$120.00 paper towel dispenser seems like a really bad idea, and you definitely proved that.

@hawkpaul8735

11 ай бұрын

Yes. It's the kitchen equivalent of designer purses. You can get the gullible to buy anything.

@krispypepper1898

11 ай бұрын

@@hawkpaul8735 atleast this does something different for the price. But considering a normal holder is like $5 its not worth it

@changhyon92

11 ай бұрын

@@krispypepper1898 or even the commercial brand, theyre like 80

@CommodoreFan64

11 ай бұрын

I fully understand automatic paper towel dispensers in places like a public bathroom for sanitary reasons, but I agree that this is just a really expensive bad idea when a cheap dispenser works just fine.

@hiddendrifts

11 ай бұрын

honestly, the issues seem more like engineering problems than conceptual problems. it works fine if you figure out the technique, but... a $120 paper towel dispenser shouldn't require any technique

Maybe they figure if you're buying a $120 paper towel holder, you're buying the good paper towels 😂

@beanshady

11 ай бұрын

That's what I was thinking... Bounty or bust 😂

@YoungBlaze

11 ай бұрын

Dollar tree paper 📜 towels stand no chance 😢

@krispypepper1898

11 ай бұрын

Or you spent all your money on the holder that you can afford the paper towels

@spacejihadist4246

11 ай бұрын

That makes sense

@Simple_City

11 ай бұрын

The only paper towels worth using are the Viva Signature Cloth. Everything else is trash in comparison. There was no way I was buying this dispenser to begin with, but once I saw that it didn't work well with cloth paper towels I knew it was completely worthless.

It looked to me like the towel tended to bunch when you weren't supporting it from the middle. Because it retracts quickly and suddenly, there was tension on the top third of the towel (where it was being held) before you were able to let it go. That created the uneven pull. It also makes sense that horizontal layout retracted better because it wasn't being held anywhere and could just lay flat.

@CotyTernes

11 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

@soadeds

11 ай бұрын

I agree user error.

@CotyTernes

11 ай бұрын

@leggoMyLamb @soadeds Though I should say that the instructions should be good enough to prevent this sort of thing! He reads the instructions and watched their official video on it. Everything should have been more than clear, so ultimately it is the company's fault.

@seraphimvalkyrin4543

11 ай бұрын

Yep, noticed that too.

@tarstarkusz

11 ай бұрын

You can buy commercial hands free paper towel dispensers for a lot less money. They are made better and use the standard rolls of towels. The only downside is that the towels are paper based and not a real replacement for a consumer paper towel like Bounty. But they are very suitable for getting after spills or drying your hands.

This thing solves a problem that doesn´t exist.

@meegstomtom

11 ай бұрын

Isn't a lot of newer tech a solution looking for a problem? These things blow my mind that they even make them

@cidiracing7481

11 ай бұрын

Most of the time I need a paper towel is when my hands are wet or have in some form food products on them. In that case I don't want to touch the roll and get it wet or food stuff all over them. Especially while cooking it is very handy to not neeing to touch the roll. So I wouldn't say the problem doesn't exist. I wouldn't spend 120 however to solve that problem.

@urban1337

11 ай бұрын

I don’t even think it’s solves the problem 😂

@7531monkey

11 ай бұрын

Having too much money is serious problem for some. 😂

@karenneill9109

11 ай бұрын

And creates more…

Using paper towels was never that hard to begin with, this thing complicates the simple act of grabbing a paper towel 😂

I had the same problem at a job I worked at.. They purchased a $500+ napkin dispenser, and the problem was refilling it! Some employees would get frustrated spending literally minutes trying to get it to dispense properly after refilling it. Some times it would give you a red light and stop. Other times a green light, then when you take some napkins, it would switch to red and you would have to start all over trying to get it to dispense again! After a year, we replaced it with the old fashioned gravity fed napkins. And everyone was happy! Some times technology gets in the way, and reminds us that old times are better!

@MikoMomo

11 ай бұрын

make sure that you are closing the door correctly.

@Dyanosis

11 ай бұрын

Less "old times" and more "simple times"

@Blox117

11 ай бұрын

that doesnt make sense, how is it gravity powered? if it was, it would all fall out

@ShintogaDeathAngel

11 ай бұрын

@@Blox117 The slots for traditional paper towel dispensers are designed to help ensure the towels don't do that - at least in theory. If you put too many in it still jams the bottom ones, and you need to make sure you're using the right size. But gravity fed basically means the pile gets smaller as more towels/napkins are removed from the bottom.

