As I am disabled, I often have difficulty holding a roll of tape, trying to 'find' the end and then cutting it with scissors without it all ending up as a sticky knot.
This is perfect, the weighted base (which seems to be full of sand) is heavy enough for me to pull the tape & rip it off easily with one hand, without the dispenser moving at all. It's also quite an appealing shape for such a mundane item and looks rather modern and stylish sitting in the corner of my desk. Wish I'd bought one years ago.
I'd just like to point out that Amazon has the tape dimentions wrong, which is pretty obvious if you think how long 33mm actually is. The rolls of tape are in fact 19mm wide by 33 METRES long, not 33 millimetres. So there you go, even better value than you thought.