Customer Reviews for Staples - 2" 3-Ring Better Binder, D-Ring - Black
Customer Rating
4
Worth the purchase
on August 25, 2014
Posted by: Paula K.
My sons school requires them to have 3 ring binders for every subject. Before buying this binder we found ourselves buying replacements at the beginning of the second semester. We were actually able to make it the entire school year. Surprisingly we are able to use a few for a second year which has never happened before.
Am very disappointed in this binder. Just bought it daughter customized it with her own slide in cover/label put in all the dividers and paper to be ready for the first day of school... and it doesn't shut tight. One of the rings sits about 1/4" open when the other two are shut. Which means that every time you try to move the papers on the ring they get caught or fall out. I expect a lot more out of an $11 binder and am very disappointed that it is broken before it has gotten any real use.
We have to pull out this binder at least 20 time a day in the office and flip through pages but after a couple weeks of use the rings do not securely close and pages fall out. I've already exhcanged it twice and have gone through three binders hoping that the rings were just defective but it's happened every time! Tired of exchanging it and I finally just tried to return it but I no longer have the receipt so they won't take it back. Will just have to toss it because it's more of a hassle than anything else!
This binder is fantastic! It holds up to the constant abuse my son puts it through traveling through his school day in and out of the backpack and locker several times daily. And it doesn't show any wear yet! Well worth the buy.
After overloading a one inch binder with recipes printed and punched and more in page protectors I took advantage of the binder trade-in discount. Anyone know how Staples actually recycles all of those binders?