ZAP IT! Electric Fly Zapper - Rechargeable Fly Swatter Electric Zapper Racket - 4,000 Volt Bug Zapper for Mosquitoes, Flies, and Insects - Handheld Mosquito Zapper with USB Charging - Mini

This was excellent while it lasted. Now it's failed I have come back to order another but still weighing up the odds whether to go for same model or the competition!You do have to zap the stunned fly again to fully kill it depending on the type of fly killed. Worked very well on wasps.Being rechargeable was a big bonus for me. No fiddling round with batteries just plug in for an hour or so to my phone charging socket and good to go.Now, sadly the button has to be pressed very hard to power up and sometimes not even coming on. You swat a fly and it happily flies away as the power failed.Forget the lifetime guarantee, it's a con. Tried to contact the manufacturer to claim a replacement but no response. They're based in the US and I very much doubt their so called lifetime guarantee is even worth the paper is printed on, let alone for anyone in the UK. So if you're buying the zapper on that basis, forget it.Size is a plus, rechargeable is a plus, light seems worthless but might appeal to some evening swatters!Btw it lasted just over a year before it failed.****Edit****Didn't get any reply from the manufacturer details on the guarantee so contacted seller of this product. They responded very rapidly and were very helpful. I have just received an identical replacement of this item. Here's hoping it zaps thousands more flies like it's predecessor.

Great that it's rechargeable so no need for batteries. Makes on hell of a noise when you connect with a fly. It's great for those annoying ones that circle under a light in the middle of the room.It's actually really satisfying when you connect with a fly both on the forehand and on the backhand.Kiss flies dead so make sure you pick them up off the floor after. Oh and I wouldn't recommend poking your finger through the guard. I haven't done it but I would think it would give you one hell of a shock.

I recently became the proud owner of a ‘ZAP IT! Bug Zapper’.After a reasonably fly free summer, I was suddenly plagued by the little blighters and they drove me all kinds of crazy, so off I went to Amazon, as going to Amazon CURES ALL THE PROBLEMS!So, I looked at all the fly killing stuff. Now, I’ve NO idea what the naturalists and their ilk are going on about when they complain that insecticides are killing off all the nature, because trying to get fly spray that kills flies is harder than teaching a squirrel to sing. That old favourite Vapona that used to sit innocuously in the corner, quietly gathering dust and slaughtering bugs is long gone, along with MUCH of my childhood which is apparently responsible for destroying the ozone layer. So, I bought me some fly spray from the sparsely available options. It had reassuring pictures of frazzled looking flies on it and apparently could be used ‘anywhere in the home due its pleasant Eucalyptus aroma’. Oh, The Flies well, they just LOVED that ‘Eucalyptus aroma’. They all donned head scarfs and kaftans and flew around singing ‘This is the Age of Aquarius’ to each other. They made an entire evening of it, not going to bed much before two.Infuriated, I concluded the only way to kill a fly with my newly bought spray was to hit it with the can. I didn’t actually harm any flies this way, but the chunks taken out of my walls resulted in a quick CURE THE PROBLEM visit to Amazon to buy some wall filler.I had to change my strategy. Chemistry had failed, brute force had failed and I was starting to fear for my mental health. The Flies had by now, set up a Gentleflies drinking club in one corner of the room and a branch of the WFLY in the other. I’ve never knowingly heard a fly laugh, but I was starting to hear their cackling little chortles in my dreams all the time. I’d had enough. It was time to go ELECTRIC!To be honest, I’m a lazy person. I just want to ‘set and forget’ I don’t NEED to go around chasing errant, hippy clad insects with a Swingball bat, but I was desperate. I was SO desperate, I almost looked up Mindfulness tapes on Amazon to CURE THE PROBLEM, but I settled on the ‘ZAP IT! Bug Zapper’.My ZAP IT! duly arrived in a box five times its size, through its own packaging was more minimal, (think of a large crisp packet). I took a brief look at its instructions before gleefully plugging it in to charge. I waited and I watched. And I waited more and I watched more. Eventually, fed up with watching and waiting, I grabbed a beer from the fridge. THIS was my big mistake as I took my eye off the ball! I’d had no idea The Flies were watching too. They of course knew, that once engaged in beer-fuelled respite, my aim would be off, my cares would be fewer and they could live on. And they did.The next day, armed with my fully charged ZAP IT!, I attempted to continue my mission. The Flies of course, now knew what the ZAP IT! looked like (having had the chance to study it whilst I was drunk) and knew it was something to be avoided at all costs. It seemed at first, the ZAP IT! had worked, the mere sight of it having sent their black, slimy little selves packing.On how wrong I was! They (The Flies) were just biding their time. They had some inbred ability to know that to successfully operate a ZAP IT!, you need the eyes of a hawk, the speed of a cheetah and the backhand of Rafael Nadal. I thrashed about like a dying starfish, failing to do any damage to anything but my own forehead. By Tuesday, The Flies were lighting their flyphones up to ‘Hotel California’…But then came yesterday…Yesterday, I GOT ONE! It was largely being in the right place at the right time and it probably came as more a shock to me as it did the flare-dressed fly as they go off BANG when you get them. Beware of this, flies don’t go quietly (at least mine don’t).I’m sad to say my mental health isn’t much improved. Now I know the ZAP IT! works so effectively, I actively stalk flies whilst they equally evade me. Flies can go backwards, who knew? Flies have meetings in the corners that I never clean discussing their latest strategies against me - again who knew? I’m now constantly dazed, living in a eucalyptus-perfumed Armageddon, occasionally wondering who will win, when I can be bothered to, that is.The ZAP IT! DOES work for any that still have the will to live. Don’t know if I will for me, please if there’s anybody out there, send food.

I sat at home getting increasingly frustrated with the amount of insects invading my house and having just decorated, I didn’t want to risk fly guts and moth dust (I don’t think they are made of dust but I’m sure you get the point) on the freshly painted walls.Whilst trawling Amazon to find a solution I came across this bad boy and decided to give it a go. I read the various reviews so wasn’t expecting too much and when it arrived it did look a bit cheap. I duly charged it up and waited for my first victim. It wasn’t long before a cocky bluebottle Sauntered into the living room and flew around my head. One quick swipe and I was rewarded with the crack of electricity and a flash as the offending creature made contact with the live mesh. It was caught but not dead so another burst and it fried leaving a fairly nasty smell and one very dead fly. Since then I have gone after every insect which is breve enough to enter my home. It works on flies, mosquitoes, smaller moths and last night I got a crane fly. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to take back control of their home from invaders (as long as they are insects). You still have to swat the little sods so flies can be tricky and I do find myself wildly swinging at them but I have yet to have one escape. It also does a great job of wiping out flying ants when they burst from the ground.As I said in the title, it’s the best £18 I have spent in ages!!