Malem Wireless Alarm (MO12): Deceit by Concealment.

Malem Wireless Alarm (MO12)     http://www.malem.co.uk/wireless-alarm      (July 3, 2013)

Looking at Malem’s website (above) for its MO12 wireless alarm is an exercise in frustration. How can such an “old” company present such a little information about its product, and present it incompletely? Following are some of their limited comments or explanations about their product:

“Comfortable, compact and light-weight.” What is its size, weight, etc.?

“Easy to set up and use.” How? Why?

“Transmitter magnetically clips to underpants waistband.” How? Explanation? Description?

“Uses Malem’s famous unisex Easy-Clip sensor.” Substantiation? Description?

“Advanced auto channel tuning with 64 choices.” This means what? Explanation?

The other such statements are rather trivial and obvious.

For a bedwetting alarm, using sound as its only alarm, we find the absence of loudness for the alarm to be disturbing. The reader should be interested in the loudness of the audio alarm at a typical distance from the ear where the alarm is usually placed.

All-in-all, these are rather incomplete explanations, with poor details (if any) of what is being provided and how it works. This is deceit by concealment.

The plus about Malem’s site is that there is no absurd bragging about being the “best” or other extravagant claims that some other bedwetting alarm manufacturers make.

Still, we come away from looking at this site feeling quite ignorant about Malem’s alarm. Perhaps Malem thinks that everyone should know everything that there is to know about their alarm, or simply assume that because this is Malem, nothing merits much explanation. To us this is akin to Malem saying “Since we are Malem, we don’t need to say or explain much. And if you don’t understand this adequately, tough!” Perhaps Malem does not particularly care if their site is user friendly, or readers understand their product.

We would urge the reader to go to a detailed comparative site such as http://urinealarms.com/Wireless_Alarm_Chart.html  and compare this alarm’s properties and price with those of other wireless bedwetting alarms.

Deceit by Concealment.