Lighting Earphones Headphone Wired Earphones Headset with Microphone and Volume Control, Compatible with iPhone 11 Pro Max/Xs Max/XR/X/7/8 Plus Plug a…

I bought this item because I wanted a timer that would go on beeping until I shut it off, and an answer to one of the first questions in the customer question and answer section said it would do this. It doesn’t, it beeps for 60 seconds and then stops by itself.

When I emailed the seller regarding this, they responded with an offer to take 10% off if I wanted to buy another of their products. This was especially underwhelming since the company offers 15% off subsequent product purchases anyway.

The other problem was that my unit defaulted to military (24 hr.) time, rather than am/pm, which is what I wanted. The product description states that there’s a switch on the back of the unit to change this setting, but trust me, there’s no switch anywhere on it that will do this. By combing through the customer questions and answers section, I finally discovered that you can change this setting by removing and replacing the battery.

Although the lack of a continuous alarm sound means that this unit doesn’t work for the use I had in mind, I’m now using the countdown timer to time kitchen work, like kneading bread. I’m also planning to use the count-up timer to see how long it takes me to do particular tasks. The timer is very easy to set. I also use it as a clock; however, because there’s no backlight, even though the numbers are pretty large it’s hard to see the time in a low-lit room.

I’m deducting a star because it shouldn’t be impossible for the seller either to correct the erroneous answer regarding alarm duration or make this issue clear in the product description, and also because of the time and frustration I expended examining every square millimeter of this timer for a nonexistent switch.