It’s a good product. Makes it so much easier to get the pole of the umbrella into the stand. The wind at the beach can be so bad that it literally pulls your umbrella right out of the sand. It embarrasses the hell out of me to have to run after my umbrella and chase it down the beach. This really does keep it in place. I was torn between the plastic screw like one and this one. Happy I went with this type as it is easy to get it into either wet or dry sand. I actually have a half tent/ umbrella