A crappy safe is better than no safe at all. Its just not very realistic for some folks to go and drop $5-$20k on a real safe to protect a few things. It took some time for me to get enough coin together to pick up the unit I have now but I still had to have something to get me by as I couldn't imagine just having all my stuff just laying around the house...this is where the crappy safes come in handy.