I bought two of these benches. Although the benches were very easy to put together there seems to be no pride in workmanship anymore. Granted it wasn't a thousand dollar bench but to me that doesn't mean that you give people a poor quality item. There were scratches and chips that had been visibly painted over as if the consumer is not going to notice and this was evident on both benches. My hubby and I are probably the only ones who will be able to notice the many defects but to me it's just shoddy workmanship and if I were the owner of the company that makes this bench I would be ashamed to peddle this product on an unaware consumer.  It saddens me that we can no longer trust that what we are buying is of good quality. Therefore to avoid shipping them back we are going to scrape the unsanded portions, fix the chips and repaint them. I am giving it three stars solely for the ease of assembly