They came assembled and stacked together so I'm glad that I didn't have to do any work. They're lighter in weight than i expected, but heavy duty at all but for what I'm using it for, it should be OK. The only thing I didn't like was that it appears to have scratches on the top side of several of these stands and that could be from poor packaging. They were stacked together but there wasn't any padding or Styrofoam in between each to protect it during transit. I'm going to have them outside and they're going to get dirty anyway, so I'm not really mad about that, but just pointing it out. Now if I had decided to use these for parties or presentation of things then that would be different.