Fellowes Powershred PS80C-2 Shredder
- Shred Size: 0.16 x 0.8 in.
- Cut Style: Cross-Cut Confetti-Cut
- Throat Size: 9 in.
- Max Sheet Capacity: 8
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What a piece of junk!
We've had a Fellowes PS80C-2 for a couple of years and hardly used it. About a month ago, I finally decided to shred some documents from a deceased relative, and at first, the shredder worked okay. I won't accept anywhere near the advertised 10-page max, and as mentioned in other reviews, the paper... Read full review »
Terrible Shredder
The PS80C-2 is the only shredder I have used thus far, but I can say that it must be among the worst available. This shredder is messy, temperamental, and frustrating. Every third time I use it, it jams. You can only shred two or three pages at a time, and even then it will manage to jam. The paper... Read full review »
worth every penny
This shredder rocks. it is bombproof in its mechanisms and i can't imagine being able to jam it. just shove in the whole envelope of junk mail and watch it disappear.
the confetti cut is the only way to go. why shred something that would take someone a few hours to reconstruct? with...
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Cutting to the Chase About the Fellowes PS80C-2 Shredder
I've never been one to feel like every personal document needs to be shredded, nor has shredding paper ever been a big part of my job. Thus I've not been more than a very casual user of paper shredders. This led me to erroneously believe that, give or take a few bells and whistles, all shredders... Read full review »
Not My Choice
Bought it thinking I could use to shred old docs, didn't get too far into project when plastic casing aroung cutter head warped from heat. Unit still works, but only marginally at best. Read full review »
Flawed product
My office has this shredder for every day shredding of company and client documents. According to Fellowes this shredder can handle 10 sheets of paper at a time, with 50-100 passes per day (500-1000 pieces of paper, or 1-2 reams of 20# paper). To keep it from bogging down, I keep it to no more than... Read full review »
It clogs itself.
My company bought this shredder December, 2004. We haven't use it much because of its major flaw: it clogs itself with shredded paper.
The shredding power is good. It can shred a credit card without difficulty. But after some shredding, the shredded pieces stick to the roller and cause...
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Built to Break
Probably the biggest disappointment was when I opened the internal housing. Plastic gears? For such a high torque device there is only one explanation for this obvious flaw. Designed in flaws. The American automobile manufactures learned a long time ago: Product Quality equals satisfied (repeat)... Read full review »
Fellows PS80C-2 Owner
I've owned two of these dogs. The shredder works fine until one of the plastic fingers or guides between the cutting wheels breaks. Then the cuttings get jambed causing more and more teeth to break. They will sell you new metal blades but if its a part made of plastic they don't have them for sale... Read full review »
Died after 1-1/2 years
Capacity is overstated and the plastic fingers on the underside of the cutter head broke off and the cutting head would not turn. When I called the company, they said repair parts were not available. The person who answered the phone said that this was "occasionally a problem" but then quickly... Read full review »
Don't waste your time or money
The after-sales service seemed good for the first year but the 7 year cutter warranty was never likely to be claimed against because the other components failed shortly after the first year.
No spare parts are available for the product so when it goes wrong out of warranty there is no...
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Awesome little shredder
After one of my friends had her identity stolen, I decided that my wish to have a shredder was not born out of paranoia, but dire reality. However, I didn't want a cheap POS strip-cut shredder that would break after a couple of months and still allow my personal information to be read with only a... Read full review »
Broken plastic guides killed the shredder in 2 yrs
This shredder is born to die early. It worked well for several years. Then a bad design allows plastic guides to break in normal use, and are these not repairable. The manufacturer tells you that it is your fault because your didn't oil it enough. Why doesn't Fellowes get honest and change the... Read full review »
No More Fellowes for me.
My PS-80 lasted about 1 1/2 years with moderate use, no staples or paperclips and no more than 5 pages at a time, otherwise it got balky. Then I accidentally sent a staple through and the darn thing died a horrible, noisy death. When I tried to get it repaired, I found that they cannot be repaired... Read full review »
just rcvd this - I'm impressed
I just rcvd this unit to replace an FS60CC that ate up another plastic gear (2nd time-every gear but 1 is steel).
This one has a much lower pitched sound and sounds like it could chew thru a 1/4 inch board. With 10 sheets I could barely tell it was laboring (thanks to a 6 Amp motor). No need...
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Housing very weak
I use my shredder at home so it has light to medium workloads. The cutter mechanism seems to work well and the only problem was when I was removing the basket the weight of the unit is to much for the housing and the four #6 screws holding the housing together snapped with the small plastic... Read full review »
I'd pick another brand.
For normal office use, I'd pick another brand. Ours died after 1.4 years and I was informed that after the one year warranty period (5 yrs. on cutters), parts are no longer available. It's made to be disposable.
According to our office machine repairman, these guys are supposedly great at...
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Worst Shredder I've Ever Used!
This machine existed in my office when I came here in January. My co-worker had never used it, other than for one or two pieces of paper at a time.
I shred often and have found this to be the worst machine I've ever used. Three or four pieces of paper are all it's capable of taking at...
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An overworked shredder
In my opinion, this machine was purchased for our office without any input from our staff. Needless to say the machine was to small for our application. I was amazed it lasted this long. This seemed to be a great deal for an occasional use shredder. I would recommend it for a small office... Read full review »
It shreds like a mutha
We have this shredder in our office just for occasional shredding of confidential papers. Mostly we keep all papers here at work in storage and it?s a mess! But sometimes there are things they don?t want binded and stored, so off to the shredder I go. Here are some of this Fellowes Powershred PS 80... Read full review »
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