Customer Reviews

3 in1 Shredder

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I was interested in the CD and credit card shredder capabilities. It feels like breaking the unit when cranking to destroy CDs. The unit feels weak and the CD breaks into only 3 pieces, which is not good since it may be reconstructed. The credit card slot breaks into only 4 pieces. What is even more stupid is that it breaks horizontally so that your CC number is still left on one piece, your signature, date of expiration, name, verification number, and the magnetic strip are all intact, being shred horizontally, and remain on one piece. I wouldn't trust my credit card or CD or DVD confidentiality with this shredder. Identity thieves will be able to retrieve your discarded information with this. For shredding CD and DVD, there is a new product coming out, the Disc Eraser, which is better than CD shredders and other devices made for destroying CD and DVD. Check it out at DiscEraser.com

I don't understand people fuming about this product. It was all of what? 19 bucks? Plastic. Manual. What did they expect?

Yes, it's slow.

Yes, it only does 1 page at a time but decently so.

I found it did okay on an old credit card, too. Yes, it only sliced it into lengthways pieces. Again, for the price, and manual, what are people expecting? It does exactly what it is billed as doing.

My feelings are it's a relief to not constantly be dealing with my electric one, which shreds crisscross, but constantly gets gummed up, overheats, and stops. Incessantly.

One day, I had a very large old pile to shred, and the best IT would do was 5 at a time, and then overheat. And it's neither that old, nor that used.

The way I look at it, with the credit card, was although I had to go at it again, with the electric crosscutting one, or scissors, it was that much less to do.

The electric one, despite its claim, cannot handle a solid credit card. I have had to cut them up manually and feed it bits and pieces is the past, risking cutting my fingers and hand with scissors. At least this way, the manual one does the "scissor" cutting for me, saving my hands!

I am exceedingly pleased with this product. Granted it's for small, minimal, home use. Not a home office, not an office, not major heavy duty, not industrial.

It is what it is, and as such, it is very good.

purchased this shredder to get rid of junkmail - works well for 1 to 2 peices of paper and doesnt use electricity - one less thing to unplug.

This does a fair job but with CDs you'll need to run the breaks through again. Aldo this does good for beginning the cutting credit cards or plastic membership cards but to help I break the pieces up with Shredder scissors. paper is excellent but you must do one sheet at a time.

I'd say it's good for light mail use and things you do at home but needs improvements.

For what it is, the hand-crank shredder works fine. Of course, it is only of small jobs that are not too thick but it turns smoothly.

I've had this product about half a year and it's broken already. Plastic parts inside have broken into little pieces making it useless. We rarely used it and never for anything but paper. And that it could only handle one piece at a time. I think I'll compost whatever I used to want to shred instead!

I owned this shredder for a year. I really gave it a chance as I make every effort to be "green" and use as little electricity as possible. Unfortunately, I have to give up on this product. The product works well for small papers, such as receipts, and it's safe to use. Because it's not electric-powered, the user controls the shredding which means it's a safe way for kids to participate in shredding paper. However, even shredding just receipts means that this shredder eventually clogs. I don't know if it's the fact that the shredder is not continually churning, but I was sure to crank the paper until I'd seen it go all the way through.

Another reason why I'm choosing an electric shredder is because the ones that I have can fit over a garbage can. With this shredder, they probably could have found a way to make an extendable arm that allows you to place the shredder over a garbage can and forgo the detachable container. The problem with the clogging appeared to be that after several sheets of paper, they might start backing up into the shredding mechanism and clog it. If you have any reasonable amount of shredding to do, you'll get your exercise between the cranking motion and the continual dumping of the shredder materials. I've had to go so far as to unscrew the shredding mechanism twice in the year I've owned it in order to fully clean out whatever got sucked into the mechanism. It's just not worth the hassle. I'd still be receptive to the use of a manual shredder if one were to come out that fits over a garbage can and doesn't clog as badly as this one does.

This product is good. Does the job described, however when cranking it I noticed it moved around quite a bit. I had to find a way to keep it from moving. Ended up buying an electric version.. was too much cranking and too much trouble to keep it steady. If shredding is minimal, it would be worth the money.

I'm using this to shred piles of recycled color paper for making handmade paper and I love it...It's easy to use, portable, quiet and I like the fact that it's "green" (i.e. none-electric). It also does great with credit cards (haven't tried the CDs yet).

I ordered this to shred credit cards. Well the only way that it would do that is if I pushed the card down and turned the handle. Needless to say I am extrememly displeased with this purchase. Fortunaley it was purchased for about $6.00 so it's hiding in a draw. Maybe one day I will have a reason to use it.