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Cross-cut shred size: turns paper into small confetti-like pieces measuring 3/16 by 1-27/32 inches (5 by 47 mm); meets security level P-3 standards
Sheet capacity: shreds up to 8 sheets of 20-pound bond paper at a time (no need to remove staples or small paper clips); also destroys credit cards (one at a time)
Run time and thermal protection: 3 minutes on / 30 minutes off; if shredder runs continuously beyond the max run time, it will automatically shut off to protect the motor from overheating
User-friendly design: 3-mode control switch (auto, off, reverse); overheat LED indicator; 8.7-inch paper-entry width; easy-to-empty 4.1-gallon bin with see-through window
Support and warranty: please refer to user manual, troubleshooting guide, and instructional video before use; the user guide on this detail page covers issues related to the shredder turning on
Quality tested: as part of AmazonBasics quality inspections, we test every shredder before shipping it, which means you may see some paper shreds from the testing

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AmazonBasics Paper Shredders

AmazonBasics cross-cut paper shredder with 8-sheet capacity

AmazonBasics Paper and Credit-Card Shredder for Home or Office

Cross-Cut Shredder

More secure than a strip-cut shredder, this AmazonBasics cross-cut paper shredder slices through documents diagonally in both directions, turning sheets of paper into small paper particles. It can accommodate multi-page documents, and there’s no need to remove staples or small paper clips first.

Destroys Confidential Info

Perfect for home or office, the cross-cut shredder works well for destroying pay stubs, bills, receipts, bank statements, medical records, and other private documents or personal data.

Helps Protect Identity

Shredding documents has become an important part of identity protection. The AmazonBasics shredder helps reduce the chance of falling victim to the havoc and hassle of identity theft.

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Shreds multi-page documents (no need to remove staples)
Destroys credit cards and CDs/DVDs (select models)
Auto start
Reverse function to help clear or prevent paper jams
Thermal protection with auto shut-off
Easy-to-empty bin

Shreds More Than Just Paper

There’s no need to remove staples or small paper clips from documents, and the shredder not only shreds paper, but it also eats through CDs*, DVDs*, and credit cards, rendering them useless for ultimate peace of mind.

*select shredder models

Easy Start

In Auto (on) mode, shredding begins once the machine detects something to be shredded, and then it stops automatically when shredding is complete. Shredded paper drops conveniently down into the collection bin below.

Reverse Function

The Reverse function makes it possible to retrieve un-shredded or partially shredded documents, plus helps prevent paper from getting stuck, making it easier to avoid frustrating paper jams.

Thermal Protection with Auto Shut-Off

The shredder will automatically shut off to protect the motor if it runs continuously beyond its maximum run time and begins to over-heat.


	8-Sheet Strip-Cut Paper Shredder	8-Sheet Cross-Cut Paper Shredder	8-Sheet Micro-Cut Paper Shredder
Shred Type	Strip cut	Cross cut	Micro cut
Shred Size	1/4-inch wide	3/16 by 1-27/32 inches (5 by 47 mm)	5/32 by 15/32 inch (4 by 12 mm)
Security Level	P-2	P-3	P-4
Ideal for	Fast, basic shredding and light use; geared towards less sensitive information	More secure than strip-cut shredders; faster than micro-cut shredders; small enough shreds to satisfy compliance requirements for laws like HIPAA and FACTA	Higher level security: ideal for shredding sensitive information like personal identifiable information (PII)
DVD/CD/Credit Card	✓	Credit cards only	✓
Continuous Run Time	2 minutes	3 minutes	5 minutes
Cool Down Time	15 minutes	30 minutes	30 minutes
Sheet Capacity (20-pound paper)	8 sheets	8 sheets	8 sheets
Bin Capacity	3.2 gallons	4.1 gallons	4 gallons
Noise Level (decibels)	70 dB		68 dB

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Color	Black	White	Black	Light Amber	black	—
Item Dimensions	12.80 x 7.30 x 15.90 inches	9.21 x 6.02 x 0.75 inches	7.13 x 11.81 x 16.10 inches	1.50 x 3.50 x 8.00 inches	14.10 x 11.80 x 7.08 inches	12.76 x 7.32 x 15.94 inches
Item Weight	8.30 lbs	5.10 ounces	11.68 lbs	0.57 lbs	—	9.70 lbs

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Size:8 Sheet | Style:Shredder

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Size:8 Sheet | Style:Shredder

Product Dimensions

12.8 x 7.3 x 15.9 inches

Item Weight

8.3 pounds

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B00YFTHJ9C

Item model number

AU860XA

Customer Reviews

70,327 ratings

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Date First Available

October 1, 2015

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Mason W

Wicked Shredder!

