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None of the batteries worked and it cost me alot of MONEY to replace them. So I guess I got ripped off. Found a simuliar product in dollar store with working batteries.
THIS CAME WITH DEAD BATTERIES AND WHEN I TRIED TO BUY LOCALLY FORM BATTERIES PLUS AND RADIO SHACK THE BATTERIES WOULD NOT FIT. DO NOT BUY RIP OFF RIP OFF. WHAT SHOULD I DO PAY MORE THAN THEY ARE WORTH TO SEND BACK.
Alarms did not sound at all. My product was defective. It's a real disappointment. We don't care." I've used these kind of alarms before purchased from other places besides Amazon and never experienced this kind of problem. Buyer BEWARE. Apparently, the batteries are bad or who knows what. What a disgust. I tried contacting the seller and I was basically told, "too bad, you can complain to Amazon if you want.
If you have my e-mail and can send me a "how was your order" mail, you have my e-mail and can notify me when an item is on back-order, preferably before I've been waiting around for it for weeks. I had already been in touch with Amazon, but now I had an e-mail from the company I was able to tell them I hadn't received the product.I was told it was on back-order and would take about three more weeks to arrive. It was an inconvenience that could have been avoided had the company just contacted me. I double-checked and I did have the recommended battery size.Finally, the alarms I received were a previous model that as-seen-on-tv claims to not sell/have in stock anymore, and not the newer models pictured on the Amazon page. Wasn't it supposed to be on back-order for three more weeks.It really looks to me as though they hadn't actually processed my order correctly and lied about it being on back-order. When the item still hadn't arrived two weeks after it was scheduled to the company sent me an e-mail asking how I'd liked the product. I can only be understanding, though, when these situations are made clear to me in a timely, professional manner. I thought perhaps they had shipped me some old models to make up for the new one being out of stock, but there is absolutely no indication of this (and the shipping label date makes me think the package was packed when it should have been).I purchased something like this in stores a few years ago, and really, really liked it.
Actually I have just checked and seen that the postage stamp on my package reads august 19th, but someone (perhaps the post master) has written 9/16 next to it. Once the batteries were out I put in the replacements, which were so loose that when I turned the alarm over they fell out with no provocation. What's more, when it arrived, none of the eight alarms I ordered worked. I had read other reviews that said some had arrived with batteries that were dead, though it seemed to have been one or two out of four, not every single one. I commented to the service representative that if orders are initially listed as in-stock and become back-ordered, they might want to e-mail a customer - I have a package pick-up service so I had been stopping in every day for two weeks to see if it had arrived. When I ordered this item it was listed as "in stock".
More curious still was that my package arrived withing five days of that. 8/19 is when it should have been shipped, but mailing it 9/16 would reflect when it actually showed up. In addition there are many problems a business can face, items going into back-order without warning, the usps losing packages, etc. When I'd read these reviews I had purchased a set of batteries just in case, but when I tried to replace the batteries, first of all, the batteries already in the alarms were jammed in so tight I had difficulty removing them (I finally resorted to removing them in a somewhat dangerous manner). I found it curious that although it had been listed as in-stock and it had been assumed I'd received it (because of the "how was it." e-mail) it was back-ordered. I highly doubt they print mailing labels before the product is ready to be shipped.
You can also notify me if you are sending me a different model (and more importantly ASK if I would like to substitute my order with an older, potentially not-working-anymore model).My experience with this company was pretty poor. Not a single one.
You can get a 50 or more pack of replacement button cell batteries here on Amazon.com at a fantastic price. Great price and very easy to install. They are very loud for there size. Very pleased with there performance. Like the option of alarm and or chime mode.
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