on this week's catalogue beginning today.
the keyboard is good for people needing a cheap keyboard without running to computer shop to get one.
shredder will be useful to destroy letters prior to recycling to prevent identity theft.
Standard USB Keyboard / Manual Paper Shredder $3.99 @ Woolworths
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Unless you're writing Santa letters for 50 kids.
Just sayin' ;)
Well the last two can write their letters on the front and back covers then.
thats the ozbargain spirit!
Big w is selling 5x 64 page exercise books for 10 cents.
http://catalogues.bigw.com.au/portal/offerdetails/exercise_b…
I wonder if the manual paper shredder plays a tune when you turn the handle - looks like a kids toy.
Opposite page lists a "BananaMover", a bent plastic case that provides protection for your bent fruit?
When I read manual paper shredder, I imagined a pair of scissors
I have a $0 manual shredder. My hands have the ability to rip paper to shreds.
Please post your bargain on the front page mbroere.
Shipping?
Depends. Delivery charges are based on bus fares and taxi rides.
Shipping will be a killer. Auspost charge per kilo…
How many sheets can your shredder shred per minute? And how often do I have to maintain your shredder? Do I use shredder oil, money or beer?
are you sure you want to lube mbroere up?
Gonna get me one of them paper shredders! Saves me soaking my credit card receipts and mashing them up!
Ok that's a bit too far… O.o
That's what the guy going through my rubbish bin says too! :P
Caution: Tinfoil Hat Area.
Darn it, I was hoping for an all-in-one Keyboard and Shredder. Title deceptive.
I hear there's a duct-tape mod for that :p
yeah, I was looking for multifunction as well!
wouldn't burning your papers/receipts/letters etc be safer than shredding?
depends if burning your house down is not as important as destroying some papers
if u are careful
how can u burn it down..
only morons would not know how to burn properly
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just put it in a meta pot and on some cement away from your house
or just sit in the comfort of your favourite arm chair in your air-conditioned room and shred into a bin without worrying about making sure everything burns 100% or how to get that smoky burning smell out of your hair and clothes.
remember the scene in batman returns
when penguin pull out a shredded doc…anyone with time and a desire to get your document can do it..
You need a cross shredder or confetti to be safe..
agreed, especially if banknotes are involved http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_9270000/newsid_9276…
You need a scanner and some computer software to put those documents back together.
Or lots of dedicated workers. Recall the American Embassy in Teheran.
To be safe, you outsource. Hire a secure document destruction service.
Who's the identity thief going to go for: someone who uses a shredder and puts the shreddings in the same bag as their baby's used nappies, or the person down the street who puts their bank statements neatly stacked in their recycling bin? A shredder of any sort takes you from 'vulnerable to casual inspection' to 'requires effort'.
A cross cut/confetti cut shredder is certainly safer (I use one) but you can't get one as small as this and they certainly cost a hell of a lot more than $4.
I just eat my receipts, nobody can try figuring put my cc details from my shit :)
is that a challenge?
Yes ozbargain challenge :)
All Bran is made from shredded bills/receipts anyway ;-)
good thinking, change title to : usb keyboard + manual paper shredder + free all-bran cereals.
I remember there was a time when exercise books on special sold for 1c or 2c each. (this was after the introduction of rounding to the nearest 5c). I believe you could have bought one book and go out paying nothing for it… you can then repeat the process again and again, or until they kick you out.
Got the manual shredder and it was weird how I actually found shredding paper so calming! 0.o
Especially all those final notices?
That too! LOL!!
I GoT oNE oF tHE keYbooooaRds. WOrkS oK I GUEss.
Looks like you're shredding on it man ;)
Mineismissingthespacebar.:(
I hzve a snzaking suzpiczon zome of tze keyz are wirzd to the wrzng membrzne.
Am I the only person who can't find a image of the keyboard/shredder?
Yes, probably because you bought the woollies 17" monitor for $6.98 last time
I got this shredder from BigW a few months backs for around the same price… Might have even been a bit cheaper…
Works well for 1 page at a time, 2 pages is pushing it…
or you need to grow some muscle ;)
Weet-Bix. Aisle 7.
The A3 laminator is a great deal too. $19.99 never seen one for that cheap before.
A-L-D-I :p
are they any good though?
Tried twice to buy the $3.99 shredder, but no stock. There was a single $34.99 electric one from the catalog (on sale elsewhere in the store at that price) on the bottom shelf, which had a label under it showing it was on special at $13.99!! Obviously they had placed it where a $20 shredder belonged, as the label said 30% off. Being a canny OzBargainer, I took the shredder & label to the checkout - scanned at $34.99. A staff member was called, and since the label description closely matched the dearer shredder - I got a bargain!! Maybe check your Woolies (in ordinary stationary section, not back to school specials).
Lucky/Nice of Woolies… A customer could have dumped it there so they didn't have to give it to you at that price (esp. if there was only one as opposed to an obvious stocking placement/labelling error if there were a lot displayed there)
A customer could have placed it there, but Woolies left it there, and a matching price ticket. I would have required the item for free it it scanned at a higher price.
I was talking to the guy stocking the stationary section (asking for the manual shredder) & he pointed to the only shredder he knew of. When I pulled the box off the shelf to find the price underneath I commented that I might as well get this powered one for $10 more, he just said yes. So not placed there by customer for any imagined reason. Only 1 could fit in the tight space -probably normally occupied by 2 smaller shredders but they were out of stock.
I only realised much later what must have happened. Obviously, my Woolies does not normally stock many shredders & shelf fillers must not have known special catalog purchases like this shredder went on the 'seasonal' shelves by the freezers, not the stationary section. They filled the only space with a tag marked shredder in Stationary. Their mistake & my gain.
I had politely asked to buy the item at the price shown on the shelf (indicated by a staff member), & handed them the discount price ticket which accurately described the Woolies brand shredder. They checked with another staff member from that section, and it was approved.
LOL You're not the first today to suggest I should have got it for free. (But didn't think about it at the time.) Yes, I could have bought it & then complained it scanned higher than the shelf price. But, the usual response is that a stocking error (like this) does not count & may have been moved by a customer. I have received free products for mis-stocked items, but they were under $10 each & I could show the products were mis-stocked over many days. There would be a greater incentive to find a reason to say no on a $35 item. Still a $21 saving is not bad.
I ate a lot of free food as a student due to that policy! Woolies never learnt to change the prices. Each week Woolies would overcharge for the same product, and I would go to the service counter to get it for free. I felt sorry for people who were overcharged & did not know it, not Woolies! But friends expect me to do better than buy a shredder for 1/3 price, or even free. They expect me to be paid for it.
Obviously no trader has to sell at an incorrect price. I was quite happy to leave without the shredder, but it was worth asking. I am a regular, some staff know me - for the right reasons, & I sometimes have chats with the manager. In general a trader like Woolies will sometimes be generous.
Woolworths and Coles must give it for free because they subscribe to and advertise the Scanning Code of Practice.
PS another way for stock to end up in the wrong spot and look like it belongs is because somebody will pick up an expensive item, then see a cheaper alternative, take that and leave the expensive one in its place.
48 page exercise book for 5c too… Can't really go wrong there