I ordered this Oct 28, 2014 and it is still going strong.  I use it at the end of my bed mainly to give my little dogs something to jump on to get from the bed to floor or floor to bed.  My bed is pretty tall and it has taken them jumping on it, several times every day, with their little sharp claws and you could never tell looking at it.   I also use it for putting on my shoes in the morning.  I wear dark jeans a lot and one of the arms has become a little tinged with blue so you can definitely see that I have been using it, but it looks good with a little throw blanket over it.

I'm also not a small person and stood on it one time to clean an overhead fan and I could hear the fabric stretch and pull so I did learn a lesson from that.  As long as I don't stand on it, it's just fine :)

I would definitely buy this again.