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2018

Size: 8 SheetStyle: ShredderVerified Purchase

I purchased this bad boy for my wife’s home office. Let me start off by saying this thing shreds harder than Andy Brinker from the 1998 classic film Brink. For those of you who don’t know, this 99 min film introduced some of the most unique roller blade shredding ever witnessed. Purchase this and you can be shredding like Andy in no time!

Update** after using the the shredder my wife has been walking around the house being very confrontational. She now says things like “Bruh, do you even shred!?” For this reason I have to deduct one star.

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Efficient but could benefit crime some improvements

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2019

Size: 12 SheetStyle: ShredderVine Customer Review of Free Product( What's this? )

This is a quite nice machine. Very basic yet built tough to do the job. The first job I had for this shredder was a ten inches pile of documents and several closed documents, some quite thick ones. I even had my kids help me with it, for the very thick ones I opened as I was afraid of jamming the machine. The machine performed quite well which generated 9 full buckets of shredded paper. Many of the documents where stapled at the top corner and the shredder chewed right through it without any issues. I did get the machine jammed with a set of 9 sheets so I was a bit surprised as the maximum recommended is 12. They were packed very tight so that is why I think it jammed the machine.
THE GOOD STUFF:
Heavy duty feel to the build of the machine
Basic features to get the job done - Auto On with a sensor, reverse to remove jams, safety button which only allows the teeth to rotate when the top is fully attached to the bucket (great feature as the teeth are EXTREMELY sharp which is a good thing
Compact Size and discreet
THE NOT SO GREAT STUFF:
It produces a lot more dust than our previous unit
Its a bit noisy, so if you are using in an office its best to put it on an more isolated area than in your desk
The shredded material is quite wide and long (about ¼ inch by 1 and ¼). It would be nice if they were chopped once more to less than half an inch
THE BAD STUFF
THought the unit with the motor is well built, the bucket is quite flimsy and due to the safety mechanism it will be hard to retrofit it to another bucket without bypassing the safety click (and that would be dangerous as the unit could turn on while upside down and that would be VERY VERY dangerous.

Overall I would definitely recommend this simple shredder for the home office use. If there is lot of demand and several people on constant of use like in an small office, this might be OK but it would be on the edge. I used for 30 minutes basically only stopping to dump out the material and it got a bit worm but delivered only with a small jam. Please let me know if this helps you or if you need any additional pics or other info. Cheers,

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Awesome shredder; Better than expected.

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2019

Size: 12 SheetStyle: ShredderVerified Purchase

PROS: I want to cover first the high-quality and well-built aspects of this paper shredder. I’ve seen other reviews I personally think the garbage can (bottom portion/ container) is well-built. It had zero problem shipping to me in one piece. I’ve tested and this can easily shred 15 to 16 pieces of normal copy paper and probably 12 of the thicker resume paper. Personally I use this to shred cardboard. (with all the boxes that I get from Amazon and/or for business it’s a great for shredding cardboard) and compost it afterwards. If you see in the video and photo attached the shredder has no problem going through very thick cardboard whatsoever. Think “A hot knife through butter”. I also want to say that the machine is extremely quiet in comparison to other shredders a have owned or currently own. I’ve seen on other reviews people said it was loud. It obviously isn’t going to be silent. Even in comparison to the Amazon basics 8 sheet shredder, it’s about half as quiet as that. That link is below if you don’t need something this heavy-duty as the 12 sheet.

Link to the AmazonBasics 8-Sheet Strip-Cut Paper, CD and Credit Card Home Office Shredder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DN9NX0I/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_BlQDDbTFVANXG

CONS: My two issues with this shredder. One the bottom canister or garbage can cannot be replaced because of the safety mechanism that is built into the shredder. I realize it’s put there for safety but it’s kind of a pain if it ever cracks or breaks. Two is the opening only measures about 8.75-9 inches. If a larger amount of paper or cardboard is loaded in and isn't square to the opening it can jam. That’s easily resolved with the reverse button on the top of the shredder. I would link to see this same shredder with a 12 inch opening.

Bottoms line is I would buy again or recommend to a friend.

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slee

Defective unit. No power after a few months of rare, light use.

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2018

Size: 8 SheetStyle: ShredderVerified Purchase

I have gone through two of these now. The first one seemed decent and I blame myself for overworking it one day. The second one, however, I barely used and was extremely careful in how many documents I put in at once. This one died after a few months with no warning. It is plugged into a surge protector with other items that still work so it was not a power fluctuation. It was just dead one day with no power or sign of life at all. I am annoyed because it was clearly a defective unit but I am outside any return window.

