ELGIN TRAVEL ALARM CLOCK
by GENEVA/ADVANCE CLOCK CO
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of ELGIN TRAVEL ALARM CLOCK
Customer Review: Poor quality control
Summary: 3 Stars
I was a bit disappointed with the company's quality control. I brought two clocks and the alarm on one did not work. Plus the spring on the snooze/light button was a bit soft compared to the first. Rather than return the defective product, I opened it up and found a broken black speaker wire and one of the two compression spring for the snooze button floating around inside. After resoldering the black wire and reassembling correctly, the product works as good as the first.
Overall, once fixed, I am happy with this product. As a travel alarm clock, it has all the features that I need. The progressive alarm is a nice touch.
Customer Review: Nice price reduction
Summary: 4 Stars
Clock worked but I had to remove and reinsert batteries to get the indiglo (which is very bright) and alarm to work - weird. Alarm could be a little louder at peak level (alarm lasts 1 minute). For the money, tough to beat. Recommended unless you're a heavy sleeper.Customer Review: Simple and Timely
Summary: 5 Stars
Purchased this for my bathroom and for a backup alarm. I've become difficult to get out of bed in the mornings. Works great, simple to use, not fancy--just fine.Customer Review: I Give Up!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Because of the generally positive reviews and the really low price I decided to take a chance and try one of these. My initial opinion matched those of the best reviews. It is a cheap, simple alarm clock and a great package for travel. The display is large and clear, the controls are intuitive and easy to use, the night light and snooze alarm are easy to access, and the alarm is nice and loud. I was really starting to love it........and then the display pixels started to drop out. The display soon became unreadable.
The clock was just too cheap to bother sending back so I ordered another one. It worked great the first night. When it rang in the morning I hit the snooze alarm and, since then, if the alarm is enabled at all it rings every several minutes. I kept trying it periodically for a couple of days. I even took the batteries out for a while and then replaced them. No change. It is locked into perpetual snooze mode.
I finally gave up and, for an additional $2.50, ordered a Casio. It works just fine.
Customer Review: Elgin travel alarm
Summary: 2 Stars
I had an Elgin that I bought at a military exchange in Germany back in '05. I really loved that alarm, but misplaced it sometime between then and now. I bought this, hoping that it would be comparable. It's larger than the old one and the light absolutely doesn't work. It was broken out of the plastic. I'm going to attempt to exchange it for another in hopes that will be better. Based on the other reviews this is just an anomaly, but I wanted to add info to help others make a decision.