$5 off voucher Dettol's new No-Touch Hand Wash System‏

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  stumo on 03/08/2010 - 18:22

  +1

  Hmmm, I don't get it. You only touch the "germy soap pump" before you wash your hands, not after.

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    anthony on 03/08/2010 - 18:35

    +2

    It is just a marketing thing for out germaphobic society.

    If you can find an episode of BBC Horizon called "Allergy Planet" it is worth watching

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    kwaker on 03/08/2010 - 18:36

    -1

    its No touch meaning you dont touch it at all, its an automatic sensor.

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      stumo on 03/08/2010 - 18:58

      +4

      Yeah, I can read. Let me put it another way….
      On a normal manual soap pump, you know the non-revolutionary (or even magical) kind… what happens to those germs you just touched when you pumped the soap?

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        freddy on 03/08/2010 - 20:21

        -1

        Agreed. This product is so stupid it cannot be useful to anyone. ergo no bargain.
        Even anti-bacterial soap is a bad idea. Invented by marketing people who create a perceived need to sell useless products.
        The automatic dispenser is doubly useless.

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          walugi on 03/08/2010 - 21:10

          +1

          @freddy: vote for the bargain not the product…

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          Save Medicare on 03/08/2010 - 23:28

          @freddy: LOL "ergo". I've never seen anyone but Descartes use that word.

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            eug on 03/08/2010 - 23:32

            @Save Medicare: you haven't watched the matrix? :)

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              blitz on 04/08/2010 - 05:19

              @eug: List of movies and TV shows that have used the word, "ergo".

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          [Deactivated] on 04/08/2010 - 05:51

          @freddy: freddy -valid comment but not valid vote. Please update yourself on the voting guidelines. Voe revoked

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        eug on 03/08/2010 - 22:35

        +3

        I have one of these (of a different brand) and find them really useful as my hands get dirty and grimy from working on the car or bicycle. I can turn on the tap lever with my elbow so I don't get oil on it, but a small manual soap dispenser is difficult to press, especially if it isn't full (which makes it light and unstable).

        With this, I won't get oil and grime on the soap dispenser, which takes a lot longer to clean off than normal dirt. If I got heavy oil and grime on a normal soap dispenser, and then later on used it to wash my relatively-cleaner hands before eating, I'd end up getting heavy oil and grime on it, which would then take longer to clean off.

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        slowmo on 04/08/2010 - 03:32

        Well, they get on top of the pump which you just touched and start breeding (oh noes!) :P

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      Josh81 on 04/08/2010 - 03:58

      what's wrong with your brain?

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    lazed on 03/08/2010 - 19:04

    +1

    Yep it's really stupid product. You have to turn the tap on with your dirty hands to get the water flowing, you wash your hands without having to touch a soap dispenser, then have to touch the tap again to turn it off. Oh noez the germs are back!

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      stumo on 03/08/2010 - 19:15

      yer but you could already have automatic taps and hand dryers, which are useful in the global war on germs.

      But this soap dispenser product actually defies its own logic.

      Its quite amazing the lengths companies go to to extract money from dumb people.

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        anthony on 03/08/2010 - 19:24

        which are useful in the global war on germs

        I hope that is sarcasm.

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          heatseeker424 on 03/08/2010 - 19:26

          @anthony: I also hope he was joking about having automatic taps and hand dryers.

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            themonty on 03/08/2010 - 23:53

            +1

            @heatseeker424: well, if you live in a modern flat/house, it's nothing new really.. we're in the 21st century ;)

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            slowmo on 04/08/2010 - 03:34

            @heatseeker424: a true germaphobe will have their very own UV light to disinfect their hands after washing. :D

            Though auto taps are useful in saving water … unless you have an annoying kid which thinks its fun to play with the sensors.

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              anthony on 04/08/2010 - 09:48

              +1

              @slowmo:

              Though auto taps are useful in saving water

              In a public place where people might not turn off the taps i agree but i dont see them saving water for a house as it is your house so you will always turn the tap off.

              I dont think they would save water in your house unless you were to set the turn off period for when it thinks you have moved your hands away to 0 seconds but using taps with such a short delay are annoying as if you are still washing your hands and move too far away from the sensor the tap turns off.
              With normal taps you can also control the water flow manually so if you only want a little bit of water you can have it, you lose this control on a sensor tap and have a set flow rate each time.

              In a domestic house i think the extra electricity you use for powering the taps would have a greater impact than the water you might save.

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                eug on 04/08/2010 - 10:42

                @anthony: Well… I don't think it suits everyone either, but they do have their place. Auto taps can be handy for doing the dishes, depending on your washing style. There are often 'dead times' when you're soaping the dish where it's too inconvenient to keep switching the tap on and off. Very oily dishes, or dishes with dried-on foodstuff need occassional rinses while you're soaping.

                Auto taps can also be very useful for people who do work that really dirties their hands, like as I mentioned before, working on cars or anything oily/grimy.

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  Mnke on 03/08/2010 - 18:29

  It says its valid only with the club card. So its useless if you dont have one.

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    kwaker on 03/08/2010 - 18:35

    you could sign up and get one,

    i think they are roughly $20, thats what i saw them for at coles

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  Fixit on 03/08/2010 - 18:36

  Also the voucher says no copies

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    anthony on 03/08/2010 - 19:24

    It is a PDF on the priceline website, if you print it then it isnt a copy

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  cardiology on 03/08/2010 - 18:37

  I saw these on the shelf yesterday at Coles selling at $19 or $20?
  It is a automatic dispenser with a sensor to sense your hand below the pump.

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  anthony on 03/08/2010 - 19:25

  You probably cannot use anything but dettol.
  For the same price you can probably get one on ebay and use any soap you like!

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  macharmaine on 03/08/2010 - 21:17

  they are about $20. you need to buy their refill to fit into the dispenser. unless you keep the bottle and pour your own other brand handwash into it. it only fit 250ml. they dont sell large bottles of 750ml refill.

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  KLoNe on 03/08/2010 - 22:32

  +2

  Hello OzBargain team. I too would have thought that this is an utterly stupid device for the stupid, trendy football mum until about a week ago when a work mate bought one of these things from Jaycar (Electus Distribution).

  I asked him why the hell he bought it and then he explained about his wife…

  His wife has a bone disease where once in awhile she loses some use of her hands, they just don't respond or cannot put much pressure on them - not only that but her fingers are now starting to fuse/graft together by themselves. It was a terrible story to hear… Hopefully this clears up some use of this product.

  (no, I do not work for this company or anything like that).

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    anthony on 03/08/2010 - 23:52

    +1

    I think anyone would fully understand the need for a product for someone with what sounds like a terrible situation.

    The issue people have is that it is being sold as something so you dont have to "touch a germy soap pump again"

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  Josh81 on 04/08/2010 - 04:02

  Thanks for the bargain. Stupid product, not worth a $1 over the cost of the soap itself.

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  FloatingPoint on 13/08/2010 - 02:20

  Guys, I saw Woolworths were selling this at $10 yesterday.