Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: The answering machine on the base unit broke after three months

I was delighted with this system at first, until the answering machine on the base unit starting blinking and quit working.Now my phone rings just 4 times in my home, and the answering machine does not pick up. To the caller it sounds like it just rings forever. I can't put a new answering machine in because the old one does something after 4 rings.I can't send the base unit in for repairs because none of the other phones will work while it is gone.I am currently spending time trying to find out what to do.We really like the phones other than this problem. The intercom system is great, sound is good, and speaker phones work well. The menu is a bit cumbersome but it works.