Could be great but cheap materials ruin this dresser

We ordered this product along with a matching crib (DaVinci Kalani Convertible Baby Crib - Cherry). These appeared to be a nice middle-ground between the really cheap particle-board and cardboard dressers at $200 and the (beautiful) Amish solid wood pieces at $1400+. The crib is wonderful and aside from scratching easily it is fantastic.
This dresser however is another story. In addition to the solid wood frame the drawers have particleboard frame and the drawer bottoms are the thinnest cheapest cardboard you can find. All of the hardware in the dresser is of poor quality which caused numerous problems during assembly. In one case the screws pulverized the particleboard and I needed to purchase a new screw drill my own hole and hope that I didn't destroy the wood in doing so.
As other reviewers have mentioned the drawers also come apart fairly often (once/month). I have been tempted to glue the drawers to decrease this frequency. My concern with that is that the cardboard is so cheap that I'm not sure it would hold up to the gluing and I think that might be the end of the drawers.
The entire unit sways a little bit too. Tightening it only makes it worse (yikes!).
Overall a big disappointment. It looks beautiful but it won't hold up. We should have either spent less or more on something that will really last.More detail ...
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