[Hidden-tech] Home exterminators

[Deborah Chandler]

Hi all,

I don't know what to say. I know the woman personally who wrote the
endorsement I shared. She lives locally, in the Greater Quabbin area,
and I have been to her house. As I said, if anyone would like to speak
with her directly, I could ask her permission to share her contact
info.

Deb

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com
<chris at chrishart.net> wrote:
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> Sounds like an advertisement, disguised as a personal endorsement, to me.
>
> I suggest researching the device before plunking down your money.
>
> Chris Hart
>     • Computer Support & Technology Consulting
>         for Connecticut and Western Massachusetts
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> On 11/7/14, 1:51 PM, "Deborah Chandler" <debchandler411 at gmail.com> wrote:
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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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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