I purchased this desk in September but left it in the box for a couple of weeks while I reorganized the area where I wanted to put it. So finally, I decided to put it together. The outside package/ box was very beat up with the seams of the box split and the corners smushed. There was a lot of extra packing tape put on after the fact to hold it together. I figured it was heavy so it probably got mangled a bit during shipping. So I continued to open the box and noticed a sticky liquid inside the box and a very strong smell of Maple Syrup! The desk parts are mostly well packaged in plastic and foam, so the syrup was mostly on the packaging, but this has to be the strangest thing I have found spilled in a box / especially since it was a desk and not a food order! So after cleaning up the syrup, I realized that there were a couple of direction sheets to put together the drawer and the tray for the power strip, but nothing on how to put the desk itself together. I did attempt to contact the seller, but being impatient, I decided to attempt to put it together on my own. Altogether, it took around an hour to build it and it was fairly easy to do. Even with the smushed outside packaging and the surprise maple syrup, the desk itself had no damage. I do think it would have taken less time to put together if the directions would have been included.
Nice desk, easy to put together
I purchased this desk in September but left it in the box for a couple of weeks while I reorganized the area where I wanted to put it. So finally, I decided to put it together. The outside package/ box was very beat up with the seams of the box split and the corners smushed. There was a lot of extra packing tape put on after the fact to hold it together. I figured it was heavy so it probably got mangled a bit during shipping. So I continued to open the box and noticed a sticky liquid inside the box and a very strong smell of Maple Syrup! The desk parts are mostly well packaged in plastic and foam, so the syrup was mostly on the packaging, but this has to be the strangest thing I have found spilled in a box / especially since it was a desk and not a food order! So after cleaning up the syrup, I realized that there were a couple of direction sheets to put together the drawer and the tray for the power strip, but nothing on how to put the desk itself together. I did attempt to contact the seller, but being impatient, I decided to attempt to put it together on my own. Altogether, it took around an hour to build it and it was fairly easy to do. Even with the smushed outside packaging and the surprise maple syrup, the desk itself had no damage. I do think it would have taken less time to put together if the directions would have been included.