I’m not going to return it...

I’m not going to return it, but it arrived a bit damaged on ¾ corners. The wood doesn’t seem well finished in general. It’s kind of scratchy. It looks nice, and these are I guess nitpicky things. It seems kind of like there was no quality control. It was packaged well, and there was no way the corners could have been damaged like this in shipping. About the letters: the gold ones are a bit browner than I expected. It’s fine, but I was expecting them to be more cheery. You do have to cut the words out which was a bit confusing to me as all the regular letters came precut. It’s fine. I was happy to only have to cut out a few things. It was just odd. Another odd thing is that it came with one drawstring bag for the letters. There’s no way all of them would fit in that one bag and stay separated, so it’s confusing as to why they bothered to include one at all if they weren’t going to provide enough for each separate color/type. One last thing: It fits a bit too snug in the stand, and it almost seems like I’m scratching it when I put it in there. It fits the best on the two sides that the lines are going vertically on (so the words would be sideways when I put it in there like that) which is not what we’re going for. I know these are small things, but they detracted from my overall experience. Knowing this, I wouldn’t give this as a gift, nor was I planning to. I bought it for myself which is why I’m willing to overlook these things and keep it. I wanted a functional, double sided letter board, and that’s what I got. Albeit, with shoddy craftsmanship, but I guess it was only like twenty bucks. From far away, you won’t even be able to tell.

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