Insignia™ - 10-Sheet Crosscut Shredder - Gray

Aloha kakahiaka kakou. Soooo.... I bought this shredder for my college classroom. Wanted to make sure any paper products like handouts, worksheets, fliers, etc could be shredded for use in our compost bin to eventually be rendered useful for our classroom garden. That was in December ʻ18. Itʻs April ʻ19 and iʻm going about my business shredding more and more documents all amped on our efforts of reducing the amount of paperwork we use in the first place, but also at least composting what papers we DO use. This morning I'm going about my business prepping for today's class and shredding old memos, etc when I hear a grinding, slow, painful noise coming from the shredding. "Great....time to buy a new shredder..." was honestly my first thought. Store brands...what can you do?! I try to reverse it...more grinding...Run it forward...more grinding.... I unplug the shredder (safety first!!) and then lift if off itʻs bin and look at the shredding teeth. Nothing seems stuck, out of place, or out of the ordinary. I look inside the bin, there's this twisted metal object, right on top of the pile of otherwise expertly shredded paper. I know itʻs a quarter form the reeded edge and its size, and can see (whatʻs left of) the 2018 date on it. George Washington's mug is gone, but Liberty on the front is there. IDK whatʻs on the back, but just "PICTURED ROCK" is all I can read. "Okay...cool, a messed up quarter. Great. But does your shredder still work?" YES! IT DOES! I grab more of the papers that are destined for the compost heap, and they shred as expected. Iʻm dang impressed! Great job BestBuy with your Insignia brand!! Okay, itʻs almost class time, gotta go!! A hui hou!

We purchased this as it was a great price on sale and thought it might do the job in our home office. It is rated for 10 sheets and does a great job shredding documents and receipts into small pieces, but found initially that it will only do 3 to 5 sheets at a time before it will bog down. Having over 2 boxes of documents saved to shred, we found that after 12 to 15 minutes, it overheats and takes 25 to 30 minutes to cool down to continue. The bin is easy to remove and convenient to handle, but one of the two wheels on the bin broke off the first time the bin was pulled out. It did not affect any functionality so we continued using it. After a while, the number of sheets it would shred went down and took more time to cool down than we could use it. We did return this as it appeared to struggle with light duty work and never fully got through the 2 boxes of paper. If you need a light duty shredder and keep up with it daily, this might work well for you. In a higher duty scenario, look for a heavier duty shredder. The 10 sheets it claims is optimistic.

purchased this shredder for bills and junk mail. Works great for occasional use. They claim it will do 6 pages at once, I usually do 2-3 otherwise it doesn't seem to cut all the way though the papers. If you are a procrastinator and let your junk mail/bills/ misc paperwork stack up before shredding this machine will frustrate you. If you do too many pages at once it will not punch all the way through them. And after about 15-20 min of constant feeding this machine the overheat light comes on and you have to wait for the motor to cool down. I knew this machine was light duty when I made the purchase which is why I still gave it 4 stars. For the average user that doesn't need high capacity, and doesn't need a piece of paper turned into a million tiny pieces this is your machine.

This INSIGNIA model NS-PS10CC CROSS CUT SHREDDER is by far the best SHREDDER that we have ever purchased. We had "apple boxes" filled with old receipts, medical statements, house purchase papers etc. This shredder handled everything we shoved down its throat! Yes, we had it moaning & groaning, but it just took it all. My wife forgot to empty it out, even though there is a CLEAR WINDOW, that you can see all the shredded pieces inside the bucket. It just kept chugging! We have not overheated this unit unlike previous shredders, from other manufacturers, that "TIMED OUT" while using the the shredder. With those shredders, we were waiting for up to fifteen minutes after heavy use. HECK YA, TWO THUMBS WAY UP!!!

Shredder works well for everything stated in the description. However, if you have a large amount if documents to shred at the same time, don't. I never put more than a few sheets in at a time, and after about 30 mins it got so jammed that it wouldn't even reverse anymore to clear the jam. I had to pull all the little pieces of severely jammed paper out with a pair of needle nosed pliers to get it to run again. I would recommend having a hand brush handy every time you empty the bucket in order to clean out the blades so that won't happen. Lesson learned. Other than that, the shredder works very well.

This was to replace a shredder that just wore out. It was running for 30 to 60 seconds every time it was used, even though all had been shredded. This one shreds into nice small pieces and stops within seconds of the paper passing through the blades. It's nice and quick. I'd seen reviews saying it was noisy, I don't find it to be noisy. It's quieter than the one it replaced. I also like the handle on top that makes it easy to remove the top and empty the basket. It's a good idea to have something to set the top unit onto because if you lay it on carpet, particles of paper from the blades will remain on the carpet when you lift it to replace it.

I purchased this on sale and with a certificate for less than $25. If I had got it home and and it hadn't work it would not have been worth the gas to take it back. I had over 3 years worth of boxes and garbage bags of personal info and old credit cards to dispose of. I got this shredder home and shredded as much as I could to if it was durable. I shredded two garbage bags of papers and it was great. I don't recommend putting in more than 6 pieces of paper at a time. It took envelopes with slight thickness that hadn't been opened, staples and the credit cards I saved for last. It never ran hot but I had 2 jams (paper). Considering all the shredding I did I expected more problems. I'm glad I finally purchased it.

This shredder is one of the best I've ever owned. It is able to shred 10 pages at once with ease. It can go to 12 or 13, but you can really hear the slow pull of the motor when it does this, so don't push it past the limit. Shredding CDs is easy too. The directions state to not use a bag so I don't, but when shredding CDs, it leaves a flaky, shiny mess in the can. I guess it's the static that clings the CD foil to the edges. Emptying it would require wiping the inside of the can so understand that. It isn't as quiet as I thought it would be, but it's a shredder. My documents are shredded very fine and I'm very happy with this investment. Does a marvelous job for the price. More expensive shredders end up shredding less pages. I recommend this product.