Not even "new" my mother refused to use a touch-tone phone when they came out.
She rented with payment every month for years a rotary phone in the kitchen with a massive 25 foot spiral cord I'd have to untangle every week as it was stretched across the house.
When I got older I went and found the exact model in the "Bell store" and bought it and secretly swapped it out one night and returned/cancelled the rental so her bill would go down like $5/mo which back then was a lot. Left the old tangled cord on it so she'd never know.
She rented with payment every month for years a rotary phone in the kitchen with a massive 25 foot spiral cord I'd have to untangle every week as it was stretched across the house.
When I got older I went and found the exact model in the "Bell store" and bought it and secretly swapped it out one night and returned/cancelled the rental so her bill would go down like $5/mo which back then was a lot. Left the old tangled cord on it so she'd never know.