I got a lot of extras by mistake, I thought I ordered 5 and I got 50. I was ticked at first too because it was shipped with other items that were fragile and a few things got bumped in transit, but in the end everything really worked out for the better. I use these things for going inbetween arches, for breaking my roof outline into 12' sections (about 50 nodes) and I have really quick connects now for breaking things down come January. Also, similar to Jim, I have 4 nodes on one and use it for testing all my SSCs that I've been building lately.