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[Neoskel]

Spider's mandibles are still designed to eat, especially if it's a giant spider. Think tarantulas. The 'liquefy meal' strategy of most spiders doesn't really work on a larger scale.

[Kagus]

Well, again, those are tarantulas.  They don't use brute force because venom somehow loses power with size, they use brute force because they're tarantulas. 

Here's a video of an orb weaver eating a small bird that got caught in its web.  I don't know of any non-hunting spiders that don't use venom to slurp out the juicy innards of captured prey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1JNMo8M24