Several years ago I bought a Royal 16 Microcut crosscut shredder, (Costco), after a couple Fellowes that ate themselves up, returned those for full refunds to Costco. This one has held up extremely well, likely comes close to its 16 sheet claim, but I don’t push it. It eats anything with my/our name/address or any other tidbits, including CDs, DVDs that have had data stored on them, Credit cards, insurance cards, and as it all goes into the local yard waste bin for mulch, I even shred a lot of cardboard boxes, and have for a long time now… So it’s really tough, has stayed sharp, no fumbles of bang, pops like the failed Fellowes did…
I see now it’s been Discontinued, no longer at Costco, so if this one breaks I’m outta luck… But, its been great!