[Hidden-tech] Home exterminators

[Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com]

Sounds like an advertisement, disguised as a personal endorsement, to me.

I suggest researching the device before plunking down your money.

Chris Hart
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On 11/7/14, 1:51 PM, "Deborah Chandler" <debchandler411 at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
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>Hi Marc,
>
>Someone on another listserv recently posted this great personal review
>of the Pest A Cator product. I have no personal info to share about
>this product (I have a good mouser catŠ) so I am just the messenger.
>If you would like the contact info for this person, I can ask her
>permission to make that connection. Another person on the same
>listserv also said it worked great.
>
>Best,
>Deb
>
>
>She says:
>I am writing to follow up on the "pest-a-cator" device, which I
>plugged into my apartment over a year ago, when I became catless and
>was overrun by mice. There were A LOT of mice! I don't even mean one a
>day or two a day. I mean a constant stream of mice in every room
>chewing everything and pooping everywhere. It was really overwhelming.
>
>Anyway, someone told me she had tried many different approaches, and
>the mice either outwitted and evaded the traps she set, or seemed
>completely immune to whatever other methods she employed. But this
>"Pest-a-cator" product worked.
>
>What it is, is a device you plug into a wall outlet. It does NOT use
>ultrasonic technology, which would have driven me out of my mind. It
>causes a pulse or vibration in the wiring, or something like that,
>which I personally do not hear, feel, or otherwise sense, at all.
>
>Result: there have been NO mice whatsoever in my apartment since
>plugging in the pest-a-cator. Not even in the winter. Not even any
>that I could hear inside the walls. I see no mouse poop anywhere, hear
>no scratching, see absolutely no evidence of them being anywhere, even
>in the walls. Even when I had a cat who hunted, the mice would live
>inside the walls! But not with the pest-a-cator.
>
>You have to buy the correct size unit for your square footage, and you
>need to buy one for every floor of your house (my apartment has an
>upstairs and a downstairs, so I have two).
>
>It does have a blinking red light that is meant to indicate to you
>whether the unit is working. I find the blinking light bothersome if I
>look at it, but you can easily cover it up if you want to. If you
>don't mind it, it does show you whether the unit has malfunctioned. I
>had one that got spiked during a storm, but it was replaced for free
>by the manufacturer, so the blinking light stopping blinking was
>useful to me. It's not so bright that it fills the room or anything,
>but if you are very sensitive to blinking, you could cover it with a
>piece of electrical tape. It's about the same brightness as the
>indicator light on my apartment's carbon monoxide detector.
>
>The person who recommended it to me says she tried other brands of
>things that plugged into the wall, and none of them worked.
>
>Anyway, I just wanted to let folks know this really worked for me. I
>think of it as filling my walls with music. It's non-toxic and
>non-violent, and since one unit apparently lasts for a long time
>(years), it's not really all that expensive, either. It does use some
>electricity, but not much.
>
>The product manual says it repels all rodents, not just mice, so you
>should not use it if you have pets in the rodent family (like
>gerbils). They say some people claim that it also repels spiders, but
>the company admits the spider effect is not proven. In my experience,
>spiders do not seem to mind it. But I don't mind spiders, either, so
>that's fine with me.
>
>They offer a money back guarantee, so if you still have mice after
>proper use, they will refund the purchase price. (They warn that you
>may get an initial increase in mouse sightings at first, as they leave
>the walls, but that new mice will not move in. In my case, the
>previously residentmice apparently exited to the exterior, not the
>interior of the house, and I saw absolutely ZERO mice starting the
>moment I plugged the units in.)
>
>My Tri-field Meter does register increased EMF in the immediate area
>around where the unit is plugged in, but it drops off to nothing
>within about 2 feet of the outlet.
>
>The manufacturer's website, for more information about how it works
>and what size unit is right for your living space, is:
>http://www.global-instruments.com/
>
>
>On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Marc Solomon <attspin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Patty and I are unwitting participants to rodent floorboard marathons
>>over past week.
>>
>> Does someone have a recommendation for a careful, sensible,
>>cost-effective mice-be-gone solution?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Marc
>> North Hadley
>>
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