ORIGINAL: BetterBirddogs
My thermacell is a POS. The flies and skeeters land right on the damn thing. The only thing that stupid deal repelled was the deer cuz they can smell it. I called them and the lady was real nice. She agreed that the deer could smell the regular pads but that they had come out with earth scent pads to correct it. I gave mine away. Worse money I've ever spent. Might as well have put on bug spray.
Your the first person I have ever heard say they didn't work, so I'm assumingeither you are doing something wrong or there could be a defect inthe one you bought.To put it simply, they work. I have had deer smell them before. They were nervous and eventually left the scene, but they were not terrified and bolt out of there like they do when they smell human scent. Buy another one and try it again. I promise you they work. BTW, has anyone tried the earth scent pads yet?