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Other Telephone Information => Telephone LINKS Information => Topic started by: WEBellSystemChristian on September 05, 2013, 07:15:09 PM

Title: FiveStarPhones.Com - Has anybody else seen this website?
Post by: WEBellSystemChristian on September 05, 2013, 07:15:09 PM
My dad was looking for a handset cord boot online, and found this strange site:

http://www.fivestarphones.com/index.php?cPath=59&osCsid=b74febc98ecd10bfcaf28e14b20de475

I found parts for 1500, 2500, 3500, 1554, 2554, and other later model WE phones.
Title: Re: Has anybody else seen this website?
Post by: WEBellSystemChristian on September 05, 2013, 07:27:19 PM
I hope it doesn't sound like an advertisement, because it isn't.
Title: Re: Has anybody else seen this website?
Post by: DavePEI on September 05, 2013, 08:18:58 PM
Quote from: WEBellSystemChristian on September 05, 2013, 07:27:19 PMI hope it doesn't sound like an advertisement, because it isn't.
Its part of the Don Woodbury dynasty!  :)

Note the address:

10 Binnington Court
Kingston

Don now owns:

http://www.oldphoneworks.com
http://www.chicagooldtelephone.com (dead link)
http://www.fivestarphones.com
http://www.houseoftelephones.com/[/s] (dead link)

Dave
Title: Re: Has anybody else seen this website?
Post by: G-Man on September 06, 2013, 12:11:46 AM

There are at least 11 threads mentioning Five Star Phones on this forum and many more on other listserves so it is a well known source of parts, etc.

However, even though I have used them myself, I have not come across any parts that are specific for 1500, 3500 or 1554 instruments. If they do carry those parts it would be a boon for collectors of these sets.

Quote from: WEBellSystemChristian on September 05, 2013, 07:15:09 PM
My dad was looking for a handset cord boot online, and found this strange site:

http://www.fivestarphones.com/index.php?cPath=59&osCsid=b74febc98ecd10bfcaf28e14b20de475

I found parts for 1500, 2500, 3500, 1554, 2554, and other later model WE phones.
Title: Re: FiveStarPhones.Com - Has anybody else seen this website?
Post by: WEBellSystemChristian on September 06, 2013, 08:18:57 PM
I figured since it looked like a low-quality website, it wasn't very well known.
Title: Re: FiveStarPhones.Com - Has anybody else seen this website?
Post by: Oldphoneworks-Chris on September 18, 2013, 11:43:22 AM
Yessir, that's one of our sites. I think we're updating the look of it, I agree it definitely needs an update.  The parts we have up on Fivestarphones are new reproduction parts rather than original parts. 

As far as the 1500, 3500 or 1554 parts.. Fivestarphones is our modern day landline phone store, with businesses that need emergency telephones etc.
Title: Re: FiveStarPhones.Com - Has anybody else seen this website?
Post by: G-Man on September 18, 2013, 03:21:46 PM
Quote from: Oldphoneworks-Chris on September 18, 2013, 11:43:22 AM
Yessir, that's one of our sites. I think we're updating the look of it, I agree it definitely needs an update.  The parts we have up on Fivestarphones are new reproduction parts rather than original parts. 

As far as the 1500, 3500 or 1554 parts.. Fivestarphones is our modern day landline phone store, with businesses that need emergency telephones etc.

Your sentence "As far as the 1500, 3500 or 1554 parts.." is confusing.

Does this mean you are providing parts for 10-button and Autovon sets?

Also are Fivestarphones parts shipped from Canada?