I bought the Linkstar Softbox SLB-4545 for Camera Flash Gun. The price was excellent. It arrived well packaged and so intact. I removed the various parts from the packaging and began assembling the softbox. I have never wrestled with an octopus but, after having figured out how to fit the spring arms into the fabric of the softbox, I felt that I had. I had gone onto YouTube, hoping to find a video explaing the softbox assembly but there was nothing useful to be found. The trick is to place the ring head in the aperture of the softbox and then place the spring arms inside the softbox and attach them to the (in situ) ring head, then fit the outer legs into their respective fabric tubes at the edge of the softbox hood. There are two black velcro patches forming two of the arm retaining tubes - pull these out to their full extent. This gives a little more leeway in fitting the arms, then push the velcro strips back into their original place. It killed an hour. I like the shape of the softbox, rectangular, so I can shape the light. The metalwork forming the head is supplied with an additional 1/4" Whitworth scre, so it will enable a Pocketwizard radio flash trigger to be mounted behind the flash. Nice touch. Great kit but please save others the grief that I had by placing a video of assembling the softbox on YouTube. The second time of assembling it is, of course, quick and easy to do I hope this is useful.