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Overview
With more than 72,000 ratings and a 4.7 average, these are about as safe a stationery buy as you will find. You get three pairs of 20cm scissors, so there's one for the kitchen drawer, one for the desk and a spare. The soft-grip handles suit left or right-handed use, and the PVD-coated blades are rated to stay sharp past 100,000 cuts, beating most stainless steel. An adjustable pivot keeps the action smooth. Spread across three pairs, the value per use is hard to argue with. Check the current price on Amazon.
At a glance
Brand
Amazon Basics
Amazon rating
4.7 out of 5, from 72,095 ratings
Against the shelf
0.2 above the office & print supplies median of 4.5
Our placing
1 of 50, weighted for how many people rated it
Where the price sits
Middle of a shelf running £1.10 to £16.95
How settled
Among the most-rated here, so the score is unlikely to shift
How it compares on the office & print supplies shelf
The typical office & print supplies product on our shelf scores 4.5 out of 5, measured across 50 rated products. This one comes in at 4.7. That puts it in the top quarter of the shelf. Most things here rate well, so what matters is the gap to the pack rather than the number on its own, and the gap is real. Weighted for review volume, we place it first on this shelf.
That score rests on 72,095 ratings. The median for this shelf is 8,602. A score built on that many opinions is hard to shift and hard to game, which is why we weight review volume rather than ranking on stars alone.
On money, this sits in the middle third of a shelf running from £1.10 to £16.95, with the midpoint around £5.99. That's where most sensible buys land, neither the cheapest thing on the shelf nor the one you pay a name for.