I bought 3 of these types of shoe racks from another store.  When I got the racks -- I tried everything from Monster glue to taping the silver sticks together and NOTHING worked.  I thought, I am always receiving e-mails from Wayfair -- lets see what they are about -- I will start small.  Well, bust my britches!  These shoe racks are FANTASTIC!!!  I love them -- so sturdy, did not take a genius to put together and was definitely cost effective.  LOVE IT!  LOVE IT!!!