Short answer. NO!
Don't waste your money buying them.
I can back it up with scientific proof.
One of our daughters, Alissa, did a science fair project testing such devices when she was in high school. She had a glass enclosure about two feet by six feet by 1 1/2 feet high which had a top. She divided it with an insulated board which had a small opening. The "pest repeller" was put in one side and the white mice could pass freely between the two sides.
No matter whether the repeller was turned on or off, the mice showed no preference as to which side they were occupying. And those that were on the repeller side did not flee when it was turned on.
Simple conclusion: It did not work!
Yet, people keep buying them over and over and over.
That's not unlike management mistakes that are sometimes made over and over and over. J. P. Morgan comes to mind with recent risky trading schemes. To be successful, a manager needs to learn from mistakes and not repeat them. Actually, that's true for lots, if not all, people.
Of course, the real fun began when some of the mice escaped! The little white furry things ran about the house for a number of weeks. Every now and then, one of our cats would score a major hunting victory! Eventually there were no more white mice.
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