Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Winsome Martini Entertainment Bar

Winsome Martini Entertainment BarThis bar is pretty much what you'd expect -3 pieces of curved, black, tempered glass and some screw-together legs. It goes together easily -mostly just by hand, except for the nuts to keep the shelf-back pieces on -and it looks like 3 glass shelves with chrome tube between them when you're done.

Like most of this glass-and-tube furniture, the glass is held in place by pinching it between two tubes. The tubes are themselves held together by means of a threaded stud and a couple of nuts that have been welded to the inside the ends of each tube. For 8 of the 12 studs required to assemble this bar, the manufacture provides "long" studs which work fine. But for the last 4 they supply and instruct you to use a separate set of "short" studs. Depending on exactly where the nuts got welded into your tubes these shorter studs may or may not be long enough. None of mine were, but if I had rearranged the legs I could probably have gotten one or two to fit.

I just bought my own studs. It's an easy part to find at a hardware store, and they're only a few cents each; I don't understand why the manufacturer skimped out on the last 4 studs -the longer ones would have fit in those positions, and the price difference between 3" studs and 2" studs can't be significant compared to the wholesale cost of this item. Honestly the cost of stocking two different kinds of studs and writing instructions about how to use them probably costs more than just providing the longer studs in the first place.

Bear in mind that none of this affects the look of the piece; all of the flaws are internal. And assuming you get (or provide) long enough studs it's all perfectly sound structurally. So once you get it together there's not problem, just bear in mind you might need to make a trip to the hardware store to make that happen.

I did not attempt to get replacement parts from the manufacturer. For the $2 cost of additional studs it wasn't worth my time on the phone, waiting for parts, etc. Presumably they would have sent me another bag of longer studs if I called and bothered them about it.

I ordered this from Amazon through Stacks-and-Stacks Inc. out of California, USA. The delivery was a day late and parts were missing from my shipment such as legs to hold up the Martini bar set including ALL screws to put the Martini Bar together and an instruction booklet. When I called the third party company's Customer Service at "Stacks-and-Stacks" Inc. they told me they would put in a work order right away. Well i didn't hear from them again for another two weeks and they never sent my missing parts. Fed up, i decided to return the product and request a refund. They took another week and a half to even arrange a Fed-Ex pick-up date for the product which they wouldn't issue a refund until the product was shipped all the way back to California, USA. Please keep in-mind we're a military family currently residing in New Jersey, USA. Now it's an entire month later, they received their incomplete product back and we're still awaiting our refund. TWO THUMBS DOWN STACKS-AND-STACKS, CA, USA!!! Needless to say, they were unprofessional in the way they conduct their customer service as well as extreamly tardy on fulfilling customer requests.

In the future my family and I will AVOID ANY PURCHASES from this third party companyStacks-and-Stacks, CA, USA!!!

Martini Entertainment Bar (Black) (41.81"H x 47.05"W x 22.64"D)

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this looks gorgeous in my living room. I get tons of compliments on it and everybody can't believe it when i tell them the price. i've seen this bar go between $400-$500+ from other stores/vendors. It took my friend 30 min to assemble and that was a breeze. You won't regret it. great buy.

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Nice looking. Easy to put together. Seems sturdy.Definitely worth the money. Only complaint was 1 of the screws had no tread, but i was able to figure out a way to make it workable.

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When I purchased this bar, before thanksgiving, I was excited. I don't now what the shipper did, but when I started to put this thing together, it shattered into a million pieces. Very disappointed in this product.

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