Customer Reviews

Fellowes P-400C Confetti-Cut Paper Shreddrer with Basket (Black)

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It STRUGGLES with ONE SHEET OF PAPER for god sake! Also, buried in the instruction manual is that it can ONLY WORK FOR 5 MINUTES before it needs a rest, POOR BABY!! It's like you are rooting it on, "Come on 'lil fellow, you can do it!" But it can't. I don't know if the model I got was defective or if this brand is just junk. My opinion is STAY AWAY!

This shredder blows! It is a worthless POS. I can't believe it actually jams with three pieces of paper. And then it's almost impossible to get it to go in reverse. You end up having to rip the paper out by hand and then feed it through one piece at a time. I will never buy another Fellowes shredder! :-/

This product is a sham.
Mine broke, as in destroyed, on 4th use. I simply fed it too many sheets. I would think that would jam it, not destroy it. the plastic drive gears shredded instead of the paper.

I ordered this shreddrer sometime last month and just pulled it out today to use - I was so excited. According to Consumer Reports this is one of the Top 3 Shreddrers. I put 1-2 pieces of paper to shred and it jams. I have spent about an hour trying to remove the jammed paper which it seems most of it is gone, but it still won't shred. Thank God I have another shredder that I've had for years which wasn't even listed by Consumers Reports - sometimes you have to go with the no name brands. I do not reccommend this product!!

I'm looking for a new shedder and I have to vent about this one. I got mine at office depot and lost receipt. When cleaning it, sheds land up everywhere. You can't see how full it is and it is possible for the shreds to feed back up into the shedder. It is supposed to take a credit card and jammed up. It died. Waste of money.

This is a very weak product. It jammes easily, I would not reccommend it.

This shredder is not a real bang for your buck but it will do the job. After a couple of sheets it does seem to labor sometimes. When maintenance is performed it does well for a while. I did try to shred a credit card through this shredder and it made me think that I was breaking the unit. I had to back it out and that was the last time I'll do that. Overall, it will get he job done for your regular bills and top secret papers but I wouldn't go any further than that.

Just noticed the reviews for this shredder and decided to add my 2 cents. I've had this shredder for years. It just keeps going. I do oil it from time to time, but it essentially works as well now as it did when I originally bought it.

Things you should know:

1. The basket is small. 2-3 minutes of shredding will fill the basket at which point the shredder starts to labor. When that happens you either need to empty it or push everything down. Pushing everything down (compacting it) has the side benefit of making it slightly less of a mess when you do eventually empty it because the shreds tend to stick together.

2. Anything more difficult to shred than 2 pieces of paper together will cause it to labor. I also tried shredding a credit card and it was NOT happy.

3. On mine, the motor rarely stops once the paper is shredded -- I need to flip off the switch.

Now that said, it's a perfectly adequate shredder within those constraints. If you want something small, for occasional use (I only use mine once a month, if that), it's fine. But this is not a powerful shredder. Fellowes does make some commercial shredders that I use at work, and they run beautifully. But they also cost a lot more than this one. So if you can live with its limitations, this one is fine. If you're going to be shredding paper every day or even every week, you'd likely be happier spending more money and looking for something with a bigger basket and a greater rated capacity. I think the brand is fine; it's the price point that's the important variable.

Decent reliable and at a fairly good price

This printer binds up on two pieces of paper! If there is the least resistance during a jam, the flimsy plastic gears become stripped and the printer is trash. This is what happened to me after less than two months of light use...and I stayed within the manufacturer's guidelines. However, there is NO WARRANTEE on this printer, so BUYER BEWARE.