Well I went for the bargain and got the Philips Satin Ice, in fact just got thru usin, it is very, very, very painful…I’m still nervous to try on entire chest and ab area. It does works very effectively though, I used on my neckline and it seems very smooth and hairless, it does however, have difficulty gettin the little hairs w/o repeated tries, oh and the sound well…it sounds like a small jet rocket, haha, no but it is a quite loud buzz when it goes kinda of like a hair trimmer x3. My Satin Ice cost about somewhere around $26, but I got ripped you can get them cheaper than that. People on this site said check out www.overstock.com, I do believe someone correct me if I’m wrong and I went there and I think they had been raised in price to around $21, but $2 s&h or so, can’t beat that. Hope this helps…