Whenever I see a bunch of positive reviews and one negative one, I think to myself, "well, that person doesn't know how to use it" or something like that.  So, now I am the one that maybe missed something.  The spreader worked fabulously well the first time.  I am trying to spread that grasshopper bait, it looks like wheat bran.  It was fluffing out lightly in all directions and giving an even disbursal in several directions.  It was perfect.