First up for those politically minded, this is NOT from China, but Malaysia.White plastic poles and nice light laminate pattern. Bright and cheery. The chipboard/particle board construction is typical for this grade of furniture. The tubes are cheap plastic, but sturdy enough as long as you don't try to overload the whole thing. You can cram it full of paperback books and it'll hold up on the lower levels. The top is good for another fifty pounds or so without worry, just don't torque the thing if you've got 150 pounds or more on it.
Instructions are decent enough pictographs, with typical "Engrish": "ceneter" instead of center for instance. I was a bit surprised to see that glue was needed for the dowels and edge on the center piece vs cams, but was pleasantly surprised to find a perfectly sized tube of Elmer's like glue included. Took about ten minutes to put together, including going through the instructions first to make sure I didn't have anything backwards. You could bang twelve of them out in an hour if you were trying.
The laminate is also typical. 5 of 6 sides covered, but the shelf bottoms are unfortunately not also laminated. There's a slight overlap on one "edge" of the shelves. Not very noticeable, but make sure to put them all at the "back" of the shelf for best viewing. Not necessary, it's minor, but worth noting ahead of time. You CAN unscrew the poles and repack the topmost section if needed. You CAN assemble it with just 2/3 shelves in place and you CAN leave the center divider out if you wanted to for some reason (it'd be less strong though for very heavy loads). You can NOT really stack them. It's unsafe with any of these kinds of shelves, but especially impractical with these do to the "pole hat" caps since they aren't flush.
The "bins" are fabric, cheap fabric wrapped on cardboard. Consider getting the model without them for a couple bucks less, but they're attractive enough in medium light and sturdy enough for filling with light things (not books).
Unlike the 99132 model, this one came with plastic "hat" caps for the poles, I like these better personally, but it adds a millimeter in height where the poles are and they ARE required.
For under two "Andrew Jacksons", it's tough to beat. I'm using it as an "island" to support a desk extension and it is superior to what I could build for the purpose for that price, even if my time was worthless.
Now how about a click on that "helpful" button?
It would be easy to spend two or three times as much on a little shelf, but this one is great for any number of light jobs. I use it to shelve my gardening books, putting seeds and supplies in the bins and a plant or two on top. It would easily be sturdy enough for a printer, or to hold plants. I ordered the product in early December as one of the gifts I was giving to my wife for Christmas and didn't get around to assembling until the first couple weeks in February (I procrastinate). Upon opening discovered that the top shelving part, aka the part with most visibility in an open room, was badly cracked and damaged. There was essentially no point in me putting the unit together at that point.
Instead of getting angry and stomping off to Amazon to write a 1-star review, I took to Furinno's website and contacted their support folks. Within a couple days they arranged for a replacement to the one piece no fuss, free shipping. Had the new part in 1-2 weeks, and put together the unit which is now nestled between our bed and the closet, perfect for holding the 10-15 books my wife keeps checked out from the library at any given time, along with the various iGadgets she needs to charge up before we go to work each day.
This is not an expensive piece of furniture, but it does the job well, and am very pleased with the outcome of the support personnel at Furinno.
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