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Lon J. Seidman

Works as advertised, shreds stacks of paper 15 sheets at a time plus CDs and credit cards

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2017

Size: 15 SheetStyle: ShredderVine Customer Review of Free Product( What's this? )

This shredder works as advertised. In the attached video you can see it shredding a stack of 15 pages of paper, a CD, and a credit card. All seemed to work without incident. As you can see in the video it creates small cross shredded strips that will make reassembly of the original document more difficult. Stacks of documents will compress into thick strips that require some effort to separate.

I would like to see paper bags or something to go in the wastebin as I would like to send the shredded material out to recycling without the having to dump it into another bag later.

Currently the device has a bit of an oily / burnt smell but I have a feeling that it's lubricant from the factory. I expect that to dissipate and will report back if it does not. I will also report back on any long term issues I have with it.

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Octavio

Trituradora básica para pequeña oficina

Reviewed in Mexico on February 17, 2018

Size: 6 SheetStyle: ShredderVerified Purchase

La trituradora funciona como se esperaba, y tal como se menciona en la publicación y en las reseñas que vimos en diferentes páginas de internet. La usamos para una pequeña oficina y abastece muy bien ya que se tritura de a poco cada día, pero para grandes volúmenes se quedaría corta. Hasta el momento no hemos llegado a saturar la capacidad de los 2 minutos de operación, y alimentándola de 5 hojas por vez hemos medido que se pueden triturar alrededor de 30 a 35 páginas por minuto. la capacidad máxima es de 6 hojas, pero notamos que se forza mucho más y tritura mas lento, por lo que optamos por dejarlo en 5 hojas.

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Reviewer 08X4

Good quality, no complaints after few months' use

Reviewed in Canada on May 27, 2018

Size: 8 SheetStyle: ShredderVerified Purchase

{OVERHEATING}
I have used this several times now, feeding in 1 piece of plastic/ thick paper at a time, or up to 4 pieces of regular paper together, and have never experienced any overheating. It was also able to shred a rectangular piece of thin plastic with no problems (cut-out of confidential details from online shopping delivery bag) I have not tried feeding in 8 sheets at once or more than one thick sheet at once and probably will not attempt this - I do not believe in challenging my tools unnecessarily.

{SETTINGS}
It comes in two pieces, the bin (bottom) and the shredding component (top). You put them together and plug it in, there's a reverse (REV), auto (AUTO) and off (OFF) setting. The auto setting will start running as it senses sheets being fed in, if you have uneven thickness or jagged edge materials you have to fold a crisp edge and feed that end in or it will not be able to detect the presence of the item.

{LINING THE BIN}
I have used this with a plastic grocery store bag to line the bin with no problems. The blades do not reach the circumference of the bin so there is no snagging issues. The bin is taller than most grocery store bags so there will be empty space at the bottom.

In my experience some shredders can get pieces of paper stuck at the two farthest ends of the feed intake, I do not know if this machine has that issue but looking at the design I suspect it would, perhaps this is why so many people complain of it overheating (paper stuck in blades on either end, causing more resistance for the motor to overcome). Because of this, I avoid feeding a full 8.5 inch edge into this machine, instead I fold all 8.5 inch and greater edges in half or rip the item in half and feed the smaller halves.

48 people found this helpful

Op2Mistyk

Three excellent but not five star perfect

Reviewed in Canada on June 27, 2017

Size: 6 SheetStyle: ShredderVerified Purchase

I ordered this because it is basically the same size and functionality of one that we needed to replace.
I'm not disappointed - but there are some PROS and CONS.

PROS
- It is fairly light and quieter than our old shredder. (but the quietness may be attributed to the motor since the motor in our old shredder slowly came grinding to a halt)
- The AmazonBasic shredder is priced well.
CONS
- Our old shredder had a small window in the basket so that you didn't have to lift up the motor to see how full it was.The basket on the AmazonBasic is well, simply basic.
- I'm not so sure I would want to force up to 6 sheets into this thing - Keeping at two sheets is probably going to be the difference between using this thing for awhile and listening to the motor grind to a halt.
- Use scissors for credit cards

46 people found this helpful

soukhbir sander

Ordered brand new but received used

Reviewed in Canada on January 7, 2020

Size: 12 SheetStyle: ShredderVerified Purchase

Pay for brand new product but received used…very disappointed :(
Noticed jammed paper in the blade when run the machine noticed that product have been used before shipped to me.

23 people found this helpful

Ellie

A really great product

Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2018

Size: 8 SheetStyle: ShredderVerified Purchase

Very good home shredder. It can take up to 8 sheets, but I usually just go with 6. It will stop working if something gets stuck, and usually you can unplug it and just remove the extra paper that got it stuck and continue. Just a little note though, it stucks everytime it tries to shred something with glue on it (like stickers), so you might want to remove those and tear them by hand (no problem with envelopes though).

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