This is a product that I bought out of pure and simple stupidity, I thought it looked kinda neat so I bought one. Upon buying it and getting it home I discovered it to be cheaply made hard plastic with a GEL pad at the wrist rest point. This is one of those items that in my opinion was packaged very misleadingly. It is not at all what I expected, being a MOUSE PAD I assumed it would be of a soft vinyl construction or something of that sort but it is hard plastic. The Pad being a stiff single piece of plastic makes it difficult to use, the pad slides easier than the mouse. Now we come to the wrist rest or at least what is left of it the wrist rest released from the unit ten minutes after we tried it, now the wrist rest is resting in the trash. I guess I can't really blame the manufacture for making a bad product because it appears to be made alright it's just a dumb idea to begin with. I would not recommend this to anyone unless I wanted to end the friendship this product is junk.
Really unfortunate that it wasn't a better made product, particularly for the price you paid. I know exactly what it's like from your description though, thanks for the info, will steer clear of it.
Ouch! What a shoddy product this is. Thank you for bringing this to our attention King!