Racket Zapper

The Racket Zapper electronic fly swatter eliminates chasing down flying insects or splattering bug parts on your wall. Instead, spot the flying insect and zap it. The bug should die instantly and drop to the floor.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars BEST BUG ZAPPER THAT'S ACTUALLY LOADS OF FUN !!!
Truthfully, I have to tell you that our family bought about 10 or more of these so far and I'm getting my wife another one now, because hers fell off the roof of the car and broke in the driveway whilst she was cleaning the inside. She loves it! Some flies are very quick to get away, but there are some that bite and they're the ones that actually attack the zapper and get ZAPPED! YAY!!! She was very upset hers broke, so I am getting her another one. What a fun way to rid yourself of a pest! I say, GET ONE, or more. Mosquitos were zapped too! But, be careful, as it gives quite a stinging shock, if you grab the mesh without thinking. lol I did! Wow! No wonder the little bastards blow up and get fried!

4 Stars Very good product
It's very effective against normal bugs flying around the house. Don't touch the racket when it's on though!

4 Stars Pest B Gone!
This definately turned out to be more useful than I had imagined, mostly thought it'd be a neat 'gimmick' item. The tennis racket design makes it very comfortable to hold and swing which is nice. There is one thing I had to do to make mine more effective though, it seems to be made for mosquitos and other very small insects and I was targeting wasps, well this racket has a wire 'mesh' on each side to keep you from shocking people (which is a nice safety feature certainly), but to kill larger insects like wasps I had to snip off the mesh on one side and good news, it takes down wasps and other large insects too!

3 Stars not a labor saving device but can be fun
Great idea in principle, this zapper isn't enough to always kill a bug. Don't expect the effective and satisfying spark and sizzle of plug in units. Small, softer bugs like gnats and mosquitos are pretty reliably and instantly zapped - sometimes they completely evaporate. Flies tend to bounce off, and it just seems to annoy bees a lot. I quickly learned to ignore the bees.... To actually kill a fly you pretty much have to wait for it to land, sneak up and slowly lower the zapper down onto the fly. And they don't always 'die well'.

An old fashioned swatter is much faster and easier, but this is obviously the thing for the hopelessly geeky amongst us. Count on geek envy.

This one runs on 2 AA batteries. I have seen ones that use 2 D batteries, but doubt they are more powerful, just the batteries last longer.

Yours may vary: the one that I received differs from the image amazon shows you. Mine has additional plastic support under the grid, (in the way many other models do), unlike the picture. This is probably a good thing, it is obviously not very tough and the extra structure probably helps. Just the same, this is not meant to 'swat' or hit anything, just come into contact with the target bug.

1 Star I bought two and they both broke in the first week
I was hopeful based on other reviews that it would work. I had an issue with basic house flies that were getting in the house from outside. The racket uses 3 layers of screens, but this caused too much "wind" when trying to swat a fly out of the air. If you happen to hit one, the fly needs to touch two layers of screens at the same time to get zapped.

Since the racket is well... a racket-- you can't swat-to-kill when they are sitting on the counter. You just trap the fly and hope it walks on the racket and touchs the two layers... and then ZAP!

I bought two, since I knew my son would want to try when he saw me swatting... but they both broke. One just quit zapping, and with the other the plastic and layers started coming apart.

I missed the 30 day return window, otherwise I would have tried to get a refund.

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