Shredder for Home, Bonsaii 6 Sheet Cross Cut Paper Shredder for Small Home Office Use, Portable Handle Design with 3.4 Gallons Wastebasket (C237-B)

I am *impressed* with this little shredder. We had several months backlog after unexpectedly having to cancel our quarterly shred service. I was expecting to spend hours catching up. Boy, was I wrong! This little dude ate envelopes full of credit offers, balance transfers, and every other annoying POS junk mail we get. I got through it all, including one time to empty it, in less than an hour. Never jammed, never overheated. I can’t say enough good things about this little guy! Just buy it!

When this item arrived I sat down with a big stack of papers that needed shredding and went to work.
Shredded for 35 minutes strait feeding in stacks of 8 to 10 sheets non stop and the unit just ate it all up !
Didn’t get hot or slow down so I would say it passed it’s trail by fire

I only received this 2 days ago, but have spent most of my time catching up on my “shredding”. The machine itself is a real workhorse, and does just as it was advertised to do.
A few comments and suggestions:
Upon receiving the machine, and the “adequate”, but not great manual, I had a question about the assembly, and so called the customer support number, which is prominently shown on the unit itself. They could not have been nicer, and promptly answered my question…so, “great customer support”.
Now, a suggestion: Amazon sells “Bonsai Shredder Lubricant Sheets”, which I highly recommend. Basically, you run a sheet through the shredder, and it lubricates the machine! No mess, no fuss.
Finally, when you assemble the machine (which only entails placing the motor on top of the wastebasket and the shell that holds the wastebasket, you must FIRMLY seat the motor onto the shell. If you do not, when you plug in the machine, the “Auto” button will flash. Now, the manual does not tell you why the Auto button would flash, but it is probably because the motor assembly is not FIRMLY set into the shell. Just give it a firm tap, so that there is no space between the motor and the shell. Once you do that, the Auto button will turn a constant blue, and you are ready to go.
As mentioned, I have REALLY worked this machine for the past 2 days, and it does everything it should, and is, therefore, highly recommended!

Brilliant absolutely brilliant made easy work of a mountain of confidential and private paperwork that would have taken weeks of slog with our old one. I bought oil as well as I didn’t realise the need to oil a shredder. Easy to oil I found a video online just add some oil to one piece of paper in a zig zag and feed through. Using reverse and forward switch.
It does take up to 18 sheets but mostly we have put a dozen or so at the same time.
No need to remove staples.
Laminates need to be sandwiched in between two sheets of paper.
We also tried it on credit card great job on that too.
Bin nice and large I’d advise emptying before it gets absolutely full to avoid mess spilling out on the floor.
It comes with 1 plastic bag insert we did use that, it clips on two lugs, this does make emptying easy, but we haven’t bought more of these yet as the one has lasted.
All in all a brilliant buy and I would recommend to others who have large amounts of shredding .

This machine is incredible… nice and quiet and it completely demolishes huge amounts of paperwork with ease. Please see the photos below! No words needed!

This is the best we have had so far but, it doesn’t shred 18 sheets, no where near, that’s time consuming as I use this to shred leases and have to pull them all apart into max 8 sheets each shred. Although I do keep it oiled as instructions it has jammed up on me twice and has stopped when I put a credit card in. It is also really messy to empty, I put a bag in the hopper now ( you don’t want to be trying to empty it upside down into a bag and the sides are wide and a bit sharp so cut through a plastic bin liner easily but even so lots of bits hang on to the cutters and when you slide the hopper out they fly everywhere and into the base of the shredder so its always a vacuum job. One day I will find a shredder that is clean and easy to empty. This IS a good shredder but considering its cost its not so much better than its cheaper rivals.

Bought this about 1.5 years ago, its not been subjected to heavy use and worked until recently when the auto shredding mechanism failed. That is, the shredder keeps running and not shutting down after a shredding operation. It appears the sensor (located in the middle of the shredder slot) which detects the presence of paper and controls the duration of the shredding operation has failed. The part is non-replaceable according to the retailer and one has to revert to manual control. Considering the cost of the machine I would expect better reliability.

I had this shredder for just under 2 years. It is a great piece of equipment. Contrary to some comments that it does not shred 18 pages, this is not my experience. It easily does. It has to be maintained like any shredder by oiling the blades every so often. The bin is large and can hold a decent amount of waste. It is very fast and robust, easily shredding discs and cards.

That’s all great but I got just under 2 years of use out of it before it started to malfunction this week.

Sadly, this has a 1 year warranty which is nowhere near what it should be guaranteed to work for; given its use as a business machine and its price. You would be better off buying a shredder for half the price (and there are many) and throwing them away every year. The shredder I had before this was quite basic handling 9 pages but it lasted 3 years until it packed up.

Buyers should be warned that a 1 year warranty means that the manufacturer is not themselves convinced you will get more than a year of use out of it.

