Rouge FlashBender - great idea, but...

Some time ago, impressed with description and concept of Rouge FlashBender I found on line, I bought it.
It is a device which controls light of your flash. It can be shaped differently, creating narrow openings,  shape edges of light, or act as a bounce card...
Because three flexible rods hold their position until you change it, it can be shaped to practically any angle, therefore can be used instead many separate light modifiers, like MoBo, bouncing card, snoot, etc. etc.

I thought - how clever to have just a single modifier instead of two or three single function cards. And - I bought it.

Then, I used it. I used it in several situations, trying to like it. However - after many tries - my conclusion was: a great idea, but failed design. Result? Total waste of money.Why?
Well, the three flexible rods are sooo heavy, that combined with also very heavy, unnecessarily thick  fabric, they are simply way to heavy to work well. Even as the bender holds its shape - it slowly slides down from the flash, and does not want to sit firm on it. Its weight pulls it down from flash head, rendering it useless. Additionally, the surface is  made of two layers - thick, heavy black cover on top, and a white plastic on active side. The plastic is not really well attached to the black fabric, and it all gets baggy. Loose bag-like pieces of white plastic limp down, obstructing the way of light. What a fiasco! The Mender went to the bottom of my drawer not to see daylight in any close future.

The idea is great, and if it was better made it would be a great product. As it is - it is pretty useless, and I already bought 3 other separate light modifiers for my Speedlight SB900,
Believe it or not - they are really nice, and combined together weight about 1/4 of the Rouge FlashBender's weight!
So, if you need a flash light modifier, get any of these separate ones, but save yourself some money and lots of stress - pass on the bender, or it will bend your patience...