Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Insufficient for a freestanding umbrella

This product might do okay as a base below a table, but we had purchased it so that we could have a freestanding umbrella beside our inground pool. Fifteen minutes later, the first strong breeze of the day caused the plastic sleeve holding the umbrella to kink and fail - permanently compromised.We returned it to the hardware store we bought it from and paid an additional $14 for a more substantial (and more attractive) metal decorative stand, which has held up to all kinds of wind since then.I do suspect that this could be used with a table above it, so that the base isn't responsible to handle all of the wind's load, but that wasn't what we were hoping for.