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I didn't buy this product from Amazon. I bought it at a local hardware store. I was there to pick up some simple snap-traps and walked by an end cap display with the Goodnature A24 sitting there with several accessories, supplies and a video display showing how it works. I was immediately enthralled. I went and picked up the cheap plastic snap-traps and then on gadget-loving impulse I picked up the A24 kit (sans strike counter) and made my way to the register. As soon as I got home I unboxed it, pulse racing. This is some cool technology! I set up the trap and added the bait container with the delicious-smelling brown goo oozing out. (I came pretty close to tasting it, I must admit.) I set out the bait samples in areas where I noticed rodent activity. I set up the trap close to the burrows that I found. Then I watched a whole slew of videos on the A24 and similar larger models. I love the concept of it. I won't use poison, and the idea of something that kills the rodents instantaneously without making a mess is brilliant! Then I waited. I set up a pair of wireless security cameras. No mice the first night. The next day I checked and made sure that everything was setup properly. I checked the bait samples. No nibbles. I decided to replace the bait. Maybe Kiwi mice have different tastes than Arizonan kangaroo rats. I put out some samples of peanut butter near the trap (just to see if they would snack on it) and replaced the bait bag with a big dollop of peanut butter and nuts wrapped in a piece of window screen material. I also took the cap from a soda bottle and filled it with peanut butter and placed it on the inside bottom of the trap. The next morning I had several recordings of mice happily running around and through the trap, eating the peanut butter that I left around, and even making off with the bottle cap. They are cute little creatures with big eyes and long tails. I hate killing them, but I can't have them in the house. I eventually put a bunch of the snap-traps near my A24 and in other locations around the outside of the house. I baited those with peanut butter. It's been about a month now. Here's the tally of dead mice: Snap-traps: 10 mice Goodnature A24: ZERO (0) mice I keep refreshing the bait and leaving bits of peanut butter in the bottom of the trap. Occasionally I will capture a video of a mouse stretching up and sniffing the peanut butter that is oozing down from the inside of the trap. None of them has gone far enough up inside to trip the trigger. They do seem to have a great time running around and through the trap, and last night one of the mice ran through the A24 and found a snap-trap that I had placed behind it. Snap! That mouse is dead. People keep telling me to return the A24, but I am determined to make it work. I don't understand why the mice won't go up inside. I know that they have sensitive sniffers. People might be inclined to tell me that it's not working because I leave other sources of food (the bits of peanut butter that are accessible outside or on the bottom of the trap) but when I didn't do that they didn't even seem to really notice the trap. Now at least they spend time on it, in it and near it. So that's where I am now. The Goodnature A24 is the coolest useless mousetrap that I own. Maybe it should have a warning on the box that kangaroo rats (essentially the same size as mice, but with some desert-y adaptations) are too smart for it. It's a one-star review from me. If I can figure out how to make it attract mice (kangaroo rats) and it starts killing them, then I will update my review accordingly. I do have lots of cute videos of the mice running around. So it hasn't been a complete waste.