Loved ease of assembly

I love the look of the product, as well as the ease of assembly, but everything relating to the ball joint at the top is poorly manufactured

product came well packaged with each piece clearly marked and accounted for, as well as in such a way that it made losing pieces difficult, however despite the clear marking on each part the assembly manual did not take advantage of this, and even made the mistake of calling for the same part twice, and leaving certain important instructions out entirely, such as how you're supposed to screw the various poles into each other in ascending numerical order.

This wouldn't be an issue - as the assembly should be fairly intuitive - if the pole parts worked as they should

To be fair, I would say the quality is "better than average" quality...but the base knocks the entire unit as a A++