Fellowes P70CM Crosscut Paper Shredder with Mesh Basket

This powerful light duty machine reduces your documents to 5/32 x 1-7/8" confetti cut pieces. Accepts up to 7 sheets at a time to make quick work of your documents. The generous 4.5 gallon mesh basket lets you easily see when it is full.

Be safe with your home or business documents when you use the Fellows P70CM shredder. This powerful light duty machine reduces your documents to 5/32-by-1-7/8-inch confetti cut pieces. It has a 9-inch paper entry with auto-start functionality. It accepts up to seven sheets at a time to make quick work of your documents. The generous 4.5-gallon mesh basket lets you easily see when it is full. Nearly 10 million Americans fell victim to identity theft last year. The best way to protect yourself is to shred all personal information before you throw it away.

Fellowes warrants the cutting cylinders of the machine to be free from defects in material and workmanship for three years from the date of purchase by the original consumer. Fellowes warrants all other parts of the machine to be free of defects in material and workmanship for one year from the date of purchase by the original consumer.

What's in the Box
Fellowes P70CM paper shredder, AC power cord, black wire mesh basket, and printed operating instructions

Customer Reviews:

Don't waste your money!
We purchased this shredder a few months ago for use around the house. With all those unsolicited credit card offers you can never be too careful about protecting yourself from identity theft. At first it worked like a charm, but then it suddenly started to jam up for no reason. We take good care of our electronic stuff so we were very surprised when the shredder stodecided to stop working. Then last week I added 2 sheets of paper and the shredder broke. Useless!!!
--2006-11-14

Don't even thing about buying this ;)
This is our third shredder. I should say, it was our third shredder. The previous two still work but they are both strip cut and crosscut is what we want now. This shredder worked great, but I had to babysit it all the time. Don't give it more than two sheets at a time and under no circumstances should I feed it an unopened credit card offer envelope. What do you call this shredder with a credit card offer about to be shredded? A big jam :) Needless to say, this thing has given up ghost and it is time for another one. I did not read the opinions here before I bought mine, shame on me, but please don't make the same mistake we did -> save your money and move on to another product.
--2006-11-12

Fellow Brand Shredders
I purchased a Fellowes Shredder and felt it shredding money right out of my wallet. If you ever disasmbled a Fellow shredder, you would come to see that they use cheap plastic parts where sturdy mechanical parts made of metal are needed, this is why most of their products fail and their customer service is as good as their cheap parts. I took mine apart as it was useless and time consuming to deal with returns and their customer service.

There are many other brands of shredders out there and Fellowes is the worst, so save your money and buy another brand. Fellows is sure no fellow!
--2006-07-07

great product
this shredder is an animal! it shreds multiple papers at once, has a nice reverse function, and with the mesh basket you can "see" how much room you have left.
--2006-03-23

Don't buy this shredder
If I'd read the reviews here for Fellowes shredders before buying one, I would have stayed well clear. As it was, I needed a cross-cutter saw this one (P70CM) on sale and bought it. It jammed on day 1. It has jammed numerous times since. Although the capacity states 7 pages, you're better off shredding just a couple of pages at a time, but be warned that they recommend the unit can only operate for 2min at a time due to shoddy engineering. 6 months after purchase, a document caused it to jam resulting in the motor shearing the teeth off the internal nylon gears (for an extra 10-cents these could have been metal...). The other point is the wire basket which at first looks stylish, but oozes paper dust, and emptying is a struggle as the shredder jams into it - this requires some effort to dislodge which causes you exert and bend the metal basket even more etc.etc. This shredder has now joined its own output. The 1-star is for the 6 months of limited use I got out of it.
--2006-01-08

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