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4.5
A week ago, this item was priced at around $100 I believe. I definitely was about to buy it seeing all the great reviews. But one reviewer said she bought it for $68 at Walmart. I looked i t up on Walmart's website and she was right! I feel that since this has so many awesome reviews on Amazon, that the price is getting jacked up unnecessarily from third-party sellers. (Right now it's priced between $166- $250.) I suppose it makes sense to be more expensive, since this item is 75 pounds and would be costly to ship. But going from $100 to $166-250 within a week doesn't make sense. If you can see if your local Walmart has one in stock, I suggest you buy it there.Onto my review of this item. I'm 8 months pregnant and I recently got this for my nursery. If you are a mother you might be interested in my experience with this.I had to get a store associate to bring this to the register for me. It's huge and you won't be able to put it in a regular cart. The next dilemma I had was how I was going to bring this inside my house, alone. So I opened the box in my car and brought in the pieces one by one inside. If you get it delivered to your door, then you should do the same.As for assembly, it was simple enough as long as you carefully read the instructions. One part I struggled with was getting the center partitions to stick in to that thick side. But if you place the thick side against a wall, it's so much easier!Some of the instructions don't match the current state of this storage unit, as if there was a change to the manufacturing process and that's not reflected in the instructions. For example, it says, "Hammer in the dowels until there's 1 1/4" left". But really, you put the dowel in the hole (no hammering) and there's 1" of dowel left. In other words, I didn't need to use a hammer at all even though the instructions warn repeatedly about not over-harmmering in the dowels.There's also these end caps that are supposed to cover the exposed bolt heads. They're useless. They don't stay on. They might with gravity for the top four bolts if you use the shelf vertically-- but they don't stay firmly in place so there's no point in using them.There was also some glue/paint that marred a corner of my shelf. However, I just took the flat end of a scissors covered in a few layers of a moistened rag to scratch it off.Other than that, I really love how this turned out. It feels solid to me. (By the way, the manual says that in the horizontal position, it'll support 150 pounds on top.) The top and bottom are very thick particle board and I don't think it'll get destroyed in a move. I've had other items get destroyed while moving, mainly due to the support being a thin piece of cardboard at the back holding the sides together. But with this, the design feels solid.The color I got is "weathered". I think this colors looks the more natural compared to the "espresso" finish.I would've given this item 5 stars because my only issues are cosmetic... but the price of this item currently on Amazon is just insane.Lastly, the storage collapsible boxes I bought for this was $5.67 apiece and was sold by Better Homes and Gardens as well at Walmart.
