Great Cross Cut Shredder Hunt

nickinoo

quoia wrote:

Remember that is PLUS VAT so actually £15.26

As Andy would say on Little Britain "yeah, I know".

squeaky

nickinoo wrote:

I'm afraid you have to have a Makro card (it's a trade card supposedly only for business users but easy to get one if you have a friend with their own business or you work for the right type of company). They don't do mail order.

OK thanks.

lipidicman

timread wrote:

I've been looking for a reasonably priced cross cut shredder for a month or two now. Last week I checked out some in Rymans and they all had quoted figures for On/Off times e.g. 2 mins On, 20 mins Off. The more expensive ones had longer on times and shorter off times e.g. 2 on/5 off

I've never seen these figures quoted before (unless I missed something in this thread!) and it concerned me that the cheaper ones will burn out if you run them for too long without cooling periods. Has anyone else bought a cross cut shredder that quoted these times, and what's the best price/performance cross cut shredder based on On/Off times?

This is exactly why I can pick up a great shredder for under £10 whilst you office one probably set the company back around £200-500. Shred little and often - this is the most secure way as well!

Allexie

corriefan wrote:

I just bought the Woolworths cross cut shredder today for £14.99 (It's marked as half price down from £29.99)

Details:
5 sheet shredding at a time
shreds credit cards
cuts into 4mm x 38mm pieces, security level 3
228mm (9") wide slot
14 litre bin, nice slimline design with a window to see when full

pick one up this morning from woolies stockport they were just being put on
shelf

Just been to Woolworths - Leeds City Centre and the shredder is still £29.99 (took one to the till to check)

chillerman

I also saw one in woolies in Oxford and Abingdon marked up at £29.99. Took it to check-out, price came up at normal price. I said that I thought that they were 1/2 price and was infomed that they wre reduced between mid feb to mid march. So people are just lucky I guess that some are still showing up on tills at special price

lipidicman

Have you guys not tried Asda - their shredder is great (make sure you get the cross cut) - Sorry if you have tried and cant get one

chillerman

lipidicman wrote:

Have you guys not tried Asda - their shredder is great (make sure you get the cross cut) - Sorry if you have tried and cant get one

Only one round Oxford and they only had strip cut, even though they told me otherwise.

pingu

chillerman wrote:

I also saw one in woolies in Oxford and Abingdon marked up at £29.99. Took it to check-out, price came up at normal price. I said that I thought that they were 1/2 price and was infomed that they wre reduced between mid feb to mid march. So people are just lucky I guess that some are still showing up on tills at special price

it was that time when i bought it

Fishwibbler

Just had to take our X Cut shredder back to $taple$.
My wife picked it up a couple of weeks ago for £20 and we were having a tidy up to get all the sensitive documents ready. We only managed to run a few sheets through this weekend before the shredder jammed - said it would take up to 5 sheets at a time and we were doing singles. And in short bursts. After about 8 - 10 individual sheets the thing would jam. Unjam it and start again. Same thing. Got a bit tired of doing that so cleaned it up and took it back.
So, back in the market for a decent cross cut shredder that doesn't jam when fed individual sheets! At least we didn't have to wait for the shredder to cool down at all (it did that whilst I freed the mechanism!).

The worst bit was being asked by the sales oik if we'd read the instructions. As it goes, a qualified teacher and systems engineer HAD read the instructions and were NOT stressing the poor thing! I hope others have had more luck with theirs [sigh]

lipidicman

Had this with a staples shredder a while back - If you can find the Asda one then I can report it has been jam free for a few weeks now (single sheets, maybe ten to a batch) and Mr Picky here has been pretty happy with it!