Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

After going through many electric pencil sharpeners in my elementary classroom, I decided to bite the bullet and spend over $100 on this sharpener. I expected it to last several years. It worked very well for about 18 months. Then it just made a loud grinding noise when a pencil was inserted. Because I am somewhat mechanically inclined, I opened up the sharpener to figure out how to fix it. To my dismay, I noticed that the plastic gear that was responsible for turning the cutter wheels was broken. The pencil sharpener isn't fixable. I'm just posting this so that anyone who purchases this pencil sharpener will know that it might not last as long as expected.