Camera Battery Grip Canon EOS Cam - 2pk

Got this for a Nikon D3200, because the camera is so small and lightweight, I wanted the extra grip length and weight. Nikon doesn't make one for the D3200, so I thought I'd get this instead.The loose, rattling door is annoying, but foam tape can at least stop the rattle. What earned this item it's over deserved one star is the tripod mount at the bottom.And the fact that they pulled the classic bait and switch. See the photos, it's not quite what you're getting. Notice the lock knobs front and back to mount to the camera? You get one, not two, which is harder to mount and applies asymmetrical pressure on the pivot point, not good for any plastic housing. You're not getting what they're showing, period. I'm sure they'll say its 'new and improved'. Hardly. Read on...Mounted a standard 1/4" quick release plate on it, first time use right out of the box, and the plate could not be removed. It just sits there and spins. The only way to release it was to pull the QR plate forcefully, and it didn't take much force. The metal female thread popped out of the base, revealing that it is lightly toothed at its top circumference, and seats into a similar toothed plastic sleeve. A plastic sleeve less than 1/8" thick.You call this Pro Series? Hey, I knew it was plastic, but the design of this tripod mount is just pathetically bad. Did you really expect it to last at all? Mattel toys are better engineered than this.So if you want the extended battery time and extra grip length, yeah, this does the job, but it's reasonable to expect that your buyers will, on occasion, mount this on a tripod.I'm not going to pay to ship it back, it's not worth it, and I'm sure I'll get stuck with a replacement that has the same badly engineered tripod mount. Now that it's popped out, I'll try to epoxy or JB Weld it back into its flimsy sleeve, and hope that works. Because the design doesn't. What shoddy engineering, shame on them.UPDATE:Over 1 hour of surgery, removal of 23 screws, gentle disassembly of the 5 main body plates. Turns out that the female sleeve that holds the metal 1/4"x20 tripod mount wasn't even big enough to accommodate the metal mount. Lots of plastic flash prevented this, and the injection molding was crescented so badly, the 1/8" plastic sleeve couldn't even accommodate the metal mount. So they just jammed it in half a millimeter or so. No wonder it spun right out at first use.So the sleeve was carefully reamed, mount was fit tested before being liberally epoxied in place with JB Weld. I expect same time or longer for re-assembly.In conclusion, no way I would have bought this knowing the repair awaiting me. Total of nearly 3 hours on a bench. I thought it would be much less time, but once started, I had to finish since it was either that or toss it since I'm sure opening it violated the warranty. Never again, never. Unintelligent engineering, very low quality injection molding, even lower QC standards. I'll be lucky if I get a good week out of it.