Customer Reviews

Pest Offense POBD-I-01 Original Electronic Pest Repeller

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I'm really happy I bought this product. I have a new home that's in a subdivision that isn't complete and for the last two fall and winter seasons we have been battling mice. It got really bad over the holidays when we were out-of-town for a week. The mice ran wild all over my house. It was extremely upsetting to come home to mouse droppings EVERYWHERE. I was very nervous about putting traps and poisons in my home, because I have a young son and a small dog and both are into everything these days. I got one and stopped seeing dropping and the mice within a few days. I have since gotten two more one for my garage and one for the other end of the house. I love that I don't have to worry about chemicals around son or cleaning up the dead animals. I've told several of my friends and family about this.

I was quite skeptical when buying this but I was desperate to get rid of the mice in my attic. I could hear them every day but I have no "easy" access to set a trap in the attic. They were scratching and running back and forth up in the ceiling.. I plugged in the Pest Repeller and thought for sure that it would take weeks if it worked at all.. TWO DAYS and they were GONE!!!!!!!!! I still have it plugged in!

I can't say if this works yet. The instructions state there will be an increase of bugs as they flee the sonic vibrations that are irritating them. The units (3) have been in operation for about three weeks which is probably not enough time to fairly evaluate how well it/they work(s). I'll revisit this as I get more data; and, hopefully, less bugs in the house.

Further information: while there are those who don't recognize a placeholder, or have the manners to wait for an accurate review, this, hopefully, will help a little more: all units have been in operation for about a month and I have noticed a drop in the bugs, specifically ants, around the kitchen and bathroom (where the highest concentration were). I also noticed that the two I found were far larger than any I'd seen previously and I believe them to queens which is very unusual. I looked it up on the Internet, and if the queen is out of the nest something is affecting the entire colony. So, given the lack of ants pestering us and the lack of general types of bugs usually found in this old house, I'd say the product works as advertised. Of note, you will notice a slight increase of activity before the bugs seem to go away so don't panic. Just kill them as you find them and, as a little more time passes, you'll notice you are dealing with less and less bugs. Hope this helps.

I live in Hawaii, and one of the down sides is the many insects of all types. Using one of these in my condo when I first moved in seemed to keep the place almost completely free of cockroaches for about 1.5 years or a bit more, then I started seeing them a little.
Before it wore out, I saw 2-3 roaches, and I can see that many in a few minutes in some places around here.
Moved and bought 2, one for each floor of the house. About two years have gone by, and I'm overdue to replace them, as I'm starting to see occasional roaches and centipedes.

Much healthier than using poison, and probably a lot cheaper, too.

This item does exactly what it claims. Every fall I get chipmunks in the ceiling area of my rec room. I usually have to trap them or poison them. I plugged this beauty into the wall socket and within 3 weeks the little beggers had moved out. No dead bodies to find, no traps to clean, no poison for the cats to get into. It's been three months and we are still rodent free. It's quiet, clean and totally unnoticeable. This is the best $10.00 I've spent in a long time. I highly recommend this item.

In our home and camp we have pets and do not want to have any sort of hazardous chemicals or traps in the house. If you expecting immediate results, you are setting your bar too high. At camp there was still evidence of small rodent activity for a week before we started to see results. We had another similar device that lasted for several years and so far, so good with this one. In an unattended camp, rodent activity can wreak havoc on things like insulation or wiring, to say nothing of unsanitary conditions. For example, in our area we have red squirrels and they can be very destructive.

According to the small enclosed brochure it states that "Consumers repeatedly tell us that they have had great success using the PEST OFFense product to control rats, mice, and roaches . . . ants, spiders, squirrels, crickets, silverfish, waterbugs and earwigs." I can only vouch for the absence of mice and squirrels as those are the critters I don't care to have around and tend to be abundant in our area.

For each level of your home you will need one of these devices. For example, if you have a two-story building, you will have to purchase two of them. The directions clearly state where to place each unit for maximum effectiveness. If don't place your unit in a centrally located circuit on one floor I wouldn't be at all surprised if you have spiders or ants on the other end. Now, one thing to seriously take note of . . .

Do NOT use or purchase this device if you have the following pets:

Hamsters
Gerbils
Guinea Pigs
Minks
Chinchillas
Tarantulas
Or similar small pets

I like this type of product because it is an environmentally sound method of eradicating or at least reducing pests in the home. I've had great success with a similar product and am confident this device will serve me as well. Read your enclosed instructions before installing the device and you should be pest free in a week or so!

From the moment I saw a commercial for this product, I was intrigued. I finally got around to purchasing one and it works like a charm! My apartment is normally a busy highway for centipedes and silverfish. Since I plugged in the PestOffense a few weeks ago, I have only seen about three baby centipedes - or maybe it was the same confused tot who couldn't figure out how to get out of here. It's been very rainy and damp lately too, and hardly a pest to be seen (except the aforementioned centipedeling) - that's a true testament to the efficiency of this product.

The only drawback to this model - and a very minor one, at that - is the nightlight feature. I had to plug the product into my bedroom outlet (the most centrally located one on my floor) and there's always the green glow, which can't be turned off. Aside from that, Pest Offense is an amazing small home appliance worth every penny.

Remember this is based upon the amount of wiring actually IN the structure, so it would only work where it has some wiring in the walls, if you only have one jack or two it may only be working in the vicinity of that jack. You can use an EMF detector to see where it actually works, you can get a cheap one from home depot for 30$

The problem with most houses is poor wiring, one room may be a combination of two circuits, if you turn off that section of wiring using the circuit breaker you will see what I mean. I would use a small lamp, then flip the jumper off and watch which one turns off. Then place one Pest-offense on that circuit, do the same thing with each room or section of your house.. Older houses have bad wiring, so you may only have 1 to 2 circuits per section of the house, so only one device would be needed in that case. In newer homes they have several circuits around the house, generally 1 to 2 circuits per room. This is actually to keep your house from burning down by overloading the circuit breaker.

So newer houses need more Pest-Offense devices 3-4, while older houses may only need 1-2.

A circuit breaker inside the home should give you an idea how many wiring circuits exist, each jumper goes to a section of wiring, same with a building or a house. Generally when it says "Living room on a circuit breaker" it means that jumper handles the living room, which means you have to place one on that circuit to effect that area/space.

So, generally one per room usually works. This same idea has been used with network over power (By modulating the power frequency to act as a carrier signal), essentially they are just modulating the frequency of the wiring thus effecting the pests. It's kind of complex, but the theory behind this device is solid.

In my house I had to use 4 devices due to the modern wiring and circuit design. 1 for each section of the house. I confirmed that they were working by using an EMF meter and watching the pulse before and after. The signal changed when plugging in the Pest-Offense which tells me it does exactly what its supposed to do.

I plugged the devices in and in about a week all of the spiders/ants were gone. I also noticed the "sluggish" flies that another reviewer mentioned, I even tested this by turning the device off only to watch the fly move quicker, then turned the device on to watch it fumble about again. Kind of entertaining :) maybe it depends on the type of fly, it's just interesting to watch.

Bought three of these because those huge winged roaches (Palmeto bugs) were coming in the house. After theses were plugged in, no roaches, not one. Highly recommended.

These things work!!! My mom bought me 3 of these 12 years ago when I moved off campus to an apartment complex in Baltimore. All my nieghbors complained about mice, but I NEVER saw a single one in the 3 years I lived there. I took the same 3 units and pluged them in at my townhouse, one on each level. And again, NO MICE!!! My units have been working for over 10 years. These things LAST and they WORK!!! I'm on here to buy 3 more for my little sister who just moved off campus into an apartment in Baltimore.