IRIS USA 47 Quart Extra Large Stacking Storage Drawer, Plastic Drawer Organizer with Clear Doors for Bedroom, Closet, Gararge, Dorm and Office De-Clutter, Store Shoes and Clothes, 2-Pack, Black

UPDATE-20230206: Placed a new order to see if I have better luck.MESSAGE TO IRIS: I am willing to update/upgrade this review, should the recently-ordered drawers arrive with at least 75% of them intact. 75% is all I am asking. That's how low I am setting the bar. C'mon IRIS! I know you can do better.- The good: The IRIS Stacking Plastic Drawer System is a great product, each drawer comprised of the drawer itself and a cage of sorts into which the drawer slides in. A bit overpriced compared to other plastic drawer sets available onsite at B&M retailers but worth the premium in my opinion. On a practical level, they are great for being stackable (very common nowadays but nonetheless), translucent, and for having available a variety of sizes with the same look. The translucency allows you to have a quick idea of what’s inside upon simple visual inspection without having to open a particular drawer. The visual inspection can be done from 360-degrees around the drawers, since the cage of sorts into which the drawer slides in does not block the view from any of the sides. This is particularly useful if you need to have many of them, as it is my case, filled with a large variety of things accessible at a moment’s notice. On an aesthetic level, they are great for being available on various colors (white, blue, gray, and black) and for having a design that’s more compatible with other elements of your storage solutions, furniture and décor you might already own. Let me explain. The drawer’s front side is flat (not very common amongst plastic drawer sets), which allows for a greater visual compatibility with element of your room, as they are more likely to have flat surfaces as well, compared to having to match a particular curve style. In addition, the drawer’s front side allows for the addition of more creative decoration options, particularly since there is a small concentric inset on the front side’s surface, that lends itself to such purpose.- The bad: So why the one-star rating? Unfortunately, it all boils down to shipping packaging. The shipping packaging IRIS has chosen for their plastic drawer system is inadequate. It fails to provide enough protection. This causes a lot of breakage during shipping, as evidenced by other complaints in the comments/reviews section. In my case, I ordered 2 sets-of-2 of the large 47 quarts, for a total of 4 drawers. All the drawers came cracked, thus negating all the aesthetic benefits mentioned above. One of the drawers came broken to the point of being practically useless. IRIS had the word “fragile” printed on the thin cardboard box used for shipping. However, one thing is the theory of how dutiful shipping/warehousing employees throughout the distribution/delivery chain are supposed to handle fragile items, while something completely different is the way overworked employees are going to handle such items, not to mention transport is never smooth.- Conclusion: It doesn’t matter if a product was beautifully designed and built, if it is damaged by the time it reaches the consumer’s hands. In my case, I am returning mine and will be contacting IRIS to inquire about other shipping packaging options on a special order. My recommendation to IRIS is to upgrade the shipping packaging. First, tape each drawer’s front side to the corresponding cage’s front columns, to prevent the drawers from sliding in/out ever so slightly, thus reducing the chances of breakage resulting from such motions, which I am sure is one of the reasons why the edges of the drawer’s front panel break so often. Second get a bigger box and add some styrofoam edge protection to absorb the impacts warrantied to be generated during shipping. Hope this helps prospective buyers as well as IRIS. This product is a success as far as its functional/aesthetic design, which I would hate to see fail as a result of thoughtless shipping choices.

Overall, this is a good product, sturdy, smooth slide on the drawer, and nice translucent drawers. Unfortunately, my delivered item arrived with cracks/ small breaks on all the drawers. I almost kept them because they still functioned but I just couldn't stand looking at the cracks. I didn't opt to reorder a replacement because I did not want to risk waiting another week to get damaged items. I saw this issue in other reviews but I purchased the product anyways because it was a good price. I really hope they fix this issue.

Cheap & weird opening handle

These are great overall, but there is no hand hold in the front of the drawer so they are tricky to open.

These are really good. My problem is I can't seem to get them to arrive intact. The lip at the front of the drawers (that keeps them from sliding out of the back of the frame) was cracked on 4 out of the 6 that I have received. At this price, instant return for replacement.