GBC Paper Shredder, SmarTech Enabled, Auto Feed, 300 Sheet Capacity, Super Cross-Cut, 5-10 Users, Stack-and-Shred 300X (1757576S)

I was a bit hesitant to spend this much for a shredder, even though when I got it the price was almost half the MSRP on the company website. However, after having used it so far for only a few days, I can not believe how easy it is to use, how quiet it is (for a shredder) and how much paper I have been able to finally get shredded, with minimal effort on my part. This was bought for a small office and prior to this, we had 2 small shredders, one of which broke after only a fair amount of use. The other only takes 5 sheets at a time. Considering the years worth of paper that needed to be shredded, there was no way I was going to use the small shredder. We had considered contacting a shredding company, but as we are rather small, no one seemed too keen on taking us on as a customer. I am glad now that we decided to purchase this instead. So far, it has been well worth the price. The shredder is easy to set up. It is easy to use and the self clearing jam function is really reliable. I highly recommend this shredder. The ability to put a stack of paper in and then go about your work is most convenient. Should I have any problems in the future (as I said, we have only been using it for a few days so far) I will be sure to update this review.

Admittedly, I'm a tough customer and I don't give these 5-stars lightly. I spent hours researching shredders for our small 5-person office to share. I looked up videos and reviews on every shredder I could find. THIS is the one. It was twice my budget, but worth more than 2 cheap shredders. I'm now the talk of the office with my shredder hunting prowess. *Extremely quiet. Can have a phone conversation right next to the thing. *No Jams. Some reviews mentioned jams, but I just can't make one happen no matter how hard I try. *Right size. It sits on the floor just fine. Has wheels to move it around or clean behind it. *STACK FEED. To be fair the stack needs to be full sized sheets, fairly uniform. But, I've thrown some haphazard in there and it ate it up just fine. *Top feed OR stack feed option. *Stack feeder locks. You open the top, put in your stack, close it and it starts shredding the stack a few at a time. At any time you can press any 4 numbers on the front to lock the feeder tray. Press the same 4 digit sequence to unlock it, or it unlocks itself when the stack is gone. Perfect for set it and forget it. *You can use a trash bag in it for easy empty. Optional. What could be better? - The price, but I still think it's a fair value for the money. - If it had an automatic trash compactor built in or even better a vacuum tube to the recycle dumpster.

It works really well. Solid. This machine is everything I expected in terms of shed capacity. I think the only drawback is that there is no durable waste bin. Swingline expects you to use a paper bag liner, (5 bags for $29) or what I use, the 30 gallon plastic shredder bags, (100 bags for $58) inside of a flimsy metal wire skeleton bin. Other than that, even though it's expensive, this machine is well worth the price. It's quiet, oil's itself, (small amount of oil included) and will shred staples, and small paperclips like a madman. We've been using this machine non-stop since we got it.

I can't even begin to tell you what a mess this was. It was like a comedy act. Under the product description it says "Simply stack up to 300 sheets for automatic shredding, lock the lid and walk away". It should say "Simply stack up to 300 sheets for automatic shredding, lock the lid and walk away, and the shredder will start to shred, jam, try to shred again, then just sit there". Or it should say "Simply stack up to 300 sheets for automatic shredding, lock the lid and walk away and you will only have any success if you stack those sheets perfectly aligned without staples, paper clips or even a folded page". I was so frustrated with this thing that I ended up ripping apart some of the papers rather than shred them. It was quite humorous, I was a better shredder than the shredder.

We love the feature where you can put a stack in and close the lid and just walk away. The one thing we did learn that if the machine stops shredding check to see if the bin is full....we emptied it and it took right off again. I even have a Supervisor who is not good with most equipment whether it is a fax machine, copier, etc......even she said I LOVE THAT SHREDDER. The security feature is good too....we have confidential documents we shred at times. You just put your documents in close the lid and punch your 4 digit personal code and it locks until the job is completed then it unlocks and is ready for the next person. We got a great price through Amazon compared to other vendors. With our prior shredder it lasted a long time but it was consistently getting jammed and you could only feed 2 to 3 sheets at a time & had to oil it all the time and if you over oiled it would cause it to jam also. With this machine you put your oil in and it releases it as needed & you can put up to 500 sheets in area under the lid or if you just have a couple sheets you can feed them through the top slot....Overall a GREAT machine. The only thing that I might not agree with is that bin holds 21 gallons of shredded paper.....I think it is less than that but its no problem for us we just change out the bag go on....no big deal. I would buy it again knowing that.

Pros: Quite, fast, reliable, can pile up papers until your ready to shred Cons: Very large, cannot auto-shred heavy weight paper or junk mail, cannot auto shred small sheets of paper, cannot fold paper in half, holds more like 300 sheets not 500 sheets of paper. Note: All junk mail or small items have to be individually dropped into the top of the machine for shredding. Additional information: Make sure you purchase Swingline shredder oil as this product doesn't come with it and the machine will not run without it. The 30-60 gallon Swingline shredder begs are too thin. I have just started using regular 55-60 gallon trash bags that tie close (no draw-strings).

This has been a great shredder for our business so far. It is so convenient to leave a big stack of documents in the auto-feed and just walk away! With smaller shredders you always have a "cool-down" time you have to wait after shredding a lot of papers, but not with this one. It shreds non-stop until the basket is full. Digital display shows errors, oil refill needs, etc.

This unit overheats constantly, does not grab the paper properly and is always jamming. Good concept but not what I was expecting. It says 300 pages in the loader.... no! Not even 100. and if they are not separated then it just jams. A shredder described like this one should be able to take at least 3 sheets stapled together but not this one.

Muy buen equipo

This thing is incomparable. we are currently shredding over 40 000 files and it performs flawlessly: no cool down needed, can shred continuously. very quiet ! can insert 300 sheets and walk away, can even be locked with a code if they are sensitive. shredded paper capacity is ok, wouldn't mind a bigger one, but they cost ++ more money! Would highly recommend.

pour le bureau

Works excellently.

Not as durable as I would have thought.