Customer Reviews

Fellowes Powershred® Shredder Bags for All Personal Models, 100 Bags & Ties/Carton (36052)

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3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(16)

 

 

I agree with most other reviewers of this product. These bags are vastly *inferior* to the bags which ship with the shredder. I also contacted Fellowes, and they said that the bags which ship with the unit are unavailable for purchase. These inferior bags are the only bags they sell. This is unfortunate, because the shredder is first quality, and the are blemishing the Fellowes brand by selling inferior bags.

I should have read the reviews before I purchased these bags, as I would have looked elsewhere. I was told by Fellowes that the # 36053 (not sold by Amazon) bags are slightly thicker and larger but still not nearly as good as the bags which ship with the unit.

Overall I am disappointed in the response of Fellowes. In this difficult economy one would hope they would be interested in both (a) earning more money and (b) responding to customer complaints by selling a better product.

I have a Fellows SB-97Cs and use tall kitchen bags. They are more durable but do require a bit more care during installation.

There's absolutely no reason to pay $27 for 100 bags, when you can just use the cheap clear plastic office wastebasket liners (7 to 10 gallon) that sell for $18 for *500* at Costco, Sam's Club, etc. I just finished a major shredding job with my Fellowes DMC12, and used many of those.

These bags are extremely thin and rip just trying to open the bag. Not even good enough for a trash can, no less a shredder basket. I switched back to just normal trash bags after just using 2 bags because they only ripped opened and then I had to use another bag anyway.

They fit the shredder, and it's really great to not have to empty the basket by turning it upside down, then pulling off all the little bits of cofetti that stuck.


It would be nice if the bags fit more snugly -- the top kind of hangs out of the basket, and doesn't look all that neat -- but they are cheap plastic bags, after all.

Found out regular discount store garbage bags work just as well and cost less. The oil is a neccesary evil to keep schredder working properly.

These bags are a perfect fit for my shredder, a Fellowes model MS-460C. They look like they would fit most shredders of this home-office size. The bag material is thin and milky, see-through color. A hundred of these bags come in a small box 8 inches wide by 6.5 inches deep by 3 inches height... very easy to store in a small space. The bag material looks and feels like the biodegradable bags I use for lawn clippings, so I think it will dissolve in the land fill. Twist ties for closing the full bag before discarding it are included in the box. Now for a philosophical question. While this product was on backorder, I was using white 13 gallon kitchen sized trash bags with a built-in red drawstring to close it when full. Now these bags are taller than necessary, but they still fit the shredder OK, and the drawstring is a whole lot easier and more convenient to use than twist ties. A box of 100 of these kitchen-sized trash bags at Costco is priced significantly less than this box of 100 shredder bags. So you should try one of the kitchen-sized bags first if you have one around the house, then ask yourself if you really need to buy the special shredder bags.

These bags neither fit nor hold up well...in fact, they are pricey and useless. Just buy garbage bags and forgo the "Fellows" price gouging.Fellowes Powershred Waste Bags for Personal Shredders - 100 Bags In fact, although the Fellowes shredder is excellent, if all I knew about Fellowes was based upon their name upon these flimsy and overpriced plastic bags, I'd not purchase anything from them!

I don't see why regular wastebags can't be used, but these do the job okay.

I have the DM17CS and I use a standard plastic kitchen garbage bag. I streach the top of the bag around the interior rim of the unit and there is nothing haning outside the shredder.