Globe on Stand

I bought this as a gift for my fiancee, and as soon as I opened the packaging, I got the unpleasant surprise of a tag saying "Not for educational use."I wasn't overly worried, thinking it may be slightly out of date or slightly skewed in the art.Oh, it was much worse.The stickers that make up the "world" are well aligned at the equator, but overlap horrendously the farther north and south they go, completely eliminating huge chunks of continents near the poles.Extremely poor globe. I'm very unhappy that I paid so much for it, and if I had bought it for myself, I would have returned it in a second, but my fiancee simply likes the way it looks on his desk, and doesn't mind the terrible inaccuracy.At very, very least, the site needs to put the warning of "Not for educational use" on the website BEFORE the customer buys it and is so surprisingly displeased.

Alright, right off the bat, if you have even the most basic knowledge of Earth's morphology you can see what a hunk of junk this is. We all know Earth is an oblate spheroid more flattened at the poles and more rounded at the equator. Why then, pray tell, is this bastardization of our Earth higher from "top" to "bottom" than at the equator? I'm sure there are a myriad of reasons, but I can't imagine any of them are legitimate enough to explain why something so horribly inaccurate could be marketed legally.

This is a really smug piece of "deskoration" and I wouldn't put it on my dog's desk (assuming my dog had a desk). Give me a pack of colored pencils and the back of an envelope and I can produce a more proper representation of our planet than whatever shell organization created this abortion. I'm keeping mine though, and I'm sending another $70.09 to this company in hopes they can hire someone or something more competent than a doorknob to head up their product development department.

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This globe was much smaller than I anticipated.But the picture made it look brown when in fact it was a very ugly gold color.I was very disappointed.I did return it and must say, the return process was very simple.

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I was horrified when I opened this.The globe is comprised of stickers.Stickers!But, that's the least of my concerns.The stand is such an eye sore.It has visible glue marks at the seems.Globs of glue. The finish...oh dear the finish is atrocious!And it's falling apart.I'm awaiting a response from the seller before I leave them feedback.I can't give this to my daughter.It looks like a dollar store product.Don't waste your money.

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Looks good on a shelf. The color of mine is more orange than the picture, but I actually think it looks better. Not accurate for classroom use, but looks good on a shelf.