Upon assembly I found some of the rack rails were broken, and there was a slight dent in one side. 

Pre-seasoning went well, but I started having issues upon first use. The smoker worked fine for about an hour, but then I found it had thrown an error (Err2). It appeared that the main heating element had turned off, and the secondary element was in overdrive. So I unplugged the unit for a min, and started the process again. It ran good for 45 min and then threw the same error. This process went on for the next few hours while the meat was being smoked.

This smoker is only usable with constant supervision to watch for errors. The reason I chose an electric smoker was so that I did not have to constantly tend to it.