@Blox117

11 ай бұрын

@@ShintogaDeathAngel so its not actually gravity fed it's manual

Can I just say- I appreciate how thorough you are in your reviews

@j_u_ss_y

7 ай бұрын

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I think laying it down is the best way to keep it from becoming uneven on the rewind. It seems gravity is just messing up the rewind and it's pulling it in with a tilt which causes it to jam. Takes more space laying down but to me it seems like the best position for it.

@frankez1975

11 ай бұрын

Was thinking the same thing

@charisma-hornum-fries

11 ай бұрын

For 119$ it should be programmed to know there is something called gravity. If it worked I would hang it under the cabinet and save countertop space.

@humble2246

11 ай бұрын

​@@charisma-hornum-fries ah I wish electronics were that easy. With added complexity adds cost in manufacturing and engineering. It's really not that easy.

@youshimimi

11 ай бұрын

@@humble2246 the thing already costs 120$. That's more than enough to expect it to be tested properly and function without issues. Don't excuse lazy manufacturers selling faulty crap.

@humble2246

11 ай бұрын

@youshimimi yes i agree however the solution she is referring to is just on another world

This almost feels like an april fools product vid lol :)

I noticed that almost every time you closed the dispenser you only closed the top and the bottom didn't close as much as the top. You can tell because the spacing between the top and the bottom is different. When you had it lying down it was forced to close the door evenly on both sides and that is probably why it worked better.

@keyrosepictures

11 ай бұрын

I noticed this as well. It was bugging me so much!

@PrecludeLP

11 ай бұрын

Pretty sure this is why it did not work very well.

@tkrichek

11 ай бұрын

I saw that too. The rollers had enough pressure at the top where it was latched, but too loose at the bottom where it wasn't latched causing it to bunch up.

@yeeisme

11 ай бұрын

So I reached out over on Twitter and James said that he tried closing it on both sides with the same result. I guess it does need to lie flat or it doesn't work at all? Weird that once it is righted after lying flat it works too?

You are a gem for making sure I don’t spend money on things that don’t need fixing.

because pulling on a roll of paper is hard.

@marciwhitman3513

11 ай бұрын

😂

This is going to be on my top 10 things in 2023 I didn't want, never asked for and didn't buy.

What's next, a $120 toilet paper dispenser? 😮

@affliction6911

11 ай бұрын

😂

@philflake

11 ай бұрын

They actually are out there.

@arianrhod

11 ай бұрын

And lazy?

@affliction6911

11 ай бұрын

@@arianrhod oooh stop.. you know if you won the lottery you would buy all kinds of worthless stuff.

@affliction6911

11 ай бұрын

@@philflake 😄😄😄😄

Kirkland brand works great in ours. I also usually pull more out when we program it. DO NOT HOLD IT after you close the door to program it. Let the machine do its thing. You were holding the end of the paper towel each time the thing got jammed… When you did not hold it it worked - including when it was on its side…

@Karadoxical

11 ай бұрын

Sitting here yelling at my screen, "Stop holding it!!" didn't seem to be working, so I had to come to the comments and at least see if someone else was yelling with me. Now I feel better. 😆

@Chimpware

11 ай бұрын

@@Karadoxical100% the same. So frustrating to watch him jam it over and over and then be like - huh maybe it’s the paper towels or maybe it’s the direction I am loading it.

@ArfenZard

11 ай бұрын

I was yelling at my phone too so I'm glad I wasn't alone. JUST LET GO OF IT!!!

@travispoulin252

11 ай бұрын

It was so frustrating that he kept holding it. Any resistance will cause the rollers to slip and pull unevenly causing it to bunch up. Also these use an optical sensor to know when it reaches the end of the paper when retracting. All you need is like an inch of paper sticking out to start with.

For $120 I expect it to cut my paper towels to specific sizes, not just dispense them. Like napkin size, small size, big size. Also for it to work everytime without issue...

@james0000

11 ай бұрын

The custom sizing device could be a decent product. I suggest you check into it and possibly start a kickstarter or whatnot if you don't find enough competition to already exist. So many ways to spin that as being eco-friendly as well as shopper friendly... could even be an opportunity to re-brand existing paper towel product. I could even see this being a commercial/industrial item that becomes ubiquitous.

