X-ACTO Handheld Battery Operated Electric Pencil Sharpeners, Red

This product eats up the pencil like I drink water. I doesn't sharpen to a point and is overall a bad product. I would rather use a knife to sharpen pencils then this. In my opinion the overall rating is less than 1 with no value and doesn't meet expectations at all.

When we first bought this it worked fine... for a bit. It didn't even make it through the school year. I have 2 kids in school and we were only using it for after school homework. Not it wont sharpen pencils all the way... Bummed. Now to find a better one for this year.

I bought this sharpener about a week ago and the moment I get it home to use, it sounded like a puppy barking. The motor would only spin a fraction at a time. So I did what any good consumer would do, today I took it back to Wal-Mart for an exchange thinking its a faulty one. However, I get another one back home and its even worse than the first. Save your time and money do not buy this junk!! I would given it a less than one star but that is not an option. This mighty mite is the little engine that couldn't!!! I will be taking this junk back for a store credit. I like the little questionnaire "how often have you used this product"? Well, never because it wouldn't work.

This product uses a manual type pencil sharpener inside instead of different type of blades that one would expect to come with an electric sharpener, in which the packaging inferred. It took on an average of thirty seconds to sharpen a pencil and would not sharpen the pencil evenly at all. Upon inserting the pencil straight in, it would over-sharpen one side of the pencil and hardly sharpen the other side. If you pressed laterally against the side of the pencil that was not sharpened enough, it would then sharpen that side. I personally did not prefer to spend time doing all this to get one pencil sharpened and would rather spend a little more money on a product that would just sharpen the pencil correctly as it should.

I bought this for my pencil artwork, and on the third time sharpening with it, this time with a new pencil, the graphite broke and became wedged between the blade and the blade casing. Upon taking it apart to remove the broken lead, the gears broke off. After spending two hours reassembling the gears, the electrical cable would not stay in place when I tried to reassemble the case. I gave up after three hours.