Fellowes Powershred 225i Strip-Cut Shredder

This is a commercial grade strip shredder, that is built like a tank and cost as much too! But you get what you pay for! After 5 years of daily use, it has yet to jam or malfunction! A quality product well worth the asking price! :)

I bought the shredder sight unseen so I was a little nervous. Turns out it's perfect for my needs. The descriptions were all accurate. It's very quiet, has a wide feed window, can take a good amount of paper at one time, and is very fast. Shredding paper is now my new favorite part of my job. It's very satisfying.

After suffering through the misery of trying to make an older Fellowes PS-79Ci shredder that was not properly cared for do the work this office needed one piece of paper at a time, and finding that it was a lost cause, we decided to spend a little more money and get one that sounded like it would come closer to meeting our needs. This machine is a work horse. We are able to actually put in 15+ sheets of paper at a time and it eats them right up. Because it only shreds in straight pieces, the bin fills rather quickly, but I've found that pushing the paper down into the bin gives me an opportunity to fill it pretty full before having to change bags. Dust is minimal. And I'm going to be really careful with this machine to oil it regularly so that it doesn't have the problems the old one did. We are very pleased with this machine.

Review after 1 week: This shredder is much nicer than the store brand we had prior. The "blades" are more akin to an industrial type shredder where they are thick metal wheels rather than flimsy thin blades. The shredder is very quiet which is nice as it resides in a shared office area and the old shredder disrupted phone calls, thought process and conversations when running. Having a 16 gallon waste basket, although it is made of cardboard, is very nice aswell. Means less times it has to be cleaned out which equals less mess. The shredder was sold by Amazon and shipped by Amazon. It was packaged very robustly for an almost 80lbs machine. Amazon offered a price that was not matchable by any other vendor. It shipped with a roll of 10? bags which are optional to use. Be sure to remove the shipping bolts before use! We will be using Canola oil on a piece of paper to oil ours per an investigation into the Fellowes brand lubricant's MSDS sheet. I plan on updating this review as the years go on. If no edits are made please alert me!

Great shredder

Our law office purchased this shredder about one year ago after our previous $100 shredder bit the dust after just one month. This one has been a powerhouse, it has a sleep mode and starts up when paper is inserted between the blades. We've never had problems with it.

i love this shredder! so powerful and fast and does not jam! With my old shredder, it would take me an hour to shred a stack of papers, with this bad boy, it took me about 7 minutes :)

The first one I ordered came DOA - no power when I plugged it in. From the packing, this item had been shipped to someone else before. Amazon was very efficient about the return, and shipped a "new, improved model" by next day shipping. It really was brand new, and it had power, but when I plugged it in it ran briefly with no paper, then jammed. Turns out, it ate a large rubber gasket that sat inside the housing, completely jamming the blades. The gasket had come loose, despite the shipping screws. Amazon wouldn't ship a third one, even if I had wanted it. So, I ordered the SB-80, and it has been working fine since it arrived. Order this item only if you like to gamble, and shine a flashlight in the opening before you plug it in, to be sure that gasket isn't loose.

works as promised