Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Where to begin. A nice, heavy box arrives, open it to find sturdy metal shelves and poles, and instructions that are simple and easy to follow. Everything to this point is quality, worthy of a 5 star review. Until you start to assemble the unit, using the extremely thin, cheap plastic collars that are supposed to snap together and which the metal shelves rest upon. First of all, they will NOT snap together, they will just kind of vaguely meet. This will insure that EVERY time you try to put a shelf on that at least half of them will pop off, forcing you to try and get them all connected, which will fail again and again. Finally you will get them all together, get the shelves on them and think that you are home free. Oh, silly person. Once you start loading those shelves at least one, and probably two of them will...surprise!...have the cheap plastic collars again fly off, but this time with the stuff on the shelves slipping and sliding off. And here's the funny part -- those little, thin pieces of plastic are what holds up every shelf, and are supposed to support hundreds of pounds of weight. Let that sink in. Thin plastic that doesn't lock together supporting hundreds of pounds. WHY would Amazon go cheap on the one aspect of this shelf that NEEDS to be sturdy? Everything else is metal -- it would have not cost much more to make locking metal collars that would actually stay where they are supposed to be and support the weight required. IF they had done that, this would be a sturdy unit and rank 5-stars for material and quality. As it is, while it is currently together, I have low expectations it will stay that way, and am only storing extremely light, unbreakable things on the top two shelves -- pretty much the exact opposite of what I bought it for! I will be looking into other ways to stabilize these shelves, at which point it will serve the purpose intended - just at a higher cost and far more trouble than I wanted when I ordered it. Amazon, you could have a very high quality product here...instead, you put your name on something pretty worthless and should fix this fast!