Customer Reviews

Fellowes FS5 Strip Cut Shredder (30510)

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First, I should say that I wasn't expecting to buy a high end machine for this price. I was looking for a light duty machine for home use. This product goes way beyond disapointment. It has difficulty in shredding almost all types of paper. It will often leave large sections intact, and READABLE. Kind of defeats the purpose of why you would buy a shredder, don't ya think? It is a noisy unit that also jams very easily. I don't know where the 5 sheet capacity came from, but I can tell you this, mine has trouble handling one sheet at a time! You would do better with a pair of scissors, or better yet, give it to the dog! Either one would be faster, and far less aggravating!

We bought an FS5 for home use. We don't have a home business or anything; we just wanted to shred the usual address labels and old statements. We bought the FS5 which CLAIMS to shred up to 5 sheets. Forget it. We just spent 20 minutes trying to shred 30 pages - ONE AT A TIME - and it still buckled under the "load". If we tried 2 pages at once, it jammed. While the reverse feature works very well, the forward jams constantly. If you try to shred more than a single page thick, it doesn't cut all all - just leaves an impression where the blades ran over the page. What a waste of money!!
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Can I give it -3 stars? I guess not...

This shredder was awful. I recently bought it. I figured "how complicated can a shredder be? You put paper in it and it get shredded."

I was wrong... This machine turns paper shredding into an excercise in self restraint. I had to restrain myself from throwing it out in the yard. Talk about frustration... The box indicated five sheets of paper... What are they talking about, tracing paper, tissue paper...

It jammed on the first sheet. After several minutes getting it unjammed, I tried again. I figured I put the paper in wrong. Stupid me... Put the paper in wrong? How many ways are there to put paper in? What was I thinking? What a piece of junk.

I kept it for several days. After this excersise, I decided it was more beneficail for me to have a bonfire in the front yard to incenerate my documents. Lucky for me, I was able to take it back and get my money back (a store credit).

I should have looked at Amazon for reviews first. Who would have thought that a paper shredder could actually not work?

GOT THIS [POORLY MADE] PAPER SHREDDER AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT - FROM MY BARGIN HUNTER SISTER - BROKE ON THE FIRST USAGE - WHEN I WENT ON LINE TO SEE IF THERE WAS MUCH COST INVOLVE - I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN IT WOULD BE THE [WORST] SHREDDER THERE, NOT EVEN WORTH THE SHIPPING CHARGES.

I recently purchased one of these because it is cheaper than what the office supply stores now offer, which is the shredder with a trash container. I used it this past weekend. Had no problems whatsoever. In reading the other reviews I wonder if these other people read the manual where is states to only use it for 5 minutes at a time and then to let it rest for 15 minutes. Some people probably find that inconvenient, but I have no problem in following that.