Sonic Alert SB1000ss Sonic Boom Loud Vibrating Alarm Clock with Built In Receiver
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Customer Reviews of Sonic Alert SB1000ss Sonic Boom Loud Vibrating Alarm Clock with Built In Receiver
Customer Review: Good while it lasts...
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm a very heavy sleeper and I bought this alarm for the bed shaker. As far as it goes, the bed shaker worked pretty well... for about 6 months. That's when it sh@t the bed (pun intended). After that happened I just had a very expensive alarm!
As an alarm, this isn't that good. The buttons are all mixed in with each other and it is pretty easy to hit the snooze and the off buttons at the same time. Also, they must be using automotive relays to control the vibrator and the outlet for the light. The noise from the relay opening and closing is enough to wake me up sometimes. That's good of course, but it worries me when I hear an electrical device making loud sounds that sound like electricity arcing.
BTW, I thought of buying a new bed shaker, but they want more for the shaker than they want for some of the alarms that come with shakers. Go figure!
Customer Review: Cheap innards
Summary: 1 Stars
With much hope I purchased this from a local audiologist 3 years ago, paying a bit of a premium because I needed it then. As a hard of hearing person, waking up on time is a challenge. In this household there was a change of routine with a job loss, and gradual awakening due to another's movement and noise became a thing of the past. Like many others reporting, this clock worked just past the warranty period, and then the clock innards died. Having paid nearly $80. with tax, I was not about to buy another.
Agree with the complaints about the confusing, difficult setting of controls. Not user friendly although looking at it, one would think the opposite.
I also didn't like the shaker, in that instead of waking me gradually, it startled me so badly, that most times I awoke, mad and grumpy at the world. Would take another hour to calm down from this.
When I spoke with others at my local Hearing Loss Assoc of America chapter, they seemed to have alarms which were no longer made/available, including one which is still available in Japan, but not in the US.
Do not waste your money on this brand, until they insist upon better quality from their suppliers & assemblers.
Have just been made aware of the ILUV brand, so will be trying that.
Customer Review: Receiver did not work
Summary: 1 Stars
We bought this alarm clock to work with a baby monitor signaller made by the same company. When we plugged both of them and turned the receiver function on the clock went crazy: flashing lights, shaking bed, etc. It turns out that "sometimes" there is another signal in the houses electrical system that can interfere with the receiver. The Sonic Alert website said we could send it in and get them adjusted to another at a cost of $5 each plus $7 shipping. We did that, and now when we turn the receiver on it just vibrates and buzzes even if the signaller isn't plugged in.
Otherwise, it's an ugly alarm clock. The vibrating puck doesn't wake my wife up and the light feature gets "stuck" sometimes.
Don't buy it.
Customer Review: Want to lose your job/fail out of school? Then this is the alarm clock for you!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
This alarm clock has no indicator light or hard-switch to tell you whether the alarm is set or not. I had it for three weeks, it worked maybe twice, and now it's in thousands and thousands of pieces, because I was two hours late to get my father at the airport today. Awesome. What a great use of my $70! I hope the people who designed this die terribly painful slow deaths, and subsequently burn in hell.
FYI, I'm giving this alarm clock ZERO STARS. Unfortunately, amazon is forcing me, against my will, to give it one star, which it in no way deserves.
Customer Review: Light button didn't work
Summary: 1 Stars
Everything about the alarm was great except for the yellow lamp button as it would not turn the lamp on :( Returned it and got the sweetheart alarm clock which works great!