We purchased these bug zappers and could not get them to work.
UPDATE: We used a different charger and got them to work. They are truly amazing. They work very good on small bugs like gnats, mosquitoes, etc.

Easy to charge and effective! You do have to swing pretty hard at the flies to zap them but overall it works great!

Once upon a time, I purchased a bug zapper racket from an Aldi (literally like 5 years ago). Well, it crapped out on me a few months back. Super bummer. Well, my neighbors had purchased the much more expensive name brand version of these a while back, when they were not so expensive. And they were awesome and rechargeable. I figured there has to be a version thats pretty similar but not as expensive ($45, no thanks), especially when my original one only cost me $4.99. So after a couple hours of researching different rackets, I decided to take a chance on these. These were cheaper and had a comparable voltage to the more expensive ones; which I wanted that high voltage to fry some bugs. I figured if they were awful, I could just return them. Pretty sure they came within just a couple of days, because, Prime. Noticed that they are far lighter than the more expensive ones (which, it would probably be helpful if I could remember the name of the more expensive name brand ones, but I for the life of me, can not. But they look pretty much exactly the same). Due to the light weight, thought maybe they wouldn't be too durable if I "whacked" a bit too hard on the counter. Mind you, I dont mean "whacked too hard," like slamming it like I'm trying to squash a mouse. But a good amount of force. Well, let me tell you. These. are. fantastic. I am frying flies left and right. Literally, frying until you can smell the burnt hair. I will say I haven't tried it on a cockroach yet; those suckers are definitely hard to take out as they are usually too large to touch the inner screen where all the voltage is. The only reason I am giving it 4 stars instead of 5 is because even after you release the button that turns the zapping power on, there is still some zappy power left. Had a 3 year old find this out, sheerly by accident. I had set the racket down after aggressively killing a bunch of flies, and as a precaution said "don't touch" (the parents were right there too). But what did he do? Touched it. Touched his little finger directly between the little protective screens onto the "hot" screen. Heard a quiet little zap. Quickly followed by "ow." Literally, just "ow." So for the most part, doesn't really heart so much as it does shocks/scares you. I'm sure if you did it enough, it may hurt, so I'm not suggesting that. Just more of a precaution, but also, don't need to worry all that much type of thing. A word of warning though; if you do become TOO overly aggressive with killing bugs, do not be alarmed if you end up with tennis elbow. Yes. I got tennis elbow.
*I paid $26.99 when I purchased; currently they show $22.99

Liked that it's rechargeable. Mosquitoes are awful right now and these are necessary

Finally some satisfaction in getting rid of vermin. Mosquito are the top killers of humans every year and it's easy and fun to get rid of them with this device. Works well on flies too, but flies seem to learn and they hide once they see it. Big test will be on the wasps