My wife bought it for me so this isn't Staples or the manufacturers fault My last one gets thrown in my car once a week drug to church (it's full of music) and it broke. I'm not necessarily hard on it but you know. This one won't hold up as long as that one (it was purchased at Staples years ago). Plastic is less rigid and not much of a positive or secure latch. In fact I carry it with two hands because I'm afraid to carry it by the handle for fear it or the latch will break and Ill be picking up music off the floor or worse wet asphalt.