Just made it up there, it's brand new, teak and was flat packed. It was quite hard to join all the bits as they didn't really fit too well (very tight) and my DH had to press really hard on it to get it all to join. I have noticed that the top of one arm of the bench has split during the assembly, probably cos the bits haven't been prepared to fit correctly! It also came with dowels to secure the bench and they won't fit either! It has 4 screws in it and as it's such a tight fit it should be totally fine without the dowels anyway.
But I am really annoyed about the wood splitting, you can't see it right away but it's about a 5 inch long crack and I'm not sure if it might fall apart with the weather? But it would be such a PITA to send it back, I would need to pay for it and arrange courier etc. Do you think I should say anything to the seller anyway? The service was fine other than that but selling benches that don't really fit together properly isn't on!