Although we like the look of these stools, they are Chinese made with poor quality. I would venture to say there is no quality assurance department. When putting these bar stools together we tried to make the holes on seat line up with the holes on the frame. We tried to the point screws were beginning to strip out. Instead of trying to return these mail order items which is more than likely a nightmare, we had to ream out and drill holes in the frame to line up with the holes in the seats. Of 4 stools ordered not 1 had the correct hole placements in the frames to line up with the seats. Being only 4 screws per stool this should of taken about 30 minutes, it ended up taking over 2 hours because of how out of square the frames were from the seat. The only reason this gets 2 stars is because my wife really likes how they look.