I bought six of these chairs, we received them in three well packed boxes, no damage, no missing parts. They are solid well built chairs, as others have stated here the stain is very dark. We are using them with a dark walnut table and they look great with it, if you have a lighter colored table unless you want a lot of contrast these may not work. I am a professional woodworker and it took me roughly  fifteen minutes per chair by myself to assemble them. A couple of assembly notes, pay attention to the bolt lengths and make sure to use them in the correct locations and don't over tighten them. Also to avoid wobble install hardware slightly loose, place the chair on a hard flat surface and put some weight on it then tighten the bolts.These are comfortable to sit in and hopefully we get years of use out of them.