Customer Reviews

Fellowes S70C-2 Confetti-Cut Shredder with Basket

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I bought this shredder to shred receipts and other paper. Receipts are too thin to depress the "auto-on" sensor. There is no always on option. I've returned this item.

I bought this shredder looking for a good cross-cut shredder. It looked great because of size and conveniece and security for cross-shredding. It would only take two pages without sounding a bit stressed. On day three, it died. I returned it, thinking......."yeah, there is an occassional problem child." I exchanged it for another. The new one started good, fast and quiet. It could easily do four pages at a time. However, I prefer to do one to two pages as not to stress the motor on these things. "Houston, we have a problem." On day five, the motor blew out. I returned it, bought a Royal Orca3500, which has only managed to last two months. Is there any shred (ar ar) of evidence out there of a good quality shredder?

I have had the shredder for about a month now and have filled the bin several times. On a few occasions the unit has "overheated" (it just stops) and after a few minutes starts again - and those times have been when I was shredding a lot of paper. The cross-cutting works very well and does a much better job than a previous competitor's unit that I used (that broke).

If you want slightly better security on your shredding and don't mind paying a little extra for it, this is a very good unit to consider.

This shredder came with a mechanical sensor rather than an electronic sensor. Therefore, you may have problem in turning the shredder on if the paper is too thin. The designer should have either use an electronic sensor or put in a "Always" on switch. This is a poor design.

This shredder is a fine little workhorse.... When you stick a paper into the slot it turns itself on (not especially noisy), chews up the paper, and turns itself off. If you accidentally try to feed too many sheets into it is will slow down, but if it totally jams, you just flick the switch on top and it goes into reverse and disgorges the remaining papers. The plastic 'wastebasket' has a safety rib which fits into a safety slot in the shredder... my first few puzzled moments were resolved when I noticed this and made sure the top was properly seated (I had it reversed!) It would be nice if the wastebasket were taller (I grind up a lot of paper each day!) but I just empty it into a bin in my office as the basket fills up. This shredder seems to have no problem with envelopes (the kind with the see-through window). My wife is quite amused that I ask her if she has anything from her (home-based) business that needs to be shredded. I confess: it is fun shredding paper ;-)

This item does an excellent job of thoroughly shredding paper. Imbedded staples are not a problem, and it's fast. The noise level is acceptable. It has an extra long cord, which is nice. The matching basket has four internal notches to hold the shredder in place. The shredder was a lot heavier than I expected; it clearly has a lot of heavy duty parts. The only characteristic that surprised me is that the manufacturer really means it when it says "intermittant duty." I had a large stack of documents waiting to be shredded, and ended up triggering the thermal time out switch. But after the shredder cooled down everything was fine, and now that my backlog is compost the S60C handles my regular day-to-day shredding in stride. I wish that I had purchased a paper shredder of this quality from the start.

This is a great shredder for home use, and has its own waste-basket. It shreds fairly quickly, and is inexpensive for its quality. The machine itself looks very stylish, with a contemporary, yet somewhat futuristic in a way, look that will blend right in with many themes and colors. This is a great shredder that crosscuts sheets incredibly well. If you have anything you never want anyone to be able to see or reconstruct, this is the machine for you!

Great for the person concerned about personal security. Had a smaller shredder before and this is definitely worth the extra money. It says it handles up to seven sheets at once, but does start to bog down with five. I don't consider this a fault because the previous unit I owned claimed it could handle three sheets, but was struggling every time I attempted two! Doesn't overheat and shutdown like the cheaper 20-40 dollar shredders that are available.

I purchased mine in July 2004. It was never that great. It died January 2005.

Problems:

- Doesn't really produce "confetti." You just get short strips. Still reasonably secure.

- The little gizmo that is suppose to start and stop the machine when you feed paper constantly sticks, so the machine needs to be turned on and off manually. (I can do that, it's just not as advertised.)

- Doesn't handle more than 3 pages very well.

- Tends to be sluggish. In 6 months it went through more oil my granddad's Studebaker.

- Lasted only about 6 months with modest use. I don't shred more than 15 full pages a day on average.

I'll avoid Fellowes when I buy the next one.

I have had my PS80C-2 for a little over 2 years. My cutterhead supposedly had a 20 year warranty. I regularly (every shredding session) oil the cutters with canola oil (recommended in the owner's manual) and my useage is well below the claimed duty rating. Recently, the unit began to jam more frequently and the shreds started exiting as a single mass rather than as loose shreds. I called customer support and they had me inspect the bottom of the cutterhead for broken or missing plastic fingers. Several were missing. Even though these fingers are an integral part of the cutterhead and the cutter head won't function without them, Fellowes claims that they are not part of the cutterhead and that they are not covered by warranty. Still worse, they are not an available part so my only recourse (according to Fellowes) is to buy a new shredder! Fellowes self-serving definition as to what is part of the "cutterhead" and what is not is at best dishonest. Don't buy a Fellowes shredder for the warranty as they will define themselves out of honoring it. I did get a couple of years of use out of it though. So, if you can get a reconditioned unit really inexpensively, it might be worth a shot as a disposable product.