I looked at several multiple guitar stands and this one just seemed the sturdiest and most simple to be honest! Reviews were generally good so i ordered one!
Now firstly, it comes flat packed as you'd expect and you have to put it together, this was not an "easy" task as such and took a bit of grunting and twisting to get the holes lined up well enough to get all the nuts and bolts in, although once it's done it really is very solid, just a shame the holes didn't quite line up enough on mine to make it a complete breeze! I'd imagine this varies though and some go together just great.. i'm still glad i bought it, even with this build quality issue.
The second thing i was slightly disappointed about it the rubbery padding, it's quite spongy, and although it does the job of protecting the guitars i can see over time that it will thin and flatten until there is a small layer of foam between the metal frame and the guitar.
The third small issue i had which could be looked upon as a positive is that the rubber is incredibly grippy! If you put your guitar in willy nilly, it will just stand at pretty much any angle you put it in at! So to get it to sit in the neck slots properly you have to play about with how the bottom of the guitar is sitting on the base of the framework! But this also means the guitars aren't going to suddenly flop out and snap a headstock :)
However... i modified mine because i have a hang up about rubber/spongy stuff damaging my guitar finishes (my collection is worth a fair ammount and not something i want to risk damaging for the sake of a guitar stand. So i bought a load of bandages and basically mummified it! I literally wrapped layers of bandages around all of the foam padding, probably 5 or 6 (i think i used 7 packs of 3" bandage), pretty tight layers! Now this worked well in several respects..
It meant the padding the guitars sit on was firmer, no more worries for me about the padding wearing through now! :D It also means the rubber is no longer grippy as the guitars are only in contact with cotton bandages, now with this, the result is that when you lay a guitar into the stand it automatically slides quite firmly and snuggly INTO the stand under their own weight, you don't even have to push the neck into the slot!! I'm confident that they aren't going to fall out sideways and this appears to just be a natural trait of the way the stand is designed, that it encourages the guitars to lean "into" the stand. And of course, i don't have to worry about the "possible" damage to my guitrs finishes, which may not even happen but better to be safe than sorry :)
All in all, with my modification, i couldn't want a better stand, it doesn't look AS great as if it's left unbandaged, but it does look kinda cool in it's own funny way!