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Promotional Business Card Shredder

Instead of a business card, give them this with your company logo on it.
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Everybody gives out pens and such that often get tossed. This would probably be kept on the desks of most people it was given to. I'd use it a lot.

Battery powered and not much bigger than the business cards it's designed to shred, make a statement to your client about the competition.

"Thanks for the meeting Bob, here's something to use after your meetings with other vendors."

Have it say something like: "Doctor Remulac 3's Brain Confunction Service - We shred the competition"

doctorremulac3, May 14 2010

Hand-held shredder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EY1TD4U/
There are already hand-held, human-powered paper shredders. Creating a portable, branded version would be pretty easy. [aguydude, Sep 07 2019]

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       [+] Your competitors will retaliate with business cards designed to jam the mechanism.
mouseposture, May 14 2010
  

       That's ok, technical competition spawns innovation.
doctorremulac3, May 15 2010
  

       My business has a shredder for your shredder.
DrWorm, May 15 2010
  

       Darn, I though this would shred them into cool shapes like linked men.
MisterQED, May 15 2010
  

       //That's ok, technical competition spawns innovation//
Yes, exactly: that's why I voted for the idea.
mouseposture, May 15 2010
  

       //technical competition spawns innovation//   

       Like the business card shredder shredder Dr Worm mentioned which would of course lead to the creation of the business card shredder shredder shredder.
doctorremulac3, May 15 2010
  

       The shredder shredder shredder, which moved under its own power, to seek out and destroy competitors' shredder shredders, was banned last year after a malfunctioning unit shredded a pet gerbil. I hear rumors, though, that BorgCo is developing a larger model for cats.
mouseposture, May 15 2010
  

       Yup. It'll be in the Fall 2010 catalog ...
8th of 7, May 15 2010
  

       It also shreds catalogs.
rcarty, May 16 2010
  

       //It also shreds catalogs//
Yet another mis-application of regular expressions. Somebody obviously used /cat.*/ where they should have put /cats?/
mouseposture, May 16 2010
  

       I don't feel I have the sufficient wit to add to the jokes, so let me just say: Bun [+].
MikeD, May 16 2010
  

       // used /cat.*/ where they should have put /cats?/ //   

       Thise wildcards will get you every time.   

       // I don't feel I have the sufficient wit to add to the jokes //   

       Don't let that make you feel small or inferior, even if you are ....
8th of 7, May 17 2010
  
      
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