Really nice review James. I think if you are spending over 100 then it should work far better than it does. If It cost £30 then I would consider buying it. Any more than that is far too much.

I’m really impressed that you cracked the code. I hope you take a few minutes to message the company and let them know. They could update their instructions with this information.

I laughed my ass off when I saw the title of the video. Who the hell thinks that someone who would pay that much for a paper towel dispenser would even use paper towels?

Well it's more than I would pay for it. I am glad that you were able to play around with it and get it working. From watching when it failed, I kinda thought it needed what you ended up doing to get it working. Great review.

There is a $30 paper towel ratcheting holder, I LOVE that one, the ratcheting mechanism let's you rip off 1 piece or multiple just with how fast you pull

@Zaguzah

11 ай бұрын

What's the brand?

@jefferyosborne9342

11 ай бұрын

@@Zaguzah kamenstein

@tarstarkusz

11 ай бұрын

The paper towel and TP dispenser were perfected many, many, many long years ago. This is something nobody wanted, nobody asked for and nobody is going to buy. 30 bucks is also too expensive and probably over complicates something that works well, has worked well and will continue to work well at 1/6th the cost. One of these days Amazon is going to recommend a 500 Dollar TP dispenser that takes 50 Dollar rolls of TP. This special app-controlled dispenser is going to automatically dispense the right amount of TP and order me new rolls when I'm getting close to running out. We have app controlled cups and toasters. So why not?

@ezioauditore7636

11 ай бұрын

@@tarstarkusz If you have the money, and you frequently end up with only one hand available, I mean why not.

@tarstarkusz

11 ай бұрын

@@ezioauditore7636 It's your money. Spend it how you see fit.

I would think having a guide inside to thread it behind would help to keep even pressure on the paper as it retracts. Or maybe a spool that you could tighten on the roll to stop the roll moving inside.

This has to be one of the funniest videos you’ve made! 😂

Just wait for their next revision which will require you to use only their DRM chipped paper towels. The next revision after that will offer a paper towel subscription where you'll pay a monthly subscription fee and if you cancel early, it'll incinerate the remaining paper towels.

The fail was wasting $120 on a paper towel dispenser.. are we really getting that lazy that we need technology to give us a paper towel?

@Rawr98

11 ай бұрын

Maybe it’s good for avoiding cross contamination

@meegstomtom

11 ай бұрын

Getting that lazy? We have been there for a long time.

@jefferyschic

11 ай бұрын

Yes, cause some of y'all dont even use soap

@rafsoto24

11 ай бұрын

@@Rawr98 we’ve made it this far… if you’re concerned about cross contamination at this point in life then maybe paper towels will the last thing you gotta worry about

@rafsoto24

11 ай бұрын

@@meegstomtom that’s true

Wow $120 is definitely alot for a paper towel dispenser, even OXO doesn't cost that much ($25) but its not electronic or motor powered. Thank you for the review i definitely have to show my wife this video 😄

Would like to see how it performs when the roll is almost depleted. Also, how close do you have to be to activate it? It would be annoying to have it spit out towels when you're just walking past it.

You are a highly intelligent, extremely motivated and persistent person who spent all this time on the totally pointless. Highly entertaining!

@GanNing221

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, he started to show more useless products in these past several months to "reinvent" the channel.

@sylverscale

11 ай бұрын

​@@GanNing221It's more that he already tried so much of the actually good stuff that more of the goofy or "who really needs that" stuff is left. But he still thoroughly tests everything and does honest reviews. That's what matters most to me.

@toko7746

7 ай бұрын

He didn't follow the insteuctions so idk about the intelligent part. Manual shows the dispenser on its side when loading.

I was hoping you'd try a mostly empty one to see how that fares. I bet it stops working as it gets thinner and lighter.

Yet another one of those thngs NOBODY needs---enjoyed the review and enthusiasm!! Also how in the heck did this make it to a production model!!

You know what the problem is? Bounty works because it’s taller and do stays in place. The other rolls are shorter so they don’t stay in place. When the gadget is stood up and the paper retracts, since nothing is holding the roll in place, it wiggles around inside and says it jams. The gadget will always work if there was something to hold the roll in place inside! 😂

Thank you so much for your reviews. You save us from spending so much money as well as prevent us the hassles of returning items. You should be a comedian. 👍👍👍

Oh gosh just grab a paper towel. I never saw a problem.

