Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have never left a review before in my life, but I was so incredibly disgusted with the rip-off scam of the PackTite Bed Bug Killing oven that I felt compelled to warn others. This company is preying on the fact that bed bugs are horrific and the mere thought (less having them) is enough to send many to a shrink. You can buy this, or you can buy a duffel bag, this turkey thermometer that you can leave in the bag (i.e. oven) with your stuff CDN Digital Programmable Probe Thermometer, and this digital timer Taylor Digital Minute/Second Timer. Now all you need is a cheap space heater that you can fit in the bag Impress 1500-Watt Compact Space Heater Fan with Adjustable Thermostat, and voila, you have created your own PackTite bag for less than 50.00. Seriously, this is the exact product you will receive in the mail. Exact. This comes as a duffel bag with a space heater inside. It is not an oven. Then, twist-tied inside is a digital probe thermometer just like this, still in the clamshell package. Next to it, is twist-tied on a timer, also still in its clamshell package. These are not built in products, or part of the oven. Some company who knows how freaked out people are about bedbugs whipped together this thing with some parts that they twist-tie together in a warehouse and then ask YOU to assemble the whole thing and WATCH the temperature and time for HOURS! You can't put your stuff in this after coming home from a vacation and go to sleep... let me explain. So you buy this. Peace of mind? Well, if you don't mind watching the bag get to 120 degrees on the little cheap thermometer they send with it that you insert in your bug filled clothes. And then, after you have sat there and waited for it to reach 120, you need to make sure that your stuff registers at 120 degrees for 60 minutes to kill all life stages of bedbugs. This is more or less a quote from the manual inside. Then, you can't leave it, because "if thermometer reaches 150 end immediately" -- i.e. there is no control of the temperature, so if you walk away for too long, you might burn your stuff at too high a heat because you didn't see it register to 150 (or more!) because you werern't SITTING WATCHING THE CHEAP THERMOMETER that ISN'T EVEN BUILT IN as part of the bag/heater. So let me summarize. This can take no fewer than 60 minutes, but can take overnight -- you are required to sit and check your thermometer probe off and on to make sure your stuff is "cooking" -- when it reaches 120, you can start the 60 min countdown. But no, you can't walk away and relax yet -- if the bag gets to 150, you have to end it immediately, so you have to keep checking back all the time to make sure that you don't overcook something, or worse, burn down your house! And then, inside, there is a large totally unusable area that has these admonishing warnings on it saying something like this "this area must remain free and clear for venting -- any malfunction because this was covered will not be covered by PackTite." Too bad that it takes up about 20% of the space the description is claiming is "usable". It is also too small to cook an entire house or apartment's contents -- it would only be useful for a vacation -- and it would take several "loads". A terrible product that WILL burn someone's house down, if not make you nuts with sleep deprivation watching your thermometer and timer tick tick tick. Be warned. I only wish I could give this a zero!