Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought this tree for two reasons. First, I didn't want to spend a bunch of money on a hinky piece of cat furniture not knowing if my cat would show any interest in one and second the reviews were pretty good for the very low price of the product. After my experience I have no idea why others found this tree to be even close to acceptable quality. This item is only a relative approximation of the shape of a cat tree. The support tubes are, under layers of carpet and cardboard, plastic. If they were PVC that would be fine but this is a very soft plastic. The tree is assembled with threaded studs which fit into bolts embedded in the ends of the plastic tubes. Now I'll bet your thinking I over tightened the sections and wrenched the bolts out of the plastic but you would be wrong; after seeing the delicate nature of the connections I treated them very carefully. The problem: you can't stand the tree upright without the bolts pulling out under the weight of the assembled tree. Once the thing is upright you still need to adjust the spring pole which fits against the ceiling and every time the tree is moved it becomes more wobbly. The whole situation is very comedic. I did find out my cat likes to climb but the tree is wickedly unstable with one 14 pound Bengal on it and the shelves are pretty darn small. I expect the entire thing to be on the ground when I get home tomorrow. Unless you want to do an interest test like me or your cat is a 5 pounder I would opt for a higher quality product.