First, for the price, this is an excellent product.  It is made in Vietnam, and I'm guessing from the smell, they have LOTS of insect issues, you are blasted with the overwhelming smell of bug spray on opening the box.  The wood looks nice, but as others have noted, there are lots of minor issues, scrapes, splinters, holes drilled in interesting places, etc.  But still, with all that I feel it's a good deal.

Now on assembly, the pictures are great, but not so great.  Before you say bad words and disassemble the whole thing to put the hinged seat on, lay the unit on it's back, prop the seat at an angle and loosely install the far right hinge screw and the far left hinge screw.  After that, everything else fairly lines up and you can install the remaining screws.  No bad words, no taking apart but for certain nothing like the directions.

Two 65+ one in a wheelchair and we managed it in about 45 minutes.  So it's not difficult, the the parts are hefty and awkward.