jack on a computer, a cassette recorder, or anything else with a mic-in jack, and save your precious phone messages before they disappear.
Some states both parties have to have knowledge that the phone is tapped. Some states only the person tapping their phone needs to know.
I had a friend that tapped his phone cause he was going through a divorce and thought the wife was also having an affair...She called the phone company to find out if her phone was tapped and they checked and said NO....but it was..
If he didn’t try to keep them himself, they must not have been that important.
A bit off-topic, but most phone companies have on-line access from which you can copy voicemails. I once received a misdirected threatening call, downloaded it as a .wav file and emailed it to the police. I was able to better hear what he was going to do to me (or in reality the person for whom it was intended) on my PC than on the phone, also.
A year ago I was cleaning up old emails on the phone. My wife likes to stack them up. I was deleting anything over 90 days without listening. Found out one was from my daughter calling from college that was special for my wife. After I was yelled at I hopped on line and found that I could restore it from the delete bucket. I assume that gets emptied often so it’s not fail safe.
I saved them all to tapes and recently digitized them and saved them to CD.
More likely tens of thousands of dollars if it is even possible.
'Butler said. "Just complete negligence on their part."'
The negligence was on his part. He and is lawyer should be tossed out of court on their heads and billed for the courts time.
My wife’s voice is on the company voicemail. She pasted away a year ago the 31st of this month.
I call it once in awhile. I also have lots of videos from all of our vacations.
So that gives him license to sue people because of his stupidity/negligence?
I’ve had enough of this crap of people suing others endlessly because they’re too stupid to responsibly take care of their own affairs.
Perhaps, but how many times did he listen to it? 5 times? 10 times? How often do you listen to it before you think, “Hey I ought to make a long term copy of this.” These things are not supposed to be his version of permanent storage. They’re supposed to be listen to the message once, then erase.
I hope his lawyer gets pounded hard for a frivolous lawsuit.
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