Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought this laminator - Scotch Thermal Laminator 2 Roller System (TL901) - for $29.69 from Amazon in February 2015. It's so very definitely NOT worth the crossed out price of $80.49! It wasn't worth that then and it's not worth that now! So firstly, don't be misled by the crossed out price. I really wish Amazon would start policing these misleading crossed out prices! This laminator can currently (date of this review is 2/10/2017) be purchased through a well known online department store for $19.97 (with free shipping or free in store pick-up). You can also buy the newer version - TL902 - through another online department store for only $17.99 (with free in store pick-up). So, the crossed out price here is terribly misleading. Note: I can't 'advertise' these stores here, but go shopping with your browser and you should find it around or under $20 elsewhere as well. After 2 years of use, here's my review of my experience with this laminator: Pros: It still works fine with light use for the past 2 years. Also, I have found it can give nice results if you only want to laminate items up to 3mm thickness (so a photo by itself or with a sticker on back for instance). It will laminate nicely for a 10 minute period, without warping or scorching. So, it's okay for light duty laminating of items of limited thickness. Note: I've found mine needs to be set to the 5mm thickness if I don't want the lamination lifting soon after being laminated. Cons: I bought this laminator to make bookmarks for gifts using varying layers of card and photos, and later to use in my small home-based business for the same. I also planned to do cards with pressed flowers, but my machine gives bad results for any of that. I'm now looking to purchase bookmark sleeves, after 2 years of trying every way I could think of to get good results. This laminator seems incapable of laminating nicely varying layer heights of paper and card or card and pressed flowers (up to 5mm total thickness). The issues happen when I use photo paper together with thin to regular thickness card framing and backing the photos, unless it's all a uniform height (so no framing with the backing card). When using the 3mm setting the lamination lifts pretty quickly leaving ugly results. When using the 5mm setting, it may look great at first, but within a day or less the laminating film starts to lift leaving nasty marks on the card around the photo or all round the pressed flowers etc. Furthermore, I've had to be careful not to laminate for more than 10mins, or it gets too hot and starts scorching. Overall, I'm not pleased with this laminator. It does not meet my needs and I would not recommend it. However, it might be fine for you if all you want to do is laminate the occasional photo.