Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Dear Amazon community, I strongly recommend you NOT to buy this product. I have attached some REAL photos taken just after assembly, so you can see the difference between what they show here on Amazon vs. what you get once the package arrives. This is the Cheapest and most disappointing piece of "furniture" you can get. Everything is awful: packing, materials, hardware, finishes, even the instructions manual. It's all terrible. First: it arrived late. I know there was some storm on the way, so that is not the seller's fault, but still started all with the wrong foot. Second: packing, terrible, with cheap styrofoam. Once you open the box all inside is dirty, filled with dust, wood chips and styrofoam little pieces everywhere. When I moved the box inside the house I immediately knew there was something wrong. It was too heavy, and having grown in the wood furniture business I knew there was not a single piece of authentic wood in this product. I was right, it is all made of compressed chipwood and resin (particleboard or chipboard). No matter what you hear or see out there, this is the cheapest and ugliest material for "wood" furniture. It is flimsy, extremely sensitive to humidity/water, smells bad and has a very short lifespan compared to wood. Third: assembly instructions are deficient, poor. You can easily make a mistake if you are not 100% attentive. You may even need to open Amazon's pictures to compare the position of certain pieces. They even instruct you to lay it face down to nail the flimsy back cover when its an uneven piece of furniture on that face!, (see pictures). That is just idiotic. Fourth: once assembled, the joints are ugly. The edges are rough and it came with one screw missing for the last hook (see pictures). I only finished assembling it because I was already about 40% when I saw how bad it was looking, and I didn't want go thru the process of putting it apart, re-packing and taking it to some UPS store for return (super-heavy). Fifth: Last but not least, the size on the site's pictures is as deceiving as it can be. If you intend to put something bigger that a pair of flip flops or some toddler shoes, you will be disappointed. I tried to fit some 12 size sneakers and not even 1 fitted in one full slot (see pictures). I regret not making a quick run to IKEA instead. All that being said, we will try to use it some little time, but I have not a single doubt in my mind, that this disappointing piece of garbage is going out in the first garage sale available. I will be OK if we can get $5 or $10 for it, if not even for free, just as long as they take it with their own means. Hopefully my review helps someone avoid making this huge mistake we just made.