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A Swift, Dependable and Sanitary Insect Killing Machine
I don't understand what people were expecting when they say they were let down by the difference between image/description and actual item. Was I let down that my blue swatter wasn't that deep navy implied in the photo? Not in the least. My goal here is insect annihilation, not making it into next issue of Country Living magazine.
Couple of things that make these keepers:
1. The holes in the swatter and the flexible material allow you to really make a quick swat before the fly can make a break for it.
2. The fly gets squished in the spikes and its held in there quite well. I can turn the swatter completely upside down and the fella isn't going anywhere.
3. The feeling I get when I see the insect within the swatter in an impaled state is incredibly satisfying. Doubly satisfying because it doesn't leave a splattered bug on your wall which you then have to go and wash off. You can simply head on over to your trash can and give it a little wiggle and the insect falls right out. Sometimes you have to kind of "encourage" them out, but that's kind of what you're signing up for here. If you are that adverse to a bit of "hands on" bug disposal, then you should be looking into other options anyhow.
4. It's made in the USA. Figures.... only a real American hero could have engineered such an impersonally brutal device. Did you see the seller proudly proclaiming 904 SPIKES PER SWATTER?! 904 is a very intentional number.... not 900, not 905... 904.
Scandanavians would've made something that politely asked the bug in an easily understood series of pictograms to kindly hang out elsewhere, but also that if it didn't feel like it, well, it's also totally optional so feel free to continue flying around the house if that's what makes you happy.
5. If you can't discern that this product listing includes only two swatters, that the 5 swatters in the photo are there to show you that colors may vary, and that even in a world in which there is no longer hunger and war and all living things cohabitate in brotherly love the colors indicated might not be an exact Pantone match to what you receive and that's ok..... well, shame on you. You are part of the problem.
June 2018 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase