There's nothing at all wrong with this curtain rod. It works exactly as expected, and had all the parts to install. It looses a star because the instructions are just.....obnoxious. 

Reading through the service manual for my car is more clear than these. It doesn't even seem like they were poorly translated from another language or anything like that. Hanging curtains is easy, but these made it seem like I was about to build a spaceship.