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I bought this around black friday and am very happy with it. I figured it was better to have a cheaper selectorized than a nicer plate loaded and am very happy with that choice. I know you have best buy gift cards to burn but I got mine at walmart which looks like it's having a sale right now and is cheaper than I paid. Yes, you will need to mount it to a wall. If you can line it up to a stud, you just need some large lag screws but that can be a lot of strain on a single wall stud. I wanted to put mine in a very specific location between two closets so I just put up a couple of 2x6 stringers (top and bottom) that hit 3 studs and then lagged it into that. I replaced the pulleys with generic aluminum ones on amazon for about 80 and that was a very significant improvement that I would highly recommend. I also switched to some generic swivel shackles and haven't had any issues with twisting cables. pros: - handles everything I want to do with it - fits BoS cable tower attachments (60mm) -> seal row pad, etc - The attachments it comes with aren't perfect, but it's a nice starting point and much better than nothing. Also comes with the 2:1 adapter. cons: - shipping of the selectorized weights is a bit clunky. Mine came in 4 shipments where 3 of the boxes came on one day and the 4th box came like 3 days later. Mikolo was responsive in email but there was a large time zone difference so I needed to wait a day for replies. - A couple of months after having it, the pulley's spring loaded pin somehow separated from the backing nut and dropped down into the frame. I really didn't want to disassemble, so I contacted mikolo and they sent a replacement pin for free that fixed the issue. - The main con in online reviews was that you couldn't use the selectorized pin in the front of the weight stack for heavy weight, because the bottom cable/chain was in the way. But this really depends on how tight you keep the bottom cable. I don't really have any issues using the front going up to about 140 or so. And taking the pin and sticking it in the back is really not as big of a hassle as people made it seem.