Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

While this thing looks like a quality-made piece of furniture, it will deteriorate right in front of your eyes in the span of weeks. The "faux wood" slats, also comically referred to by the manufacturer as "weather-resistant simulated wood" panels are fastened with what looks to be "faux screws" that is absolutely "faux good quality" and will break off one by one and curl upwards into the person that sits on them and one by one will break off, until you are left with only a metal frame with no panels that you cannot sit on. What good is having something that won't "fade, rot, crack, chip, or peel" as they claim, when it also won't stay on the frame to allow you to sit on it because the tack screws or the holes they screw into easily breaks? Unfortunately, I bought two of these sets and loved them for the first few months. Now only one set is useable, but two of the slats have broken off as you can see in the pictures, so you've got to be careful where you sit. Too bad they did not find a better way to fasten the slats onto the frame, because this thing was awesome and very much a conversation piece when I bought two of these benches. Five months later, I have one dead and buried and one left, with two broken slats and more to come. Very disappointing.