Target Marketing Systems Montego Buffet

I purchased this to do a coffee bar in my dining room (I saw it on Pinterest). I put a wire basket shelf with cup holders above it and it is really cute and handy to have everything together and off my kitchen counters. Buffet was very well made. Easy to put together with just a little reading and basic tool knowledge.

When this arrived, I took it out of the packaging and immediately noticed multiple chips and scrapes in the material. Luckily most of them were on the inside, however a few are on the front door. It's pretty cheap material and the color has a red tint to it...does not look "expresso" to me. I wouldn't recommend this if you are looking for a nice quality Buffet. It gets the job done if you are looking to spend less money.

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Received the package just before 3pm this afternoon. After reading all of the reviews here, I first unpacked all the pieces and then reviewed the directions and checked the parts. Both the box and styrofoam are cheap and flimsy, so I was surprised to find that none of the pieces were damaged. All the wood parts are clearly labeled with their part letters. The screws and other various parts are packed together in just a few bags with numerous part-letter stickers on each bag, but as long as you can count and match the parts to the picture chart in the directions it's easy to figure out which parts are which. The directions themselves are more pictures than words, but again, easy to understand. I had this completely built in less than an hour! The only part that I even had to think twice on was the two strips that go across the bottom and middle of the front; they have cams & wood dowels closer to one edge than the other and it matters which edge is up. My only real complaint is the glue on the part-letter stickers they could use something easier to remove!!

Overall, from unpacking to finished product, I am very happy with this buffet!

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I had hope for this decently-priced buffet as I was planning on using it for a bar cabinet, and hope continued as it arrived in a relatively-timely manner (given the shipping was free). Too bad I opened the box...

First of all, as soon as I opened the box tiny bits of styrofoam scattered my apartment. Apparently this stuff was supposed to be padding the pieces of my purchase, but I guess having to clean up confetti is expected, right? Now time to inspect the pieces inside the box: so far, no real problem. I get [what I thought was] 1/3 of the way done and realize that some of wood pieces, which are black, had scuff marks all over them (namely, the visible part of the top of the buffet). Deciding to further inspect, I see that every visible piece with any kind of detailing (namely, the doors) has the paint chipped off where the corners join. Lovely, just lovely. Add in 5+ hours of construction time thanks to instructions that make IKEA look like detailed geniuses and you have yourself a fantastic experience.

Never making this mistake again, and you shouldn't either. I could've got something better at a yard sale. /rant

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I will start this review with you don't always 'get what you pay for'.....sometimes it's less.

We are professional cabinetmakers, have been for over 30 yrs. If I can include a picture I will, but suffice it to say we design and produce some of the most high-end cabinets and furniture still made in the USA. Sometimes, I just need something that will 'do the trick' for a space in my home, and don't want to have the expense of buying my own product. This was the case hereI just needed a printer stand with storage for a craft area. We have had quite a bit of experience with IKEA pieces and other self assemble pieces with kids going to college, etc. Not to mention (although I already did) we are PROFESSIONALS in this area. Sohere is the review:

The parts showed up in the box well packed and on time. Upon opening the box, I got a good dose of what I call the China stench, just such a chemical-laden bunch of fumes from the box. Hoping this is not what your air is like in China, but it wouldn't surprise me. It did dissipate rather quickly, and unlike a few other Made in China things I have purchased in the past few years, it wasn't something that had to air out on the patio or in the garage for a few days to keep it from killing you. Second impression: There are A LOT of parts. Not to worry, there are instructions and we are professionals :)

This is NOT a piece you could assemble on your own. I'm just sayin'.....this is a 2 person project. 2 people with the patience of Job.

You will need wood gluestandard Elmers type of glue would suffice as well. A #3 Phillips head screwdriver. We also ended up needing our cordless drill, small phillips tips, a clamp and a wrench.

What I found to be the biggest draw-back of this piece was that the machining was sloppy, making the assembly fittings either too snug or too loose, and the fact that the cam-lock assembly fittings were SO CHEAP and such a soft and low grade metal that if you twist it just a little too hard the fitting itself just starts to open up and will not hold the male counterpart to draw the pieces together. Also, where the holes are for the dowels the holes were loose, not so much round as slightly a 'wallered-out oval' so the dowels do not stay perpendicular to the piece they are inserted in. If you are not using some sort of wood glue to help hold them in place, they will fall out when you try to assemble the piece, and the cheapo cam-lock assembly fittings may or may not actually lock onto the male part to hold it together. In the end, the glued dowels are the only real chance you have that this piece will stay together at all.

It took 2 (sometimes 3) of us a full 2 1/2 hours to put this thing together, and at a few points we were really ready to just send it back. For instancethere is a piece that runs horizontally across the back that hold the thing together as well as connects the 2 back pieces together. I'm gonna tell ya right nowjust forget putting in the camlock bolts into this piece and just go with the dowels, b/c the camlock bolts do not line up correctly, and this is where you will need pliers or a wrench to jerk these pieces back out, b/c one you have screwed them in, you cannot reverse that process.

Alsoput the door hinges onto the face frame before you put it on the cabinet, b/c otherwise you have to try to stuff yourself into a little black space to screw them on, and if you are not a contortionist you may find this difficult.

The overall *quality* is about what I expect, however you will never move this piece from one home or apt to another, I would be shocked if it would survive a move. Is it an OK printer stand? Sure. It's going to do what I need it to do. Since they do not give you any indication on how big the bottom opening isit is 8 inches high and the doors are 19 1/4 inch high. I have some baskets that look pretty cute on the bottom area, and there is an adjustable shelf you can put in the section where the doors are.

I have not purchased anything else from this company, and do not plan to. If I did not have space restrictions for the space where I am using this for a printer stand, I probably would have picked something else. Or just given up and sent this back.

For the record, my son solved the "World's Most Difficult Puzzle" in less time. Seriously.

Good Luck!

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