An item like this either functions, or it doesn’t, so it is either five stars or 1 star. 5 from me for the reason that I’ve had it for a few weeks now and it appears to work just fine. I was concerned when ordering it because of the few poor evaluations, but it was so darned affordable I couldn’t resist. I went ahead and wrapped electrical tape across the personal computer plug-in plus the 1st inch of wire to shield it from too much bending and pressure, due to the fact that’s exactly where my original 1 failed and I can imagine an affordable item like this not tolerating a lot of use/abuse.