When I pay over $200 for a decorative fan vs. the $50 imports readily available at Wal-Mart, I expect fine-furniture quality. This fan instead reminded me of something from a third-world country that you would find in Cost Plus for far, far less. This post of the fan and fan motor were scuffed and scratched. There were visible grinding marks on the base and it looked like it had been repainted. The wires on the cage were bent around the perimeter and I had to straighten them. And a part that secures the fan to the base was missing.We saw the fan in a local store and the quality appeared far superior, so I'm hoping this was either a sample defect or a badly refurbished return and not representative of the quality of all Deco Breeze products. If the latter is the case, Amazon should stop carrying them immediately.