Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is billed as an "opener for seniors." Well, my wife and I are as old as the younger hills and we both had the same problem with the instructions. The instruction booklet doesn't say anything about it, but this thing ships with a clear piece of plastic wrapped around the cutter blade, in front. The clear plastic has a short message in black print telling you to remove it before using the cutter. The black print is in front of two black areas on the metal housing. It's very easy not to notice the plastic piece (we didn't) before trying to use the cutter. After three failed attempts at cutting we were about ready to ship the thing back, when my wife lifted it up for a closer look. Only then did we see the piece of plastic, and even then we had to pull it off (not very easy) before we could read the message. The thing cuts beautifully, but there's no excuse for leaving an essential step out of the instructions. It would have 5 stars without that; I thought about giving it 3, but settled on 4. IMO, this thing is not really aimed at old people.