Royal JS500C Shredder

Pros: Larger capacity than most homeowner's will need.
Cons: Costs more than most personal devices

This review is of the Royal Orca 3500x cross-cut personal shredder.

Unfortunately there is an element of society that thrives on stealing peoples identities for their personal financial gain. What I mean is that the criminal element in...

Pros: It works great and is compact
Cons: Once it is shredded-there's no turning back!

This review was originally written on 1/14/2000. I am relocating this review to the new category that has been added this past week.

I purchased the Royal Cross Cut Paper Shredder about a year ago to put in my home office. This little...

Pros: Cuts into very small pieces
Cons: Noisy

I never believed that I would have the need for a paper shredder, for my personal use at home. And one could certainly argue that I still don't need one. However, in today's world unfortunately, we are hearing more about people stealing another persons...

Pros: Shreds fast and evenly, inexpensive, easy to operate
Cons: Can only do small batches at a time. Will not shred window envelopes

Maybe it's my fertile imagination - who knows? After watching a 20/20 episode about a woman whose life had been ruined by "identity thieves," galloping paranoia struck hard. I made it my mission to purchase a paper shredder.

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Pros: Shreds
Cons: None

A couple of years ago I was on a big kick about my privacy. I suppose I still am, just not like then.
Ok, so maybe I've watched one too many talk show about trash diggers and identity thieves, but all I know is that I don't want this to happen to...

Pros: looks real good.
Cons: not worth 2 cents.

I had a small shredder that would only shred three pages at a time when I decided to "up-grade" to a five page shredder. This Royal has to be the biggest piece of junk I have ever had. The teeth the does the shredding has little plastic...

Pros: Makes real tiny like pieces for you.
Cons: It don't cup up cheese shredded like!

<to be read in your best 'dumb hick' style voice> <Cletus from the Simpsons, David Letterman, Johnny Bravo, your choice>

Oh man, I got myself one of them shredder machines?

And wheww, dog! I like to put my paper in there...

Pros: cross-cut rather than strip cut
Cons: Easily breaks, can't handle the advertised number of sheets

Whn I bought the JS500 for home use, I was expecting a decent product from a respected company. Well, the product was certainly not decent and could not withstand basic uses on a day-to-day basis. While it boasts 5-sheet capability, it starts to...

Pros: cross cut, works well
Cons: paper tray

Just got this Shredder a few weeks ago after reading about the dumpster-diving hackers around this world filling out that free credit card offer you got in your name, but with THEIR address.

So I spent about a minute researching the products...

Pros: Shreds paper well.
Cons: noisy.

AT first i thought a paper shredder was a paper shredder. I figured one would do the job as well as the next. Not true. We finally found the paper shredder we were looking for.

Hearing stories of how thieves and con-artists can piece together...

Pros: Tears up papers into unreadable pieces!
Cons: Kind of loud.

**** Once again I have lost my patients trying to find the actual paper shredder that I wanted to write about so I am writing under a similar paper shredder, Darn Epinions!****


My parents are kinda super cautious kind of people....

Pros: Cuts into small pieces compared to a strip shredder
Cons: Jams below the 5 page limit, temperamental

This shredder replaced a Fellowes ShredStick which worked flawlessly for hours on end but did not cross-cut shred. Pulling the shredder out of the box, one would think it's a substantial device capable of easily shredding five sheets at a time, for...

Pros: Did a nice job of shredding on sheet of paper.
Cons: Couldn't shred a second sheet.

Like most people, I am concerned about what happens to my personal paperwork when the time comes to dispose of it. Straight cut shredders are fine for most things, but a cross-cut model seems far safer when dealing with sensitive items. I purchased the...

Pros: Really is shredded
Cons: Sounds cheesy

I had an older Fellows crosscut shredder that would handle up to 9 sheets and clips and staples. While shredding old files in a marathon shredding session, we managed to break a couple teeth on the drive gear and I needed another shredder right away. I...