paper shredders

[metallicat]

Well my Fellowes paper shredder gave up the ghost and I need to replace it. Out of curiousity I went googling and learned that there are a lot of complaints about Fellowes. Allegedly they use cheap plastic and after one year, if it breaks, there are no replacement parts. Planned obsolesence. This is what happened to me over a year ago. The paper basket broke and I called Fellowes and they said they had no replacement basket. I have been balancing the power head on a waste paper basket for over a year. I don't want to go through that again so am looking at other brands....Destroyit and Dahle. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. I'm looking for a SOHO/home model. It wouldn't be used every day but on occassion maybe would be shredding up to 100 pages, a crosscut or confetti cut shredder preferably.

 

[cognitivefun]

there are a lot of cheap paper shredders. Then people complain when they feed in credit cards, CDs, and most especially whole envelopes stuffed with credit card offers and the poor things choke

I have a Fellowes cross cut shredder and I paid about $250 for it on sale. I oil it now and then. I feed it all sorts of stuff but not more than about 10 pages of thickness at a time and usually not that much. I am a fan of spending more money on things that involve motors like garbage disposals and paper shredders. It is an investment that pays off in much less stress and jamming.

 

[Daniel]

I have a Royal Cross Cut Shredder. It works great!

I bought it at Sam's Club a couple of years ago.