It appears the poor-quality knocks I've always heard against Black & Decker's crappy cordless products is absolutely true. Apparently their goal is to overcome an awful reputation with false-hype marketing campaigns that dupe consumers into wasting time, money, & effort by 'buying in' to the junk they dump on the public. They fooled me, (which is obviously what they count on), and scammed me on a pole hedger made in China, (no doubt with lead paint). I guess I had to learn the hard way about the worthless trash they churn out to gouge the market.

I followed the instructions to the letter but the product only worked about 20min's before it needed recharging & steadily dropped off to nothing with each charge. It died completely after about the 4th use. My point of purchase, ($110.000 at Lowe's), just pawned me off to contact B&D. I tried, but to no avail. Nor does B & D, (Bad & Deplorable), have any feedback access on their web-site. That makes sense when it's all about profiteering from cheaply made, overpriced paperweights.

My neighbor had a cordless drill that used the same 18V powered battery, as does all their cordless product line, and got the same negative results. He finally threw it out. Maybe their rip-off is to consider the battery a short use consumable, (like expensive ink cartridges in a printer) but at $35.00 each, it's certainly not cost effective to keep purchasing a 4-use, disposable part as in my experience. Not to mention getting rid of a stack up of bad $35 Haz-mat batteries.

For my money, they can take the 'lemon-of-a-pole-hedger' I bought and shove it up... where their heads clearly already are.

I bought a cordless weed trimmer/edger. This was the Black and Decker price was $61.96. This was far most piece of crap I've ever owned. It ran out of battery power in 20 minutes. Yeah it did 'trim' weeds, but i had to keep going over and over them. I have a weed eater brand that is gas power and about the same size as the B&D. That by far blew this one out of the water. It demolished weeds to the ground. I'm talkin to the dirt and beyond. This B&D one barely cut the leaves off the main stem. Product sucks. Don't waste your money.

My husband purchased a Black & Decker Spacemaker Digital Thermal Coffeemaker, (sounds fancy huh), for me for Christmas 2005. I installed it and made (1) pot of coffee and the carafe leaked from every direction. So we took the whole thing back and exchanged it. Guess what that one leaked to just not as bad, so we took it back. So now we are on the third coffeemaker and you guessed it, it leaks too. And not only that but the coffee is supposed to stay hot for up to 4 hours, if it makes it an hour I am lucky. So if the new carafe from the Black and Decker factory doesn't solve the problem, and I am skeptical, I am going to toss the thing out the door and to the curb and buy a coffee maker from another manufacturer. So you do the math, is it worth the aggravation, I think not.

I bought a Black and Decker Gizmo can opener and I went to their website to look for help with my product. I wanted to find out if they sold replacement parts as my can opener no longer opens cans. I am a very dissatified customer as I paid top dollar for this product and would like to get it to work. I had it a very short time before it stopped working.I would be happy to rate-it anytime,but I am disabled and cannot rate products for money. Winifred Scheffel

Had two of their under shelf units for about fifteen years up until buying a Cuisinart. Pretty dependable.

I love the Black and Decker coffee maker with the timed brew option.