Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I purchased these gripper pads back in April of 2011. We just finished building a new house and our living room has hard wood floors. We have a sofa and a love seat and both were moving all over the place and I knew would eventually scratch the wood floor. I often stretch out on the floor and then sit with my back against the sofa to watch TV. Just the weight of my upper torso leaning against the sofa pushed it backwards before we tried these gripper pads - that is how slippery the feet of the sofa were on the wood floors. Now it is July and I wanted to give some feedback for others considering these gripper pads. We purchased the 4" by 5" pads and cut them down with simple scissors to almost exactly the shape and size of the feed of our sofa and love seat. On our particular sofa and love seat each corner has a triangular shaped wooden foot and there is also a smaller round foot exactly in the middle. I have to admit, when I received the product, I was thinking there was maybe a 25% chance that it would work as advertised. I am very happy to say the product works incredibly well. After cutting them to the correct size and shape, we just pulled back the backing paper and stuck them to the feet of both the sofa and love seat (including the small round foot in the middle). As soon as we set them back on their feet, they stuck like they had been glued to the floor. They do not budge - not even a little. My kids run and jump on the sofa and love seat. I sit on the floor and lean against them. Guests come over and plop down on them. They have not moved a millimeter from where they were placed back in April. They stick so well, I was worried they may "glue" themselves to my hardwood and either not want to release or worse, leave black marks or damage the wood. This does not happen either. Last week I had to tip the sofa back so I could put a surge strip into the outlet we had installed in the floor under the sofa when we built the house (for lamps and laptop power cords!). I just grabbed the front of the sofa and lifted up. For a second the pads stuck then, with a bit of a sound kind of like packaging tape being pulled off its roll, they released and I tipped the sofa back and inspected. There were 0 marks on the floor and nothing left behind to indicate where the legs had made contact with the floor. I had my wife plug in the surge strip while I held the sofa back and then when she was done, carefully lowered it again to the floor. It is back exactly where it was and the sofa continues to stay exactly where it should be - I did not have to re-apply. Very long and winded story short, the stuff works as advertised. I am extremely pleased and had to report it to all of you because it seems as though fewer and fewer thing work the way they are advertised anymore and this product worked so well! Highly recommended!