I just got this easel but I am already in love. We have been using some really cheap tent-pole style easels for years now but after trying this one I plan to switch them all out!This model is heavier than the cheaper tent-pole style easels (which have no top clip bar or support bar). We plan on shipping this one for conferences, so it does increase shipping but the stability is so worth it!The top bar is super easy to put on and off. You lift up a small red lever and push the small piece of plastic covering the opening on top of the easel and simply drop in the top bar and flip down the red lever.The support pegs that hold the flip-chart have notches to stabilize the chart. I find that to be a huge improvement over the other easels that just have a flat peg to rest your poster/sign/flip-chart on.The legs on mine telescope nicely. You could use it on a table top or on the floor, which is nicer than my nonadjustable tent-pole easels.It just feels so firm on the ground, it’s really reassuring if your using it on an aisle at a conference where people are walking by and may bump into it. Unlike the tent-pole easels which fall over with the slighted graze of a coat sleeve.It does have a much larger footprint than expected, so the one downside is that if your floorspace is limited this easel may take up too much space. I think for most spaces it would work, including the 10’x10′ conference booth where we plan to set it up.Mine was sold by Audio-Visual Direct and fulfilled by Amazon. It was shipped quickly, arrived on time, and was packaged very well (box inside of a box, so you have the option to keep the manufacturers box for storage). The shipping box could have been smaller, but it works better for me because I can reuse it to ship all of my marketing materials and the easel to Hawaii and back. [...]