Actually my words were quite a bit harsher than that. I was looking for modern looking shelving as a place to store our DVDs. This looked ideal on the website, and even though I really didn't want to spend over $100, I thought I might have found something spiffy. It had a decent rating, why not? Apparently, I need to learn to be more skeptical. It was a bit smaller than I had anticipated. I knew it was going to be short and I know that images online tend to make things look bigger than they really are, that is the case here. I was worried that my DVDs wouldn't fit on the shelves, but they fit rather snugly, thankfully! The vaneer isn't bad look at all, it was actually one of the nicer things. But the instructions... OH $DIETY THE INSTRUCTIONS!!!! I have never had to interpret worse instructions in my life. Firstly, there are a ton of pieces and they only decided to label one of each type, so I ended up having to waste time sorting. They totally left out a screw type (they only showed 3 in the instructions but really there's 4, which would've been nice to know ahead of time). There really aren't any written instructions and you're just left to interpret through diagrams only, which, really is highly inconvenient when you've gone through the trouble of putting glue on the dowels, screwing in the screws only to get to the last piece and find out it doesn't fit because nowhere does it mention that the spacing of the holes in the wood are not equidistant to each other- leading to taking it all apart once more to find out just how the holes are supposed to line up. My husband thought, initially, that I was crazy or merely one of those "Women who can't follow directions" until I showed them how the diagrams went from Step 5 to Step 7 and Step 6 was no where to be found. Even he got disgusted with it and ended up going to bed after fiddling with it until 3:00 am. So yeah, definitely the worst building experience I've ever had. This shelf will work provided you lay aboslutely everything out beforehand, and forget their glue, go buy some Gorilla Glue, but in my opinion it's really not worth the hassle, nor the price. Heck, I doubt it's even worth half of what it cost.