Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Amazon Basics Vertical Ergonomic 2.4G Wireless Optical Mouse

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Don't get an ergonomic mouse unless you've tried one.

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2019

Quality-wise, this is great. So far everything works well, and I haven't had any problems. The features are solid, and the buttons work. But, the vertical mouse isn't for everyone. I apprehended one because everyone says they're more comfortable. They are not.

I was quite happy with normal mice but I heard so much about these I had to give one a go. My styloid process is jammed on my table and I have to press in on the mouse with my thumb and fingers to push buttons.

There's also no quick movements from the keyboard to the mouse anymore since you have to grip it instead of just shove your hand onto it, and it's tall so half the time I smack it right off my desk.

However, those are ergonomic mouse gripes common with all of them.

If you know you want an ergonomic mouse, this is good! If you aren't sure, and your mouse doesn't hurt your wrist, then you don't need one.

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Comfortable mouse with a terrible sensor

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2020

The mouse itself is very comfortable with nice buttons and layout but the sensor is really poor. I haven't used a mousepad in forever but this mouse will probably need one. It lags a lot when moving across my desk.

Update: I'm dropping this down to 1-star. the sensor is just really terrible. Barely works. It's just a shame because everything else is great. But having a bad sensor just makes the mouse extremely frustrating to use.

Update 2: I'm increasing the rating back to 3. I changed the batteries in the mouse and it works a lot better now. I've never had a mouse whose performance degraded with battery life, it's normally pretty binary.

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S. E. Facci

Great mouse for small hands

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2019

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I ordered this after returning the vertical mouse from Anker, which was wayyy too big for me.
This one is on the larger size of small, but it works well for me. It wouldn't be good for children, but seems good for the average sized female hand. The placement of the forward/back buttons on the side is better than the previous off-brand mouse I was using, it's lightweight, and has a great little slot near the battery for storing the USB dongle. So far happy with it. It doesn't have silent clicks, but they're not disruptive either if you work near other people.

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Jennifer in Florida

Best mouse I have ever used!

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2020

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This vertical mouse was easy to adapt to, and relieves my thumb and wrist pain that has been hampering my computer use terribly. I like having my hand up on the desk, above the keyboard, which is where it has to be placed to use correctly. It is too tall to fit on my keyboard drawer under the desktop. With this mouse, I hardly even use my touchscreen. I recommend that anyone with arthritis in the thumb area try this.

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Good Ergonomic mouse

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2020

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Works well. I like it auto shutoff when not used. Quite responsive too.

I do need couple days to get used to the grip transitioning from regular mouse. However, I will say that Ergonomic mouse works better for my hand as I don't get tired after about couple hours of use.

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Comppaul

Works as well as regular mouse but comfortable

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2020

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This is a good ergonomic mouse. I have used some others, but this works well and light to use. It works very well even though it is wireless. Color me happy.

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Constantine Ever

strangely comfortable

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2021

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Takes a day to get used to. Can't really use it with left hand... only right-handed.
Simple but good mouse.

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Adrian Manjarres Caraballo

Helped A Lot with Hand and Wrist Pain

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2020

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Now that all of my schoolwork is online, I've been having to use a mouse frequently and other ones would leave my wrist and hand sore from the strain and unnatural position, whereas this mouse is more comfortable and has my hand in a more natural position so it reduces strain

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