GIGATENT 7.25’ X 4 POP UP 2 Person Backpacking Tent 48” Entrance Height with Fully Taped Large Fly

I am only giving this a 1 star because the option for no stars is not available. This is an objectively bad product.While searching around for camping equipment I came across this item which seemed like a very oddball design for a tent. I raised an eyebrow at it and looked tirelessly for an informative review on the internet for it. I could not find one so I figured for less than 100 dollars I would take one for the team and dive in and be the first to review it.When the item arrived the box in which it shipped was not fully taped shut, however the product appeared to be unused.The product when packed down has a larger 2 dimensional cross-section than my 30L daypack. (it's a giant disc). This essentially renders it useless for backpacking. Although it comes in a sleeve with a shoulder strap on it so you can laugh at the mere suggestion that it might ever be used for backpacking. Camping season in my province doesn't start for another month but I have a big back yard and the forecast called for rain today so it seemed like a good opportunity to test how well the rain fly works.Setup without the fly on takes a ridiculously short amount of time. Which seems to be the gimmick they are going for with the product. It pops open, you put a pole down the upper spine of the tent and then you stake down the corners and you're done. With practice this could be done in about a minute. It's a very small tent and if you are 6 feet tall or taller you will not find peace in this tent. This is to be expected though because the rule of thumb usually suggests that you subtract 1 from the number of people the tent is advertised to sleep.Then came the rain fly. The guy-lines were coiled with random tying techniques and took about 10 minutes to decipher and unbundle. The fly was awkward to tie to the frame because of it's 'unique' design. The guy-lines themselves are made of some elastic material. There is no reason for a guy-wire, regardless of the application to ever be elastic. The result is that no mortal human being would ever be able to tie them in such a manner that the fly would sit symmetrically. The fly barely comes below the mesh portion, it sits very loosely over the rest of the tent, no matter how taut you pulled the guy-lines, and the end result is that I didn't even need to wait for the rain to know how well the rain fly would perform; so I decided rather than get rained on I would just take it down and be done with it.And let's face it; the weather is not predictable enough during camping season to ever make going to bed before attaching the rain-fly a good idea.So it's odd-ball aesthetics that are bound to make you the unwanted center of attention at the camp ground aren't made up for by any improved functionality because the quick setup ends with the rain-fly; which takes far longer to attach and doesn't attach as well as with a regular dome tent.But if you purchase this product it doesn't end there. I figured to save myself the headache of trying to argue with customer service to take back this product I would just pack it up and stop by a thrift store and donate it, and go to bed feeling altruistic. No interpretation of the repacking instructions resulted in a repacked tent. This tent is a Pandora's box of regret. Once you open it and all of the horror escapes nothing can repack it and close it back up.I'm sure some amount of persistence and fiddling might eventually result in the tent becoming repacked but since this item is meant to be a leisure item that alone makes it a failure.