The item stopped working after 3 days of very light use.
Because of working commitments, I was unable to return the item once it was over 30 days old (over 30 day malfunction, who knows what would happen).
My intention initially was to buy a new one from the same supplier and return the old one in the new item box…but as we had ‘overrun’ the 30 day period, this became impossible.
When I saw the retailer was based in HongKong, I decided to cancel the replacement and buy from another more reputable supplier.
Stay clear of Bonsaii.

This does cut well, this does do many sheets, you can do it for a long time without it overheating.
But… sometimes you switch it on and put the paper in and it does nothing. No shredder start up.
You check all the switches, switch it off an on again, check everything but it will not shred.
You have heard that thin paper may tell the sensor that paper is not there but that is not the case as this is many pages.
You spin it round, switch it off and on again. Put the paper in, take it out. Do this a few times more.
Boom! Suddenly it starts shredding for you again.
This is what I experience from my use of it.
Make of it what you will.
I like it when it shreds but it is picky about when it wants to do it.

I am glad that you contacted me. I liked your product very much until about a week after using it. Unfortunately it stopped working then and I could not find out who to contact. I had no reply from Amazon. I know that the world is not perfect and I still do not believe that this warrants a poor review.

I will be very grateful if you can contact me so that I can describe the problem to you.

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ONE OF THESE!!!! Did 2 years worth of shredding without overheating (45mins running constantly) Really doesn’t get jammed when overfeed. More of a quiet hum than a loud grinding (We have a dental practice and cant usually shred if someone on phone /dealing with customer, but not a problem now) Gave 4 star as the size of strips can still be read if font around size 10

I won’t buy this again. First one only worked for 2 hours. Returned. Second one to replace first one has now stopped working after about a month. Same problem. There is power to shredder, but it won’t shred!

The motor that does the work looks robust but the case is so thin and flimsy that it broke while I was putting it together which was rubbish. I needed this urgently so didn’t have time to return it so had to stick it back together myself with glue. The entire base of the unit splintered into a dozen pieces. Not impressed at all.

My machne was delivered on 24th November 2019 and I used it approximately every two weeks to shred papers etc. and, as I am a domestic user, this really didn’t amount to a great quantity. After I used the machine on 1st February 2020 I didn’t use it again until mid-February when I found that the machine would not work. There seemed to be power getting to the machine, but the power lamp would not illuminate. It was then I found out that my window for returning the machine ran out on 31st January 2020!! However, after communication with Amazon and the seller, which included sending proof via video that the machine would not work, the seller offered me a replacement machine, which I accepted and they told me that it sounded like something was wrong with the PCB board. So, while I have no complaints about the seller and the customer service, I must say that I personally would not buy this machine again. I found that the body of the machine was very lightweight and is all made from a medium weight plastic. It is not at all robust in any way at all. The top of the machine is very heavy, obviously because of the electrics and motor etc., so when the bin is out of the machine and you are perhaps cleaning it or removing paper from the blades, it is quite easy to knock over. Although it does certainly appear to do its job, I would not recommend buying this machine as the quality is very disappointing and for it to break down after less than three months of light use is very unsatisfactory indeed.

We can comment only on installation difficulties as it took us a long time to discover how to set up the machine. The instruction manual is not helpful. It says nothing about how to instal the four castors, and its diagram on how to fit the shredder head to the wastebasket was too small to understand, and was accompanied by insufficient explanation. After much trial and error, much time-wasting, and several courteous but unhelpful exchanges with the firm’s ‘customer care’, we were faced with requests for photographs, videos and order numbers (difficult to locate) and we bypassed these by discovering eventually through time-wasting trial-and-error how to set up the machine for ourselves. The shredder head is very heavy, and it is extremely difficult simultaneously to bend over, lift it and position it correctly on the wastebasket while looking down on it from above. We also think that doing this would be positively dangerous for anyone with back problems: it puts the purchaser in the classic danger position of combining bending with lifting. After all this, we did eventually discover how to get the shredder working, but can’t yet comment on how well it operates. But our initial experience is not at all promising. We should add as a postscript, however, that the firm, without any pressure from us, volunteered a 20% discount on the purchase price. SIR BRIAN AND DR. HARRISON

Very happy with this shredder; easy to use, quiet in operation and the window on the front is useful to tell you how full the bin is. The bin is easy to empty without leaving a trail of shreddings. Putting it in reverse before opening the bin is helpful too. I found it perfectly good at shredding 12-15 sheets at a time, this will depend on the weight of the paper you are using. I know also from experience it’s important to spray some shredder lubricant along the length of the paper slot from time to time, otherwise you may find the number of sheets it can handle reduces.

I did 50 minutes of continuous shredding and it worked very well without a break.
It never jammed even when I put in more sheets at one time than I would ever have dared trying to feed into my old shredder.
The feed slot is a little narrow along its length, it doesn’t start wide and narrow down, so can be fiddly to feed even slightly crumpled paper.
The hopper is a good size and has a window to check how full it is.
It comes with a plastic bag for the hopper which makes emptying it much easier.
All and all I am very happy so far