*RE: Farberware All-purpose 5 tier Household Shelves* Having bought many "you can assemble this without tools !!!" products in my lifetime, NEVER have I seen anything as shoddy as these 'shelves'. Actually, calling them shelves is a bad joke. Cheap metal poles and plastic components. You need to have the manual dexterity of an octopus to put them together. And you DO need at least a mallet to make the pieces hold together securely. And the shelves? Nothing but thin sheets of plasticized fabric that won't hold anything of any weight. I am shocked and appalled that Farberware put their name on this piece of excrement. I will never buy anything from them again. User's recommendation: don't buy this, they are not 'shelves', they are crap.