Staple Free Stapler, Transparent Smoke

by iSlice

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000G7YR4W
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,622 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 20, 2007

Product Description

Staples are history! In one easy motion, the innovative Staple-Free Stapler punches out tiny strips of paper and uses the strips to stitch together as many as 5 pieces of paper. There are no staples to buy and no bent or broken staples to cut or jab you. Impress your office mates and keep down office supply costs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It works, but just barely., September 14, 2009

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J. Carson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Staple Free Stapler, Transparent Smoke (Office Product)

This is a great little gadget to show off, but the spacing between the slit and the strip are too far apart. It comes apart easily if you flip a page or even drop your set of papers. If you're just holding together a couple of personal notes or whatnot, this would suffice. But I would not trust it with something like work papers or homework.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not secure or sturdy, March 12, 2010

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Benjamin G. Cole "Ben" (Granite City, IL) - See all my reviews
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It's OK at fastening 2 sheets together. Anything else and it's too loose and comes apart too fast. Mine broke after using it less than 20 times.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A jolly little gadget, November 6, 2009

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Archimedes "archimedesz" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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Okay, let's take some of the passion out of this discussion: This little fastening device is neither the answer to all life's problems, nor a useless piece of equipment. It falls somewhere in the middle.

Purpose: It is a little device that cuts a little tongue in a corner of a couple of sheets of paper, and tucks this into a cut on a side, to fasten the sheets together. It works well for a very few sheets of paper, but understandably isn't strong enough to fasten more than three sheets reliably. Staples, of course, can take a lot of punishment and still keep on ticking, unlike this fastening method. Why use such a relatively less-reliable-than-staples method?

(1) Fastened documents can be shredded without hesitation. (Metal staples ruin most shredders.)
(2) Fewer staples in the landfills. (Unless you're the exception, and you think staples improve landfills!)

Environmental Friendliness: A+, once you start using the thing. Unfortunately, see "Packaging" below.

Robustness: Don't know. It looks sturdily built, but only time will tell.

Reliability: I don't expect much from it, but I anticipate that it will work for temporarily holding a couple of sheets together. But one packet of stapled sheets will probably catch on it's neighbor unless you're careful.

Compactness: The gadget is pretty small, a little larger than a golf-ball, which is to say, smaller than a medium-sized stapler.

Packaging: D. The thing came in a big cardboard box, packaged securely enough for a delicate coffee carafe for NASA, and overnight. (This meant that they charge $5:50 for shipping, close to the cost of the stapler itself.) There has to be a better way. I can't think of a stapling emergency that requires this level of shipping frenzy.

If it doesn't hold up to use, I will check back in, but otherwise, assume this is a reasonable investment, with the understanding, of course, that the packaging and shipping is rather expensive and excessive.

Arch, staple-hater.