The stand is well packaged and comes with a mount and hardware for monitor mounting. The air piston is pretty aggressive as it should be, to raise 45 lbs. as designed … that’s a good thing! The stand feels beefy but does not include a carry-bag which is a slight bummer at this price point. Gator makes a dedicated bag for this stand which includes a pocket for the mount, but we intend to leave the mount on the monitor so this is likely to be of minimal benefit… Good news however is that the Amazon Basics speaker stand bag works perfectly and is very reasonably priced for holding one stand w/out the mount. UPDATE: We have bought six of these stands so far and use them w/both 65” Vizio and 65” Toshiba TV’s.