I just put this together this afternoon. It is relatively easy to assemble once you figure which end should be upwards on the whitish plastic connectors. After that, it is quick and easy. The shelves were in thier own box packed within a perfectly sized packing box. Thus, no shipping damage. My only complaint is there wer a bunch of unidentified round plastic pieces I presumed would fit on the top of the vertices corner tubes. Nope. I threw them away and bought a bunch of 7/8th inch black rubber chair leg things and put them on. As they wer about 1/8 inch too large I put some Gorilla glue in the bottom of the black things and will let that expand and set overnight. These shelves are very well built and covered in a thick layer of naked black enamel and will last a lot longer than my remaining years (73 years old). Thank you Wayfair.