I see a couple reviews where people call this stand lightweight and low quality - I honestly wonder if they ordered some other product? This C stand is one of the beefiest things I own, and I just ordered a second one. The base telescopes to well over 10 feet - maybe 12 or 13 feet tall. That's not including the arm which could be extended even higher to 15 feet or more - I'm not sure what you want to do this for (we're contemplating rescuing a stuffed Elmo doll from a ledge high above my vaulted foyer with the stand and I once needed a VERY long pole to retrieve a drone from a tree. Or maybe you could attach it to your Delorean with a copper hook to catch that power cable suspended above Main Street.) Anyway, back to the matter at hand - as it stands (ha!) this thing is very heavy and the hardware is sturdy and does not loosen over time. I love the sound of slotting the main mast into the base - a sort of machined metal 'ZIP'. The bag is great so far and I toss a few extra things into it like tape and a roll of paper for blacking out windows and such. I bought some extra sandbags in preparation for this stand I have not needed them at all - suspending an LED panel light above a standing subject was not enough to make this stand unstable. If I really stretched to find some negatives, it would be that the foam handle part slides fairly easily up and down (but who cares?) and the plastic clips are useful but they don't really attach snugly to the supplied arm - they are larger than the arm so they slide back and forth so you can either clamp, say, a light diffuser directly to the arm, catching it between the clamp teeth and the arm, or get the fancy c stand clamps that actually affix to the arm and then tighten down on whatever thing. Or maybe stick a piece of cloth in the gap and that might snug it up. That's about it. This C stand rocks. It's a good deal for how many uses on of these has. The bag works well, looks pro, and holds extra stuff.Edit: My second stand is just as great as the first. The bag for the second stand arrived with a hole in the corner. I'm shopping now for a solution for carrying both stands securely.