Overall, the item if pretty good and the cats seem to really love it.  I would say that the material used is really cheap and we had to push about a dozen staples back into the board due to almost falling out.  We keep our cats claws well clipped but it still won't take them long to tear through a ultra-thin covering material.  For the money we paid, I didn't expect a $300 cat-tree and thus... we are please with the purchase.