A$120 solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

I just got a paper towel holder from the Dollar Tree. It's made out of plastic and it's the kind that you screw into the wall. It has two arms that hold the paper towel roll. And that's it. it doesn't take up space on the counter and it can't fall into the sink because it's above the sink on a holder. I don't see any need to buy anything super expensive for paper towels

Are you sure when it was upright the bottom was pushed closed as well as the top. I felt it wasn't quite closed properly at the bottom.

@ki85squared

11 ай бұрын

This is why the "lay it on its side" technique worked. The door not being closed mean uneven roller pressure. I wish James would have noticed this, but I can't blame him. The device should detect the door being closed when both sides are latched.

I was going to buy this, thanks for saving me the frustration . Great review as always,thank you! ❤

@toko7746

7 ай бұрын

He had issues because he didnt follow the manual. They clearly show the dispenser on its side when loading/programming.

When James said "were off on a roll here now", I waited for him to look at the camera with a deadpan look on his face and say, pun not intended, lol.

one of the main differences seems to be you are holding the paper towel by the top edge creating some tension as it tries to retract the towel when it is standing up. When you put it on its side you were leaving it alone and it was supported evenly by the table so it could retract evenly. I think you were kind of messing it up

Thanks for the review. It reminded me that I have to put paper towels on my shopping list for tomorrow. 😊

Ice wizard of paper towels. Overly complex and tries to solve a problem that doesn't exist

“I think we’re on a roll here!” Congratulations on success but mostly for the pun.😂

That's awesome that you figured out how to make it work! 😂

You actually gave that product value now, we appreciate it playa

If want you want is a hands free towel dispenser, you can get a commercial unit pretty cheap. all of the units google shows when searching "electric towel dispenser" come in at under a hundred Dollars They use the cheap bulk brown paper rolls you tend to see in public restrooms, so the running costs will be lower as well.

This would be a pretty neat $40 product. Could help reduce use if you have a paper towel hog at the house.

So I noticed you often held the paper towel outward before it pulled it in. There might be enough tension there to cause it to bunch up. Can you try just closing it and not touching the towel?

Freakin' Reviews has finally transcended "reading the instructions", Now you MAKE the instructions.

Thank you for a very entertaining review!

I own the under the cabinet model. I really hated it at first due to all the problems I was having. Quickly learned if you're not using bounty it doesn't work well. You also have to learn to made a quick and clean pull when you use it.

Truly a solution for people who are afraid of germs and viruses. Might as well buy one of those public bathroom paper towel dispensers! The towels will last longer because you can get larger rolls and the size is usually between a half and full sheet of normal paper towel rolls. Only thing I'm unsure of is what type of quality you can get the public bathroom paper towel rolls. Most I've seen are pretty low end "paper-y" rather than high end "cloth-y".

This is the perfect product to tell the world "I have too much money; please take some from me"!

It appeared to me that the problem was, you were holding the towel before it retracted, which caused it to bunch. After you tear the towel, you shouldn’t need to hold the excess and guide it back in.

I wonder if it's the holding/touching the paper towels plus gravity causing a misalignment when first putting the roll in that screws with it, that's why the side loading works so well, especially because the papertowels are even supported on the first retraction

Lol. This reminds me of when I was a kid back in 1967 and my Grandpa gave my sister an old camera to take pictures at Expo 67 in Montreal. This camera took film on a roll which had to be loaded and fed through various sprockets and spring tensioners before closing the door. Try as we might we could never get the film to load properly. It would either jam or wind backwards and the picture number usually just stayed at 24. And although my sister pointed it at various attractions and pressed the shutter button, we never did get any pictures of Expo 67.

Definitely the best idea for paper towel holder. Is those ones that click as you pull so it gives tension. Simple easy and nothing to mess with like this hahaha

This is a very mature technology that you see in just about every single public bathroom. To see this fail so hard means these people have no clue how to engineer a product like this

There are already so many kitchen gadgets that require an outlet, I would never consider buying an electric paper towel dispenser

Must be very satisfying to figure out a way to make it work consistently

Like cocaine, a $120 paper towel dispenser is God's way of telling you you've got too much money. Admittedly, not as harmful to your health, but my lack of patience with inanimate objects would get my blood pressure dangerously high.

I would also use the cheap paper towels because I spent all my money on the dispenser :)

James, the OG paper jammer....you're better than I am, I'd have taken out my 22 and blew that thing to kingdom come! Happy Wednesday 👍

@bikeny

11 ай бұрын

I think @KentuckyBallistics using his "The 4 BORE Rifle (The Biggest Rifle EVER !!!)" would do a great job of sending it to kingdom come and having the SloMoGuys record it at like 100,000 frames per second would be the cherry on top.

