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I bought two of these four years ago (at twice this price) and they are fantastic. I have moved once, so disassembled and reassembled them in the process. I use them as bookshelves which works great because there are no long unsupported stretches of shelving. I also put cube drawers from IKEA in some of the cubes. These are the better spacious 13" cubes, not the small 11" ones.
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https://www.walmart.com/ip/Better.../855859901
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What a cluster this was. First I was offered a refund straight off the bat but wanted to see if they would be able to send the second box. No joy with that and they wanted me to return it by Fedex and said I could have them pick it up. Got the label together but didn't have directions on how to get pickup, just said to drop off at Fedex which I didn't want to deal with and was told otherwise. Contact them for directions on pickup and was told it was not entered for pickup and they had to rework it and I should get some directs. Never saw directions after about a week. Contacted again they cancelled the return and just refunded it. so now I have half a shelf
I thought I would outsmart them and ordered two boxes in the rustic grey leftover color on the 3rd and 4th day of the deal and sure enough got two carton 1 of 2s. By that time someone had confirmed you could build a full set. All three boxes went to my parents house, who live nearby, but who were out of town over labor day weekend. Putting that thing together was the most difficult lego puzzle I've ever built, because I was too arrogant to ask anyone for help.
It turns out the tile floor was uneven enough to make it near impossible to build, as all the middle pieces are "floating" on loose dowels. This cube abomination had been designed by cheap sadists. Then as I am trying a different strategy, a piece fell down and snapped several dowels, I got very exasperated this had been taking too long of my time off, and opened up the extra box in the espresso color to get to the extra hardware.
Anyway, I finally put the damn thing together and raised it up in victory... except that I raised it up the wrong way. The thing had imperfections and nicks I had put to the "bottom" so when I raised it up they were all staring at me at the top of the cube.
I should have just put it back down and raised it up the opposite way. But no, I tried to roll it. not once, but twice. After the first time it got a little wobbly, but whatever, not a big deal. Well, when I rolled it over a second time the whole freaken demonic thing folded on itself and snapped.
I forgot to mention, I had spent the first day my parents were out breaking apart and throwing away the existing old bookcases in my parents house. So I had to put something back in the spot under penalty of my mother killing her youngest son.
So I did what any sane person would do, I went to Ikea and bought three smaller Kallax and probably spent double the price. Holy cow, they were smaller but as easy to build as expected with none of the floating dowels, these stayed snug and in place.
All the broken pieces and my pride went into my parent's garage, and so I ignored it for three weeks. Then I started calling Walmart and they would not budge. Finally as a last ditch attempt at not having to return the broken items I told them they had been opened by a relative by mistake and would need to be resealed, but no dice.
So I spent yesterday piecing together the torn up boxes and threw in all the broken pieces. There is no way those boxes are surviving the trip but whatever, all I can say is I've been humbled by stupidly designed furniture, lol...
The cherry on top is the event is immortalized on video cause it broke right in front of a security camera. If AI could put a shirt on my belly I would share here to share and further my shame, lmao...
Luckily return window is still open and customer service just offered to refund the whole amount without shipping back.
I'm in the Dallas, TX area if anyone has the other half they want to get rid of or want's to pickup my half. I have box 1 of 2 in white if that matters. I don't mind creating a "hybrid" monstrosity if you are trying to get rid of your half.