Do You Know What Good Advice Is When Purchasing a New Paper Shredder?

Make Your Next Shredder Purchase Your Best Shredder Purchase

These tips will help you know when you are receiving sound advice from a salesperson who is knowledgeable in the field of paper and cardboard shredders. A product specialist keen to provide expert advice will take time to ask questions about your circumstances. 

In the case of purchasing new paper shredder, when the following questions are being asked, it’s a sign the sales person knows what they are talking about and are likely, a reliable source of information to help you make an informed decision.

Questions Include:

• Is it  for private, working from home or at the office use?
• What your business does?
• What prompted your enquiry?
• How many users?
• What paper sizes you need to shred?
• Daily or weekly volume of pages that need shredding?
• Do you bulk shred archived records due for destruction?
• How often is bulk shredding required and what volume / how many archive boxes?
• Are there documents with staples or paper clips?
• Do you need to shred credit cards, USB or CD/DVD/Blu-ray optical media discs?
• Where will you locate the shredder in the office?
• If you are replacing a shredder, you may be asked what brand and model?
• For those replacing a shredder, you may be asked was the machine adequate or not?
• If the shredder being replaced wasn’t adequate, you may be asked to explain in what ways?

Helpful Discussion Points and Suggestions Include:

• Security levels available including Strip Cut, Cross Cut and P-2, P-4, P-5, P-6 and P-7 levels.
• Strip Cut and Cross Cut advantages or disadvantages and comparative Waste Reduction.
• Feed entry explained in simple English and how it relates to you application.
• Auto Feed and Manual Feed options explained with advantages, disadvantages and limitations.
• Auto Feed Shredding potential time savings.
• Continuous Run Time, esecially important for auto feed due to time it takes to shred a stack.
• Size and potential location.
• Space and height available to determine if the suggested models will fit.
• Nosie Factors and positioning explained.
• Is it important to have castors.
• Suitable brands, models  and colour preferences.

If you're not being asked these questions, you can provide the salesperson with information that's relevant to your circumstances. Should the salesperson recommend any product, this is an opportunity to test their product knowledge just by asking the reasons for the recommendation?

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