The desk works for me. It has a generously-sized work surface, and the hand crank raises and lowers to the perfect height. It took "forever" to assemble. *NOTE TO MANUFACTURER: YOUR INSTRUCTIONS SUCK! I had to read the tiny schematics with a magnifying glass.kidding. No kidding! I persevered and finally got it assembled in about 6 hours a LONG time for a product with few parts. Shoppers+ offered me a $10 credit for some factory damage to the surface (see photos)

Desk was easy to assemble, but one stupid thing the manual doesn't tell you is that you have to unscrew the 3 little screws in the metal cylindrical bits at 3 points across the crank bar in order to extend the bar to the proper length of the desk. Once you figure that out it's pretty smooth sailing. The other thing is that the screw holes for the table top in the middle for support are on the opposite side of where they should be, so I had to just make my own holes. The other thing that's been kinda bugging me is that the weight capacity for this thing doesn't seem to apply to once the desk is cranked up to standing. For some reason, now that I have 2 monitors, a laptop, a very light keyboard and mouse, a cell phone, a power brick, a power bar, and some cables on a rack mounted under the table, whenever I put the slightest bit of pressure to lean on the table it starts to descend and the crank slams into the underside of the desk. If I don't touch the desk it doesn't descend, but if I put my wrists on it, I need to use the crank to brace the desk from descending on its own, which leaves me worried about the crank getting destroyed if I accidentally lean my elbow on the desk. I highly doubt all of that stuff gets anywhere close to 150 lbs. I dunno if I did something wrong, but maybe that is just how it is with a manual crank.

Overall, the desk feels really solid. As it should, with the number of screws it takes to put it together! As others have mentioned, not all the screw holes were correctly located. I'd definitely recommend having a drill on hand. Go slow with the screws since they don't seem to be made of a very high-quality steel. The crank handle works well but feels a little loose For the price, this is a great buy!

Was nice and easy to install, although as other reviewers have mentioned, there are a couple holes in the wrong place that I had to drill myself. Desk adjusts up and down smoothly with no issues.

It's a good standing desk. Don't my the manual crank at all. Nice size.

The legs and cross beam are quite stable and the height adjusting works very smoothly. Table top is as pictured. The different connection points could be better engineered, and there could be fewer pieces in the table top.