Ok, we have all seen appalling, chipboard/pressed particle board veneer bookcases - either we had them, or bought them for kids, or seen them - from Ikea, to wherever.These are worse. Why?1) The packaging - seems... ok but.. when you open it up - some of the panels and edges are BENT. Not just.. out a little bit, but significantly.2) Testing if you can gently bend them back (it is cheap mild steel we are talking here) slightly in a section cracks the paint. The paint is micron thin just about, and not resilient at all. I didnt bother bending any other part, just carefully tried to assemble the rest of it. I gave up in the end - having bought two, glad I did not open the other one.3) They are appallingly designed, in terms of how one needs to put them together. The Quality Assurance checking on them is laughable.4) The instructions are poor. One can figure it out, but they are poor instructions, and not overly well printed or clear.5) The holes drilled in the item are variable. The cardboard back to the unit is friable, and not very high quality (can you get high quality cardboard? yes..)6) The design is incompetent. The engineering behind this is poor. Whoever thought it would be appropriate to have little plastic press studs to fix structural parts of the design, and also to hold the cardboard backing on should have been set on fire, and then jumped on, buried in peat, and then dug up to be slapped about a bit. Absolutely moronic idea this.7) The fittings are poor too - the plastic press fit things are impossible nearly to use - and coupled with the laughable quality being so variable in terms of the holes for them to fit into, it is mind numbingly ridiculous that these were chose to use over screws. Ridiculous.Overall? I am returning them, even though they want a stupid amount for returning them. The firm selling them has a fairly smooth returns process - but.. honestly, why not select a better item to sell, so you can not waste your resource and time processing returning items which are not fit for purpose? The buyer for the firm should have been given a glasgow kiss for signing off on this for the firm to carry.Cannot. Express. Enough. How. Shoddy. This. Is.