Bought for my 85th birthday party in August. Used once. Today, when I wanted to use it again for the 90th batch for another relative, I took it out of the case I keep it in, and part of a leg fell off and scattered. You can't take it back, you can't give it back either. We switched to this tripod from a Best Buy tripod that we've had for a number of years, so we felt confident having multiple cameras on it. So much for that. Tip - keep going!