Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

4/20/19 update: I've reduced the stars from 2 to 1. Terro, what in heavens' name were you thinking? You sure didn't 'market test' these before production. Seriously, once again: TERRO, IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT. I must say once a week about something: "Progress is highly overrated." And now that reality of regress (worse actually) instead of progress has hit the once-upon-a-time infallibly effective, problem-free Terro liquid traps. This product was foolproof until you redesigned the plastic containers sometime this past year (the first such new design we received was in February - 4 boxes at once I bought cuz of winter ant invasion), and these new boxes have all brought disastrous results. You, Terro, did something besides change the openings that I originally complained about here (see below) or else the change of opening itself had more dire consequences than I had yet witnessed at the time of earlier already-negative review of the new openings. That was before discovering that these 'new' versions (far worse than "new Coke" once decades ago was supposed to be and had to be taken off the market post haste because it tasted so bad) are beyond annoying or seemingly ineffective, as I first complained. Instead, it turns out they leak gooey pools of ant killer all over the floor and result also in graveyards of dead ants all over, ants that don't make it back with the killer on their bodies back to their 'homebase' as is supposed to happen. And this is happening systematically now - with almost every trap in the house. And not just for us. I mentioned this to my neighbor and she said hers are leaking as well. Trap after trap, you leave them completely untouched sitting alongside baseboards and, while the ants are now finding their way inside, which wasn't true for a long while at the time of my earlier review, now instead you come back to check and find that the plastic is stuck to the floor in a literal pool of its own liquid having leaked out - which is a total mystery as to how that's happening. Does the new opening I complained about earlier make it so that ants leverage themselves up on to the 'lip' and tip the plastic up so that the product spills out? Or can the weight of a congregate of ants at the opening cause it to tip 'forward' and the liquid spills out? Whatever weird explanation it is, the liquid pools on the floor outside and under the plastic but with no apparent hole in the bottom of the plastic to explain the leakage ... and with nothing besides ants having been in contact with the plastic traps. (Imagine if we had pets or toddlers that could access the locations!?) And the upshot in terms of ants themselves is that, while some are making it into the plastic and dying inside, far far more are wondering rather "drunkenly" from the plastic off in nearby directions and dying on the floor in hordes - there are literal Gettsyburgs of ant graveyards all over our floors. And it seems that the pools of liquid are serving to just draw more and more ants into our house. Resulting in more and more 'graveyards' to vaccum up and pools of gooey liquid that 'welds' the plastic to the floor - at least it's wood flooring and does clean up - but what a mess. Beware of ever putting these on rugs! None of this EVER used to happen with Terro liquid traps that we've bought for years to great success, without fail. Now, you redesign the plastic and some aspect of the redesign is a total failure. original review: These traps were always amazing in their effectiveness. But then you went and changed the opening to a snap-off one, instead of the old version where you had to use scissors to cut off the opening. Welllll, the problem is: Your new design leaves the snapped off hole just high enough off the floor that the ants don't seem to crawl up into it. The previous design kept the entry to the bait trap an easy "walk in" for them, and boy did they. WHY did you change this? and in so doing, raise the opening to the bait off the floor far enough that we had about 3 die right in the opening having apparently barely made it up into it and now no more customers. Please stop changing things that work great to things that don't work at all.