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When I took these out of the box, the first thing that struck me was how surprisingly-thin they are. At the time of this review, the product description says these use plastic that is 2 mil thick. I don't have a reliable/accurate way to measure one bag, but I decided that I should be able to stack up about 100 bags or so, measure them with a ruler, and do some simple math to determine the thickness of each bag. It wouldn't be exact, but it would be close.
A stack of 100 of these bags is roughly 5.5 mm thick. Google tells me that 5.5 mm is 216 mil. 216 divided by 100 is 2.16. Obviously, each bag has two layers of plastic, so I divide by 2 and that tells me that each layer of plastic is about 1 mil. I was right; the plastic used in these bags is half as thick as advertised. As part of this order, I also ordered these: 500 CLEAR Reclosable Zipper Bag. 2'' x 3'' 2 mil thick and they are as thick as I was expecting.
Also, the product description describes these as being 3 inches by 4 inches. They're not. They're 3 inches wide, but they're not 4 inches tall. The distance from the bottom of the bag to the zipper is 3.5 inches. If you measure all the way to the top (past the zipper), it's about 3.9 inches. However you want to measure it, it's not 4 inches. My expectation was that distance between the bottom of the bag and the bag's zipper would be 4 inches (I wanted the usable, internal area to be 3" x 4").
I gave these 2 stars instead of 1 because the zipper is decent and I don't think the bags will come apart at the seams. Basically, if these had been advertised as being 1 mil thick and 3" x 3.5", I would have given them 5 stars. If you don't care about the measurements very much and don't care that these are super-thin, I'd say go for it. If you do care about these things, I'd suggest for you to steer clear.
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