The exterior packaging was quite damaged when this came off the truck, corner crushage. So I was pretty sure it was toast and I would be making phone calls to a call center, but i was totally wrong. A secondary carton inside with all types of fitted foam protected all the parts.
Assembly was pretty straight forward and if you have built out furniture this will not be too difficult. The instructions say two people are needed, but I assembled it by myself watching TV in a little over an hour.
For what I paid for this stand I am very pleasantly surprised with its quality. The drawers are much solider than some other furniture I have purchased at the big box Scandinavian outfit.
Holds my flat screen, blue ray, DVD/VCR, and all my component stereo parts (Receiver, Tape Deck & 6-Disk CD player) with ease.
Totally recommend.
