Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I now have 5 of these garden beds that I use outdoors during the summer months. I have had 2 of them for almost two years and I just recently purchased 3 more. I have had to send 2 of these back because they arrived broken around the base where the legs meet the garden box. I had a third one that was broken on the inside base of the tub at the drain plug stem. I didn't send this one back because I am hoping i can just epoxy it back in place (see attached picture). They seem to come in the same packaging despite ordering them from different sellers. I believe they are being drop-shipped. The shipper (OEM?) needs to beef up the packaging because it is very discouraging to receive something that is timely for the planting season and have to return it and wait for a replacement. But, the units that I did receive which arrived in good shape have been giving me great success. They hold up well in the direct sun and have shown no signs of degradation so far. My garden area consists of a number of large 4' x 8' x 16" garden beds that I have been using for my gardening for the last 10 years. I made them from Pine (except one which is cedar) and they have held up well until recently. As they are beginning to decay I am replacing them with these beds ( I put two of them in the footprint of one of my older beds with a nice partition between them that makes it easy to access them on both sides.). I find that they are much less prone to the varmints that like to pilfer my vegetables like mice and chipmunks. I stick a few stakes in the soil at the four corners and wrap one circle of screen around the bed and drape a screen over the top and it does a great job for the beginning of the season of repelling critters. Each bed can handle 3-4 tomato plants or 6 pepper plants and this year I got a great yield in both beds. There is a plastic plug that can be used in the base to hold a reservoir of water that helps reduce the watering cycles if the bed is being used indoors. Since I have not yet used them indoors (that will be this years project) I cannot attest to how efficient the water collection and feeding method works but will update in the spring on how successful I was. When using them outdoors, I remove the plug and let the water drain. I water the beds every 2-3 days which seems to be adequate even in light of this year where we had meaningful rain only twice the entire summer. The garden beds hold about three cu Ft of soil. See photos. The beds are nice and deep at 12" and they are 17" x 42" as measured on the inside perimeter. The water plugs are elevated so that when using them outside, they will retain water to about 4" before draining. This provides adequate reserve to keep the soil moist between rain or watering. There is a watering indicator which is just a piece of Styrofoam type material on a stick that sits inside a tube that mounts to the bottom panel of the bed. As the water level rises, the foam floats up and the indicator at the protruding end of the stick comes out of the tube to let you know the water level. The feet are in two sections. The longer section that attaches to the basin has a sheet screw that holds in in place, the bottom piece which I guess is about 4" just slides on to the longer section. What I don't like about that is every time I pick the bed up to move it they fall off. its not a big deal and I guess I could just glue them into place to keep them there but its worth mentioning. All and all, I like the beds and I hope they hold up for many years. I don't like that you have about a 50% crap shoot (at least with my experience) of having it arrive broken. That loses a star.