Fellowes Powershred P-35C

FELLOWES SHREDDER Security and protecting our details have become more important of late, with identity theft and cloning of credit cards etc. Therefore whenever the time comes to purchase a shredder to dispose of any documents or details, there is only one brand I trust, and Fellowes it is. When our old model died of old age a couple of months ago, I immediately went to Argos and purchased this model for £29.99. This is at the lower end of the Fellowes range, yet it adequate for home use. There are better, more expensive models if you need it for business use. Details This shredder can shred ... more

Just bought this from Argos at £25 so seems to be about a mid-price shredder. I wanted something that seemed more solidly built than my last two machines as they have not lasted long, I only shread household paper but the others just don't seem to have lasted more than about a year. This is supposed to take 5 sheets of paper but since most things I want to shred seem to be on "thick" paper I have only put three sheets through at a time. It seems to cope fine with this and is not too noisy. Normally the shredding speed is quite quick. I find if I do overload it then it slows down and struggles ... more