I am so glad I did not plug it in and walk away
579920
I just plugged in my HTC phone for all of one minute, and smelled burning electrical smell.

Guess what? My phone charging port is toast. I felt the thingcharger port too.. also really HOT as well as the base of my phone was really hot.. WAYY hotter than a phone can get using it to play a game or video watch.

It was plugged in for all of 1 minute, how could it get that hot?? I could have started a FIRE if not for a text message that came in so I checked my phone. I am so glad I did not plug it in and walk away!
(Mind you the stupid port aims HTC phones toward the wall and this is the ONLY reason I had to unplug my phone and luckily avoid a fire.. as my guess is stupid HTC designers put the charging port in backward vs every single other phone maker and didn't bother to check this).

I WOULD NOT USE THIS.  My sister's Samsung was ok, but I really doubt they tested HTC.  Or they did the latest and greatest. You should always go back 4 years. Sure I know its a lot of phones to test, but come on,.. you want to risk burning someone's house down or pay a few thousand for your business by buying up every phone that sold at least 50k of a particular model??

Either way, the charger I normally use, that works fine won't charge it.. my back up cord, won't charge it.. all worked the last time I charged my phone, YESTERDAY.
4181059
I usually do not write reviews but* I bought this for my newborn's nursery. As soon as I put the batteries in, I smelled something burning and it started smoking. I am so glad this did not happen after I had left it in the nursery!
2220608
I have this one outlet in my room that's controlled by the light switch. It's also where I plug my bedside lamp in. If I want to turn off my lamp at night, I can do so by hand. But then if I want to turn it on the next day, I have to go all the way around my bed and turn it back on. What's the problem you ask? Well, my room is small so it's annoying to shimmy there. And I have to pass the kitty litter. And sometimes I forget I did it manually and hit the switch 50 times before realizing I have to make the trip. OR the phone charger has to be turned on with the light off blah blah blah

ANYWAYS this thing is awesome. I just leave the switch on forever now, and use the remote. It's really handy and just removes the minor irritation of that stupid outlet. I'm probably going to put another one for my other lamp, just because it's so easy to use. Do yourself a favor and remove the little unnecessary stress from your life with this cool remote outlet thing.
379565
Found one of these curb-side while cruising through Beverly Hills.  Turns out it just needed a fuse!  Of course, I can't even fit it through the door to get it out of the garage, so my family and I have abandoned the rest of house.  The pipes froze last week and I believe some squatters have taken over the den.  Still, the TV is well worth the inconvenience!  If you tune to the fireplace channel, you'll swear you feel the heat...and it definitely warms my heart!  Thank you, Samsung!
313436
It is ok
There are some noise.
But at least I do not need to take the cell with me at home
2559804
This could not have come at a better time. I have a big white wall thing that I plug in behind my husband's chair which allows me to to use several outlets. But it has been driving me insane lately because it wiggles. If my husband moves in his chair, the power goes out on everything plugged into it which includes my CPU and captioned phone. I have really been going a little crazy because it always happens when I am in the middle of something important and I lose everything I was doing on my computer. I have to reset my phone and, to top it off, the main lamp is plugged into that same white wall outlet and I have to scramble around in the dark to get things up and running.

It happened again a few days ago and that was it. I had this MoKo 1250W 4-Outlet Home /Office Power Strip Surge Protector in the box for a day and was meaning to swap it out but I got lazy. When the power went out again, I was done. I whipped this power strip out and quickly swapped it and tossed that "As Seen on TV" wall block out.

This is a small, compact unit but feels weighty and sturdy. It has four outlets which can accommodate two and three prong plugs. I do not have issues with my larger plugs covering other outlets but I can see how that could happen with certain devices. I have use of all four outlets. It has five USB ports which come in very handy. There is an on/off switch and a blue light lets you know it is ready to charge your USB devices.

I am just so relieved that I won't have to endure random outages! My poor computer was taking a beating and so was my husband (Not literally of course.) although he didn't do anything to cause the outages but shift in his chair, sometimes not even that! This plugs very securely into the wall outlet and the outlets on the unit are nice and snug. No wiggling!

I have charged my phone, tablet, and iPod and have had no issues whatsoever with that. I find they charge as quickly as they do anywhere else. I am very pleased with this power strip. It's compact and does what it is supposed to do. it doesn't get hot or warm which is always a concern of mine with power strips. I read that some reviewers have said it doesn't have surge protection. I don't know how to tell if it does or does not. It says it does and it cannot be any worse than the wall block I have been enduring for months. I believe this will protect my devices from surges as it states.

