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After fighting with the current stand on my Quickcam pro 3000 and the hours of frustration caused by it moving, wobbling or generally looking the other way I decided it was time to look for a new stand or tripod. As I currently own a TFT flat panel monitor I had already resigned to the fact that I wasn't going to be able to mount the camera on top of it - but hang on , whats this I found on the web?, Flexstand - looks interesting I thought so I ordered one.
Now I have this bendy contraption attached to my desk behind the TFT monitor and it peeks over the top with the camera firmly attached and I'm wondering how on earth I managed without it, its so simple but brilliantly effective - If you have a webcam and a TFT monitor or very little desk space or just cant get the camera at the right angle then the Flexstand is the answer to your prayers.
The flexstand trully is my hero!

I bought a FlexStand last year, and am glad that I did so - because it allows me to get angles that were not available with the wimpy stand that came with my webcam. I have one of those faces that looks good from some angles, and not so good from others. I also like the way that I can now push the webcam away and not be paranoid about being "on" when I don't want to be.

I broke the flat bit where the cam attaches, but I contacted strange solutions (because I wasn't going to be stuck w/ something that doesn't work), and their customer service person was nice and helpful and understanding and they mailed me a replacement one the same day that I called. I'm a girl, but I replaced it lickity split, and I was camming again.

So - I'd say that my overall happyness with this product has been very high, and it has gotten me to use my cam a lot more than I used to.

I cannot recommend this camera stand. True, it allows arbitrary positioning of the cam. However, the flex arm is very awkward to adjust - much too rigid. Adjustments have to be done with two hands and require considerable effort. The arm just loosely slides into the base, so upon bending it one will inevitably lift the whole assembly out of the base. Worse, the camera platform cannot be adjusted at all. It it annoyingly difficult to get level. No fine adjustments are possible. Both the platform and the stand, the two parts likely to be subject to stress, are made of cheap plastic - guaranteed not to last. Finally, the cable clips are a joke - weak flimsy plastic parts that slip and slide every which way at any arm movement. The only possible use for this product is to position the camera once at a single fixed angle. Unlike a good tripod, real-time adjustments are not possible. I get better results just placing the camera with its original stand on a stack of books. Again, I cannot recommend this product.