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I bought one of the capped ones last August. It was fairly expensive compared to other brands but thier advertisement about thier tip sold me on one. Think it was around 50 dollars with shipping. The constructions is good. However, it does not work at all. I figured it was because I use a screen protector so I was like, Oh well! Tried the iFariday standard stylus for less then 20 dollars inluding shipping and it works with screen protector on. I originally bought the Stylus-R-Us for an iPod Touch. Tried it with several different screen protectors and it would never registyer anything no matter how lightly or hard I touched the screen. Put it away and never used it.

I'm writing this review now because I just gave it to my friend who just got the iPad 3. I have to actually push down super hard with the Stylus-R-Us to get it to register at all. It registers only stlightly probably about 5% of the time after pushing down extremely hard. The iPad aslo has a screen protector on it.

It's probably the screen protectors causing the Stylus-R-Us not to work. That would be my guess. But the iFariday standard cheapy works even with the screen protector.

I also tried a rubber tipped stylus from Best Buy before getting the iFariday. I think it cost like $30. The rubber tip was horrible. It did not register very well and did not feel smooth when dragging across the screen.

One other thing to mention about Stylus-R-Us is they constently have this disclaimers about how to use it, on thier website, in the instructions that come with it. They make you feel like the thing is extremely delicate and if doesn't work it is because you are an idiot. Also they claim screen protectors are a waist, totally unneccesary and a marketing scheme.

On the other hand, the iFariday claims thier tip is strong enough to use it to click on the menu button on ipads and ipods. Also give directions on how to clean it if neccessary. So you don't feel like the thing is this delicate fragile thing that if it doesn't work it's user error. They also say it is more responsive without a screen protector but use them themselves.

So my experience with Stylus-R-Us was disappointing. But again, this may be because I choose to use a screen protector.