Customer Reviews

Fellowes P-500 5-Sheet Strip-Cut Automatic Start/Stop Paper Shredder with Basket (Charcoal)

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Lousy product. Consistently jams and is impossible to clear out. Tried disassembling but is very difficult. Would not recommend.

Please don't spend your money here. It consistently jams after only a couple of sheets. With all the time I spent trying to unjam it, I'd have been quicker to use a pair of scissors to cut the paper into strips! :(

I shred a lot of paper and this shredder is just the worst. It only handles 5 pages of regular stock paper and that only works (very slowly) if you put them in at an exact right angle. If even one piece of paper gets caught at an angle the whole system freezes up and you have to reverse or rip and cut out pieces of stray paper. It's true that staples go right through the shredder without a problem, but it's the consistent jamming that really made me nuts. Plus, the shredder sits precariously on top of the basket, so if you don't align it just right on top of the basket, it falls in - its heavy. Really search around for a good shredder and make sure it shreds at least ten sheets of paper at a time. That's a lot of time on your hands and a good shredder is well worth the cost.