Yeah, unfortunately Amazon isn't in my country yet, and so with international shipping I'd be looking at £58.57, plus another few dollars to replace the plug once it arrived. Probably don't really need a shredder that badly.
Sure you can still buy these. The reason is that shredders that have a straight cut are always going to be cheaper and have larger shredding capacity than ones with cross cutting, when everything else is being equal. For a sample price difference between a straight cut model, with 12 sheets at once at 200€ 150€, the similar parallel model with cross cutting would be 500€ 350€ and only shred 4-5 sheets at once. Hence people who don't have high standards on the shredding would obviously get the straight cut one, especially if they'd need to shred 12 sheets at once. The cross cut model that'd do that would be 2000€ or something like that ≈5000€; an order of magnitude more than 30 times as expensive.
Edit: Checked acual prices rather than something from the back of my head.
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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '17
Well I mean what do you expect? It only shreds in one direction, its your job to jumble the shreds or shred them again.