House of Telephones & Old Phone Works - Are they the same?

[Greg G.]

I'm confused.  I was shopping around for line cords and wanted to compare the prices of these two.  The website software looks the same, but there is a difference in the home page menus.  When go to HoT line cords area, it now says OFW, and the prices and items are the same.  

http://www.oldphoneworks.com/

http://www.houseoftelephones.com/

[bingster]

House of Telephones used to be a separate company, run by an older gentleman in Texas.  Due to health problems, he sold his cord business to Old Phone Works in Ontario. 

[Greg G.]

House of Telephones used to be a separate company, run by an older gentleman in Texas.  Due to health problems, he sold his cord business to Old Phone Works in Ontario. 

Ok, that explains it. 

[foots]

I was wondering the same thing.

[Stephen Furley]

House of Telephones used to be a separate company, run by an older gentleman in Texas.  Due to health problems, he sold his cord business to Old Phone Works in Ontario. 

I hope this doesn't mean that they're just selling off the remaining stock, and then there won't be any more.

[bingster]

No, they bought all the machinery needed to manufacture the cords.  Same cords, same machines, just all in a new location.  To tell the truth, I was hoping for a bit of a quality improvement.  The cords I've bought have gone fuzzy with use.  Western Electric cords never got fuzzy.

[foots]

bingster, perhaps you can e-mail them and let them know about the cords.