Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I purchased this for our small office group of two people to replace an aging Fellowes traditional style cross cut shredder that munched mounds of paper quickly and efficiently for the last 5 or 6 years. This shredder was returned to the seller because it is only good in concept. The unit is not at all quiet. Paper loads inside with ease, but the rollers inside the unit often miss the paper stack and shuts off and you have to reopen and reposition the paper to get it to start shredding. The top of the unit has a slot that allows you to feed in a few sheets at a time if you do not have a big stack, but this is virtually useless. The slot you have to shove the paper in is partially covered and the slot is beneath this cover at an odd angle (probably for safety to keep out ties, etc) and it is virtually the exact width of a piece of paper so you constantly have to fumble with the page to get it in. The unit is also slow. It literally shreds one page at a time inside. We used it for 1 week, became frustrated with it, and returned it. Perhaps for a home unit or very light office shredder this would work ok, but I think there are a lot of other products that are a fraction of the cost that will do much better for the small jobs. If you are going to be shredding 100+ documents spend a bit more and go with a regular shredder, you will be much happier. The little bit of time saved with this unit is lost on reopening and closing the unit to get it to work and the fumbling with the top shredder on single sheets.