@sandybruce9092

11 ай бұрын

@@bikenyI’d like to see video of that!!!

A learning curve for paper towel is wild

I bought a lovely paper towel holder at the Goodwill Store for $2. No moving parts, no programming, no plug in. No problem!

“I think we’re on a roll here”.

About 98% of these gadgets are solutions looking for problems that just don't exist.

I have to think it would get worse the closer to the end of the roll you got too considering as you said, theres no spool for the paper towel roll. Id think long term the only way for it to be consistent would be laying down but then its so much counter top real estate.

People are that lazy that they are willing to spend 120 dollars on a paper towel dispenser.

"I think we're on a ROLL here!" Indeed we are!

The real fail is anyone that would spend $120.00 for a paper towel dispenser.

"Off on a roll here now..." I see what you did there.

I think part of it is that it needs the towels to be almost perfectly straight when you tear it. If you tear the towel so that the remaining towels go towards the top or bottom it catches and then causes it to "jam" up a bit. I wouldn't go for a $120 paper towel dispenser but it was a fun review to watch.

@Freakinreviews

Ай бұрын

Yeah it's finnicky about the angle and placement. Good idea WHEN it works!

Thank you for your review on this product. At this price it should work flawlessly.

Yet every restroom in universities have automatic towel dispensers that work fine even after being punched by thousands of hungover freshman.

This one of those things that I say "why do anyone need it?" about. Almost feels like more of hassle than pulling one or two sheets of from a normal dispenser.

It seems to me that the problem is that you have to senter the towels in the slot 100% perfect before closing the lid, or the dispenser will pull on the towels and crumple the paper. Or manby the dispenser only works vertical.

It’s like a printer…”Paper Jam” error! 😂😂

Like many new and 'smart' new gadgets, it provides a solution to a non-problematic issue

I Never seen Soooooo Much Hassle over a Problem that doesn't Exist. Just tear your paper towel yourself a save $100. 😂

This just marginally more useful than that stupid Juceiro from 6 years ago🤣 Because pulling a paper towel is too much work apparently.

I was just thinking how much time and energy I waste dispensing and ripping paper towels. Now I can finally start living!

I've had the wall mounted version for many years. Never an issue. Buy them for gifts all the time. I paid 79 dollars on Amazon.

I have a 20 yr old paper towel holder under my counter, LOVE IT!!!

He keeps all brands of paper towels in business. How many different kind of rolls do you keep man? 😂

The 2023 version of the Juicero

I can just imagine that thing in a household with cats. 🤣🤣🤣

Could see this for a 3D resin printing setup. Hands-free would be helpful

@soogymoogi

11 ай бұрын

Omg you're right! God that would be super useful

Looks like there is a second latch on the bottom side of the door when standing up. The gap isn't even and I'm guessing the rollers aren't contacting on both sides evenly, that's why it's bunching. Close the door tighter until you hear a click on both sides is my suggestion.

I'd save that money, and buy beer.

The only purpose of this is the quick dopamine some people get after buying something

Finally that my printer has been working correctly, this thing comes into existence!

My only question so far… did you send it back and asked for a refund?! Cause you should in my opinion 😂

Just get the plastic for the top of the paper towel roll. Cheap and effective.

Wish it wasn't so expensive. As cool as it is I can't see, in this day & age when so many people have to take out a 2nd mortgage to buy groceries, spending that amount of money on a paper towel dispenser. 🤷‍♀️

I’d like one of these for tp, I have a cat that always likes to try to eat it so we have to hide it from her. Although, she may be smart enough to find a way to trigger the motion detection 😅

They created a solution for a problem that doesn't exist.

Looking at the manual they only show it being loaded while on its side not when it is standing up. So that means you are suppose to use it laying down because it was originally designed to be mounted under the cabinet.

It looks like standing up it doesn't like the softer/thinner paper. And it looks like nothing I would ever buy. 😅 😂

Kudos for how patient and encouraging you were towards it as I could see it was trying. Still, $120 and all that fussing to get it to work - I'll stick with the one which came installed under the cabinet with the house when I bought it.

That's when you go around looking for places that are under renovation or going out of business. You ask them if you could have their old paper towel dispenser. then you use that