prepworks® Collapsible Cupcake and Cake Carrier in Grey

I noticed for every one-star review on this product, there are several gushing five-star reviews following (which, aside from there obvious infomercial-style titles, and even one pitching another product, I doubt is a coincidence). First off, it's just a poorly made product, and has a real "dollar-store" feel to it. Secondly, the design flaws mentioned in this and the other one-star ratings, quite frankly, defeat the whole purpose of owing this product. My wife and I have used it twice now in one and a half years. The first time we used it, I carried it by the bottom becuase it had individual pies in the carrier, and I had to keep is stable. The second time (today- 3/3/12), we had arranged cupcakes on both tiers of the cupcake organizer that came with our carrier. As I was carrying the carrier out to the car, the bottom literaly popped off; it wasn't bumped, it was carried very gently (it was full of cupcakes, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out "Hold Upright, Walk Soft and Slow"). I had checked the latches prior to lifting the carrier (I wanted to make sure they were secure, because it seemed so cheaply made, I questioned the integrity of the latches). I held the carrier by the handle on top (the only handle), proceeded to the car, and about 10 steps in to my walk, POP!!! About 13 hours of mixing, baking, decorating and arranging were lost- Just. Like. That. The point to all these cupcakes, to begin with, was for my wifes best friends baby shower, whom both her and her husband lost their jobs within the last couple months, and, like my wife and I (I've been looking for work since May, 3 months before our daughter was born), are of limited means. It killed me to see all the hard work go into these cupcakes only to be stopped dead in our tracks by a poorly made, $29.99 piece-of-junk. When I looked up and saw the tears in my wifes eyes, I immediately started to well up. Never mind the frosting that covered my hands,shoes, and the bottom of my pants, when I saw how devistated my wife was, my heart broke for her. All I could think about was how she painstakingly decorated every cupcake by hand, from the second she got home from work at 7 pm until 2 am, then got up at 8:30 this morning to finish the job. My wife managed to scrounge together enough money to get some cupcakes from a local grocery store (cost 5 times what we paid, for half the quality of product and decoration). Please keep these 2 things in mind before you buy this product: 1. Read all of the reviews. All the one star reviews seem to have a similiar problem, whilst all the 5-star reviews seem to "compliment" this product as though it saved their life (c'mon, it's a cupcake carrier, not a cure for cancer) . 2. If you are in the process of carrying 24 cupcakes some where, you are probably not going to be in a position to remix, rebake, re let cool, and redecorate if something goes arye.