I think the desk is well worth the money.  I paid a person 50..00 to put it together for me as I am 81 years old and could never of put that together.   But it is beautiful.                                                                   Everything was fine till he got to the top of the desk and it was squashed on the left rear corner.  I don't know if anything can be done about it, but I am not having the guy taking it apart.