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Fellowes 34250 Shredmate Shredder (Platinum Gray)

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I recently ordered this product for a gift. The first was received with a cracked piece. An exchange was sent through Amazon. The second one also came broken... this time with a bad connection for the top of the Shredder... it wouldn't work without scotch taping the connection. Don't Buy.......

Overall, I do like (and will constantly use) this shredder, but it does have one annoying feature: if you put a piece of paper in JUST right, the cut size is sufficiently large (~ 32mm x 4mm) that an entire phone/SS number can appear on one of the shredded strips. Shredding 3 sheets at once is the listed limit, but it can do 8 sheets slowly, and 6 sheets with little trouble.

This shredder performed quite well until my daughter inserted credit card receipts with a penny hidden in the folds. It only shredded half the penny before it died. It WAS a nice desktop shredder that handled all my home shredding needs. I plan to buy another one.

When I first used it i tried to shred 6 papers at a time, which was a mistake... It got jammed in the middle of the papers. When I tried to reverse it, it went for about 1mm then got jammed again, tried foreward, jammed, backward, jammed. Tried for about 3 times, then I gave up. I picked the papers out, half by half.. When I thought it was all out, I tried running it foreward again, still jammed.. I found little scraps of paper causing the blades to be jammed. I am going to have my husband fix it. I may just be a 26 year old female that doesnt know much about electronics, but I think that is sorta pathetic.