Assembly is a nightmare. Does not snap together, flimsy. I had it together and started putting items on it, and the shelf unlatched and everything fell on the floor. Will use it as two separate units, not one tall unit. I would NOT recommend. Very disappointed. Although the price was good, it was still too much for what I got. Poor quality and workmanship.

I’ve bought and assembled at least a dozen similar shelving units by myself in 60 minutes, but with this rack I needed an assistant to hold posts and beams while I worked to attach beams to the posts. It took 90 minutes with two of us working on it most of that time. The long posts are not the same as in the photos in the Sam’s Club ad or the drawings on the first page of the enclosed Assembly Instructions because the bottom two slots are missing on the long posts so the bottom shelf is over 5 inches above the floor. The post slots are not a press fit with the rivets so the rivets easily slide into the tapered ends of the slots without needing a mallet and during assembly rivets often slide back out of the tapered slot ends and require reattaching beams to posts. The steel material is very thin gauge. Each short post placed on top of a long post has a bottom flare out over the long post that makes it easy for the top posts to shift position on the bottom posts during assembly. This is a cheap imitation of the original Gorilla Rack.

Bought 3, returning 2. There obviously was an error in manufacturing, as the slot-holes are too large for the rivets, thus they do not seat securely, and assembly can be frustrating. WARNING! If you are successful in securing the top 3 foot section to the lower 4 foot section, you will have a high risk potential for injury at some point. My original intent was to use all three as the 7' high shelves which is what they are promoted as, but because it is made to assemble as two parts, one 4' and one 3', I can use those and will thus keep 1 of the 3 that I bought, just because it will take too much time to repackage it. Lastly, the guage of the metal posts is more lightweight than I expected, making the advertised load capacity suspect, in my opinion.

Pretty much junk. I've put many shelves together over the years, these are by far the worst. This company could spend just ten cents to make assembly easier but they don't. I bought 2, will keep the one that I finally got put together, it might be good to store some lighter weight items. The other I'll return. If these were on sale for 100% off I'd still pass.

I bought this a few weeks ago and sure wish I did not. Hopefully I can save you a real waste of money and more importantly time. The manufacturing is so poor and cheap that the shelf supports mostly do not "snap" in as stated in the instructions, most simply sit in place and pop right back out when the unit bends as it does often given the very cheap, thin metal used. After some frustration, I got this all put together as specified. There is no way it will hold 600 lbs per shelf and 3600 lbs on the unit as advertised on the box. Once I started using it, loading one shelf with a few hundred pounds, the shelf material broke, the shelf is actually made of some cheap osb or worse covered with a thin plastic laminate. I had thought these shelves were a solid plastic. Now that I have this setup, its not worth the time and trouble to disassemble and make the several hour round trip back to Sams club to return. I certainly would not waste the time building this junk again. I will use it for a few lighter items. Probably a few hundred pounds on the whole unit will be ok. Good luck!

I bought 4 of these and went to assemble this morning,it shows a rubber mallet but mine went together so loosly they would not stay together to stack the second set on and get it to stay togather.JUNK,,or bad design,I threw it all back in the box and returned them all,By the way,I am a contractor and can build anything,These were just plain no good.

We bought these shelves years ago and the first try putting them together was a bit hard. You need two people. But we have purchased more and they get easier to put together. Our shop looks awesome and they hold heavy items. We have had them 5 or 6 years and look like new. We are about to get these for our daughter and son-in-law's shop.

Come in broken shelf

The shelves themselves are not metal, they are laminated press board LDF. As a result the units are very heavy and both that I ordered were absolutely mangled during shipping. The first package I opened had all of the shelves completely broken and the second package had the shelves’ corners all damaged but at least they were intact. Zerooooo stars, YGWYPF.

I have purchased and assembled numerous shelving units in my time and this is probably the worst unit I have come across. I bought it for the dimensional sizing and shelf load. I guess I should have done more research on the quality factor. DO NOT try to assemble by yourself. The braces constantly fall loose as you try to put it together and I had to actually wire-tie the connections together to get them to stay long enough for it to be assembled. The designer of this should have a lobotomy so that they could never think up something this poorly designed again.