VictorM2 Smart-Kill Humane Wi-Fi Enabled Electronic Rat Trap Killer - 2 Traps

I bought a two pack. One lost connection while the batteries were supposedly still at 70% the day before. Changed the batteries and it won’t turn on, the red light in the on switch just intermittently flashes, won’t stay on and won’t connect. The other one is supposedly connected and on, and there are rat droppings all around and you can see on the bait where they came in and ate what peanut butter they could get and and no dead rat in the trap and no message from the app that it had been triggered. Go figure, seemed too good to be true and it was. Going back to good old spring loaded rat traps because they actually work. Now I know why they only give a 30 day warranty on these things. I will never buy these again, complete waste of money.

I have an expansive system of these around my house. Love them, no mess to clean up (blood/guts) and it sends you an alert when you get a kill. Only issue is like 1 out of 4 of these stop working within a year. I have purchased 9 over the last couple years, and only 7 are still fully functional. Its worth it to me though, I would never manage the rodent problem at my house if I had to deal with mangled bodies lol

I purchased one of these electronic traps a while back and it worked flawlessly so I bought two more in September. These I guess had been "improved" and the four "C" cell batteries lasted about 8 days and had to be replaced. "C" cell batteries are very expensive and I have to replace eight batteries for the two traps at a time. My older unit kept the batteries for months before needing to be replaced. I'm past the return time so I will have to eat the $90+ for the traps but I can warn future purchasers of what to expect when you nave to replace these batteries every week. Plus I haven't caught one rat in the new traps. I would never have bought them had I known what the battery usage is. it's like purchasing a GEO metro expecting 50 mpg and finding that you are only getting 6 MPG.

The whole idea of an internet connected mouse trap seems kind of ridiculous. Is this an Onion parody turned into a real product? But I got a couple of these anyhow to put down in the garage to prevent a repeat of last winter’s “rodent invasion apocalypse” which cost a LOT of money to fix. They work and it turns out to be amazingly handy to get the alert to remind me to go on down and empty out the trap. I haven’t used them long enough to have a good idea of battery life but they are still over 75% after 3 weeks and 4 rodents zapped.Update - battery life has been fine - multiple months. One did lose connection and need to be completely reset. False trigger notices mean they need cleaning.So, I bought 2 more. The new ones, WR190808GVXXXXX and WR190811GVXXXXX (both on FW 1.3.3) were a royal pain to set up. Setup on an iPhone X running iOS 13.3.1 failed repeatedly. Connection to the trap’s own WiFi network failed multiple times. After successfully connecting to the trap’s WiFi network, set up failed with “there has been a network error” when attempting to retrieve the available WiFi networks so that I could select my home network. This failed 100% of the time on both units after multiple attempts. I was within 10 feet of the WiFi access point and I tried all the usual things - restarting the app, power cycling the traps and my phone.The older traps had been no problem to set up on the same phone a year ago (with an older version of iOS).I *was* able to complete setup of the 2 new traps after only a few retries using an iPhone SE running iOS 13.3. This suggests that there might be an incompatibility with the Victor app and the most recent iOS release. I reported it to Victor, so with luck a fix is coming.

Product has cool points, it keeps score of its kills and sends you a notification. So you always know to go empty the trap.However, for the money they're pretty flimisily made, and one of my two stopped working after 6 months. No longer reachable via wifi and it won't go through the re-setup process.And the extra bonus, no frikkin warranty on them apparently. So tough luck if it dies after 30 days.

Great idea but falls short in numerous areas such as the unit is built quite cheaply. The battery doors don't work well. One is so loose that so it just sits on the top. Should have had a port for plug in adapter. Should also use indicator lights on unit instead of being totally dependent on the app. Additionally, the app is awkward not working properly needing many tweaks. All that being said, it does work !!! Update: I have now purchased 6 of these units within the last month. They work great at first, then fail for various reasons such as no power, connection losses, and shock plates not working. I have returned 2 and now 2 more today. Called Victor with little further assistance. Not batteries and not a cleaning issue. Now 1 of my last 2 is malfunctioning. If not a design issue, clearly there is a defective batch or parts issue. What a hassle. i wanted to keep and have at least 4 for long term use. Can't recommend at all until Victor notifies and corrects the issue with a detailed explanation and solution. Originally rated three stars now one, zero if it were possible. 2nd UPDATE: After two calls to Victor, the first being unhelpful and useless. The second a complete opposite, offered to send replacements of the non wireless model. He explained that the wireless model has been discontinued due to known electronic/ defect issues. What is out there is left over stock. Do not waste time, effort, an money by buying this model. I am back to 3 stars because of the replacement but should have have never occurred in the first place if they recalled these which should have been done IMO.