Cuisinart Cordless Rechargeable Hand Blender

This is the worst [rather pricey, name-brand] item I have seen in a long time. Received the product, seemed to be dead, so okay, no problem, let it charge. But after an hour or two, the three charge lights were still blinking. Had to look in the manual to decode the meaning, cause it still seemed to have no power. The manual says when there is 1 solid light and two blinking, that it has 40% charge, and when 2 are solid, it has 80%, and all 3 are 100% (or something like that). But it had two blinking and the first one was blinking as well, but much more intermittently/slowly. Finally figured out that in order to turn it on, you have to hold one button (with a lock picture) and when the lights come on, you can hold the power button and it runs. If you want to pulse, you can press the power button intermittently, but if you let go for more than a couple seconds, the light goes out, then you have to start over. It's ABSURD! By this point, I knew it was going back... It also didn't 'seem' very powerful, but I put it in a bowl of water and it churned pretty well (didn't try with anything thick though). Of course it has the two attachments, which is nice, and they are easy cleaning cause they are detachable. Would have liked if the main unit was also waterproof, for easy cleaning should it get food slopped on it, but it seemed clear the housing was not water-tight. After charging some 12+ hours (never finished -lights kept blinking), and when I unplugged, it seemed to have only 2-lights-worth of charge, which quickly went down to only 1, so obviously the battery was flawed/old. And of course it's not a removable battery, so the whole thing is garbage when that quits... There are a bunch of immersion blenders listed for under $20 and I bet every one of them is better.