Why I buy this one ?
- Crosscut shredding slices paper in two directions converting it to small pieces. Virtually the safest method of shredding
- Accepts stapled documents
- Also shreds card stock
- Auto start and stop
- Shred credit card applications, bank statements, cancelled checks, tax forms or any other confidential document that you want to keep away from unscrupulous strangers

What our customer's say!

"Holding my breath, hoping for the best", I just bought this model so I'm holding my breath, hoping for the best.

This is my 4th shredder in about 10 years and I've never been real happy about any of them.

I gave this unit 4 stars out of the box because:
--It was cheap
--It worked
--Pull out basket
--It is quieter than my old shredder
--Unlike my old one this actually cut my cd's into 3 pieces rather than merely making a hundred indentions that was suppose to disable the CD (I never trusted that and ended up breaking them by hand)

I may be over generous but I don't have any reason yet to knock it down any more.

The reasons I didn't give it 5 stars are:
--It feels flimsy.
--It says it'll cut 10 pages but I tried 3 pages at one time and it sounded like it wouldn't handle much more.


"Piece of garbage...mine broke", I really liked this shredder when I first bought it from circuit city. It worked well and smoothly enough, and I had no problems shredding documents, CDs and credit cards (credit cards worked fine in the regular paper slot, so I didn't have that problem like one other reviewer). Also, it had a pretty slick design, and looked really good anywhere in the room.

The first problem was the internal design, where paper pulp would accumulate in the middle of the shred head due to a support bar on the inside. Cleaning this out would cause paper dust and flakes to go all over the place, which would then get vacuumed up (a minor inconvenience).

Then, at some point, the auto sensor went. It would get activated by the first sheet of paper, but then never turn off. Really annoying, but still workable.

Today, the thing just broke, under normal use. This only after ~6 months of mild to moderate use (household junk mail, credit card statements, etc.). The two rotating rods are held in place by plastic brackets! Now, it still shreds on one side, while the other lets paper through. Now the whole thing must get discarded!

My advice, forget aesthetics and buy a fellowes.

"Not worth it", Lasted through approximately five weeks of shredding my daily junk mail before the motor burned out. Granted I get a lot of junk mail, but I expected more from a name brand.

"rather good but not great", Royal makes one of the better cross cut paper shredders in this price category. I have used this paper shredder for about one year now and overall I have been satisfied.

It shreds lots of things rather well--many less expensive models simply cannot shred credit cards, CDs and DVDs. This one can. One reviewer says that a shredded CD makes a mess in the wastepaper can directly below the shredder; but I have not found this to be the case. This shredder by Royal can really do the job; although they do recommend that you limit the total number of credit cards, CDs and the like to no more than five per day. This is a minor disappointment; but again for the price it's still pretty good.

One thing that does disappoint me is how the shredder wastepaper basket seems to fill up rather quickly. I suppose that the shredded piece of paper leave room between them and air takes up the space between the shreds of paper. I guess that would be the case with any shredder. Oh, well. Sigh.

One more caution: if you plan on shredding the phone book in one sitting, forget it. This machine will overheat and automatically turn itself off when it senses that it's in danger of overheating. I recently got rid of several years' worth of tax returns and it took me two days to do it because I had to keep on giving the machine time to cool down before I could continue to shred more paper. Of course, I should have shredded many documents sooner than I did so I myself am partly to blame for that problem.

Overall, for routine everyday use this really is a fine shredder. You'll have to be patient with it when you have large amounts of things to shred; but again in this price category you won't get much better.

Three and one-half stars.


"Fair shredder for the money. ", We bought this shredder for a small office and were mostly pleased with its ability to shred. There is a support bar through the center of the blades that catches shredded paper and needs to be cleaned out every so often. Then one day, it would not shred. I took if apart and cleaned every iota of shredded paper out of the mechanism, but it still would not function. I tried to use the shredder about 2 weeks later and it worked. It seem that one must physically press the container in when setting the cutting mechanism on the top. If you don't manually press it in, the safety switch is not satisfied and it won't run. Emptying this unit is a bit difficult as the paper shreds respond to static electric and inevitably, a few end up on the carpet around the unit.