I purchased 2 hall trees.  The first on went together without a hitch.  Loved it.  The pre drilled dowel holes in the 2nd one didn’t line up and caused cracking in a shelf.  My husband is very handy and was able to drill new holes for the dowels to make it work and repair the shelf.  I would have been out of luck if it was just me putting the thing together and would have returned it.