Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Gather round, folks. Gather round. Allow me to introduce you to the item that finally awed me, in one direction or another, to the point that I had to write a product review after years of silence. First, allow me to be succinct and blunt: This item is a rip-off. Many of the other one star reviews accurately report the product's problems and the issues with it's advertising. There is nothing heavy duty about this bed frame. Now, for those of you that like a review with a bit of substance: The frame railings are decidedly narrow pieces of metal; I believe I recall another reviewer saying that they were all 1 inch wide (in comparison to the 1.5+ inches that can be found in some other frames), and that is completely accurate. Despite the rails having two "edges" or sides (basically a right angle made out of metal), the folding arms that you connect to assemble the base frame simply feel flimsy due to the lack of material used in their construction. The advertised steel used to produce the frame also seems to be the opposite of dense. I needed a queen frame to replace a full frame, and the old full frame I possessed (which had -no- center support bar) felt heavier than this thing. The pictures on Amazon (and other retailers) are relatively misleading, as the whole thing -looks- like it should be sturdy, but it is not. The center legs, at the head and foot of the frame, are cylinders of plastic attached by a single screw that passes through a hole in the overlapping rail arms and into the cylinder's top. These legs themselves seem weak and cheap, but the biggest problem with them is that they are affixed by that single screw to rail arms that aren't sturdy to begin with. There is another reviewer that mentions hitting one of those center legs with a vacuum, in a session of everyday cleaning, and damaging the leg. I have absolutely no doubt their claim is true. I could push or pull on these legs, and the rail was so weak that it would actually allow movement of the leg with very little resistance. With anything resembling a minimal effort, I think it would be possible to cause those rail arms to twist by way of pressure applied to the center legs. The wheels are also deceptive, and are yet another thing that looks sturdy but isn't. The plastic wheel itself is mostly hollow and is comprised of a plastic cylinder "shell" supported by plastic spokes radiating from the central point. Upon un-boxing, the wheel's "posts" (that you insert into the built-in portion of the frame's legs), seem more than large enough to get the job done. However, since one of my wheel's was broken, I got to see that those posts are actually just thick plastic sleeves covering narrow metal pegs. Yes, this "Ultimate in strength and durability, quality and structure" will support your heavy mattress and foundation with little metal legs roughly the diameter of a #2 pencil. Assorted oddities with my experience of this product: One of the wheels, as mentioned, was broken out of it's plastic "sleeve". And, the two screws that were supposed to affix the head and foot center-legs were shipped without engraved heads. Or, to put it simply, there is no flat-head or Phillips-head...there is only a rounded but otherwise unmarked surface. I'll admit, the screws do have a squared portion right below the head, and I assume this meant the screws were to be fixed in place and the legs then screwed -onto- them . However, this led to the fun task of trying to attach the cheap center-legs, to the shoddy rails, by hand-cranking the things onto screws that fit -badly-; the holes created by the overlapping rail arms are not square, and therefore not fitted for the included screws. So, do yourself a favor and find a different frame. Ultimately, I was pressed for time and had to buy a Legett and Platt frame from a furniture store local to me. The real kicker is that the L & P frame cost me $60, only about $13 more than the King's Brand frame, but was so much sturdier I found it comical. At the end of the day, there are other frames offered on Amazon and I'm sure some are of a quality greater than this King's Brand offering. Tomorrow I will be sorting out how to reconstruct it's packaging, and then I will return this piece-of-trash frame to Amazon.