I have no complaints. I am just so happy that it works as it should and that all connections are snug and secure. My husband is happy that he can actually move around in his chair without fear of inadvertently causing me to lose my mind so all I can say is thank you to MoKo for making a power strip that works well and seems to be extremely secure.

Disclosure: I received a discount on the price of this power strip in exchange for my evaluation and honest review. I was SO happy to have the opportunity to try it and I am very pleased with it. I would buy this brand again.
1468242
Although I had bought this product some time ago I just recently took it out of the box and plug it in to my new tv. My problem was it started having a smell like something electrical was burning and the little box that goes to the antenna got very hot. I unplug being thankful I did not ruin my new tv. I know it  is been too long to send back which is my fault but I would be afraid to use now after this happened
825721
This is not the item for you if you need to use it for more than a few hours without being plugged in.
834633
Just plug it in and, there is peaceful silence. It automatically cut my unwanted calls by 75% I have only had to add 7 of my own. Easy Peasy, Just answer the phone  when the yammer starts, say "I am sorry but I just don't care" and HIT the big red button. Bye, Bye solar salesmen, credit offers, Electric company switch offers, time share buyers, and some that I can't figure out what they are selling. Wow! Just added another block #8 while typing this. Everyone should get one.
4555033
I have a hard time unplugging it. It gets stuck and I don't want to pull on the wire and cause a short.
2452963
Worked fantastically, and I really like that you don't need Bluetooth/batteries.
2445107
Owner's manual says to "unplug when not in use" - seriously? The on/off switch is not good enough?
2280089
I bought this because I'm going to start driving for one of those rideshare companies and I got it today. I only tested it by turning it on and pushing the button. I can only say that the sound alone scared me half to death. I'm kind of scared about shocking myself, but I've known a few times that I have felt like I would like to have it with me for safety. Other reviewers have already said that it is no joke when they tested it on each other. I don't want to be a guinea pig either. I hope to never need it.
2253382
I had a non-working switch in my newly purchased condo.  It was terribly annoying to walk into the room, hit the switch and have nothing happen.  And before you think of telling me to check the outlets - I did.  No outlets worked with the switch either.  It simply was there for show only - no wires were connected.  After asking some home repair people, I learned that adding wiring after the fact was a large project.  This switch solved the problem very inexpensively and with no workmen - only a screwdriver, a wire cutter and about 10 minutes of my time.  I did get a friend with a voltage-tester to make sure there was nothing live in the wires.  Then I removed the old switch by unscrewing the switch plate and cutting the dead wires.  This little switch fit right where the bad one was.

A note to GE: 5 minutes of the 10 was spent opening the very hard plastic these products were packaged in.  Whoever invented that stronger-than-steel, environmentally unfriendly plastic should be taken out to the woodshed and SHOT!

The second part of this was even easier.  I plugged the receptor into an open outlet, plugged a lamp into that and made sure the numbers agreed on the two devices (so they could talk).  And Voila!  It worked the very first time!  I also found the directions easy to follow, which is rare these days.

This was so much fun, I started getting ideas.  I now have a switch upstairs that turns on a light in the kitchen, so I can turn it on at night if I decide to go down for a snack and don't want to turn on the hall light.  I have a list of other things I want to switch from unusual places.  It works even if there is a chair in the way - totally cool!!!

I'm always showing it off, because I feel so smart for solving the problem myself for practically no money.  I can't think of anything (other than the package) I didn't absolutely love! It was the perfect solution!
4679605
I haven't needed to use this due to power outages, but I had sound issues with my sound system I suspected might be due to power spikes where I live and this fixed that.  I like knowing my PC is protected from sudden shutoff, and all the reviews I read make this worth the cost for the peace of mind it provides.
2477694
My laptop battery has been bad for a long time. I finally decided to get a new one and I had it in two days and it's so nice to not have it plugged in all the time.
3495192
I could live with the few false alarms we had with our unit - but in January, when a knob on our natural gas stove had been left partially "on" - I came home to a house sickeningly filled with gas - and the Nighthawk blithely read "0 PPM".  No alarm - not a peep.  It was by the Grace of God that my house didn't explode when I flipped on the light switch before I smelled the gas.  An hour after opening all the doors and windows, our utility technician arrived - and her "gas sniffer" went crazy - it was still reading 4% concentration of gas.  I'm sure the initial concentration had been 3+ times that much.

If my light switch had sparked - I could have been killed.  For this unit to NOT have sounded any kind of alarm is truly scary.