I received this as part of the Tried and True program. The design of this is very pretty, and from far away it looks great, but up close you can see a lot of defects with the paint, it had a lot of blemishes for which i attached some pictures. it was pretty easy to put together, i'm hoping some spot paint marker can fix the blemishes, its as if the paint was fresh and then it was packed and the cardboard blemished the paint. the bench itself has a flex or bounce so it can be good as it doesn't feel so stiff or hard to sit on, but i'm not so sure it can really hold up to 500 pounds at least without causing some bending or damage, we tested two people on it combined up to 300 pounds and it held up pretty good, overall it's ok.