Lifetime Outdoor Storage Deck Box (Open Box)

This was formerly a five-star review..now it is one-star. The top lid is made of a very cheap grade of plastic, apparently without UV stabilizers, and so the chemical plasticizers have apparently begun evaporating out of the plastic and it then it started to shrink. As the shrinkage continued, the screws connecting the metal framing strip at the front of the lid got ripped out of the holes in the lid. With more than 40 years living and recreating in sunny Florida, I have never seen a poorer example of plastics engineering for outdoor products. I expected my kid's cheap plastic outdoor toys to disintigrate after a few years -- but all of them lasted longer than this. CLEARLY DEFECTIVE. Now what? I can apparently have the lid replaced under the 10 year warranty, but will I have to do that year-after-year? Dear Lifetime, please make sure that your plastics engineering team sees this review, as well as my excellent original review. This problem is on them and your reputation is being ruined. ====================ORIGINAL FIVE-STAR REVIEW================= Headline: Excellent design -- instructions could be better. The box itself is great. Very solid design and construction. There were several places in the instructions where it wasn't immediately clear which fasteners should be used, and I found myself reading and re-reading until it was clear. This is a minor complaint and it was partly on me because I was in a hurry while building it. The one most important thing to note is that you MUST use a socket wrench on the four 'dimpled' nuts that hold the hinges to the box. The thread-locking feature of these nuts requires a lot of torque to tighten them.