Side by Side Comparison of: Optima vs Charles Leonard

These were a great price and they have survived 3 classes of 6th graders almost an entire school year. They are very sturdy, clean easily, and I have not had any issues with the whiteboard chipping. I would highly recommend them.

I bought these to use in my second grade classroom. We have used them almost every day for six months now, and they have worked wonderfully. I wish I could find markers that held up as well!

I needed six to use of multi station studio workshops. Used for instructions on camera settings, Since they came in a 12 pack, I gave two each and a set of 16 markers to two of my grandchildren. One's a senior in high school, but they bot love them, and I'm delighted with the results in the studio. The two spares I use to make quick illustrations.

They appear to be well made durable and reasonably priced. Our daughter is a first grade teacher and we bought enough of these for her class. Time will tell on how they hold up. But for now the students are happy with them.

This is exactly what I wanted - not anything too fancy, just a pack of 12 thin but sturdy whiteboards. The surfaces are a lot higher quality than I had anticipated - standard Expo dry erase markers write on them cleanly and wipe off with no residual stain at all. They are also lightweight and thin enough to fit in a manilla folder, making them very easy to carry around. They are NOT magnetic, to those of you for whom that matters. This was well worth the price.

They are great! Sturdy enough to use for my classroom - good quality.

What a great deal for the price! Great quality white boards, pens and small felt erasers.

great set
quality product
all in a box with carry handle
students love to use them

I'm an engineering student. I'm getting to where a single problem can take up two or more pages just to work out. And if along the way I mess up, I gotta start all the way over. With these I can find an error, erase a couple lines and get back to work.
Great for quick notes too. Coupled with Microsoft Office lens, a quick snapshot of my board becomes a glare-free, text-searchable image or pdf.
This is a super cheap low-tech way to go paperless. I bought the surface pro for that purpose but nine times out of ten it's more practical just to break these out.
These two boards go with me to school every day and I use them every single day. The worst wear they have are a couple indents where someone used it as a clip board when I wasn't paying attention, but is a minor and ignor-able thing. Besides, I have ten more at home.

I am a teacher and bought these for use in my classroom. Perfect product and they work great. Love the little erasers and that they come with those and pens.

I bought these as a gift for my son's math teacher and she loved them. I especially liked that the pen and eraser were included with the white board making it a perfect option for schoolteachers

I donated these to the classroom so they're fine for that use. Not tip top quality, but great for students.

The boards were a good price but they are less sturdy than I was expecting. Overall still a great product for the cost and everything I received.

Well packaged with protective sheets in between the boards. The pens were good, but would recommend getting expo pens.

Whiteboards and erasers are great, but a good half of the markers were dead or dry before I even used them.

I was very pleased with this product. I am teacher who uses this for my math class. The erasers work well on the boards, and the boards are thick and durable. My only complaint is that the dry erase markers only worked for about 2 weeks before they stopped working. Otherwise, I'm satisfied!

Pretty good quality. I'm a teacher and these have served their purpose!

I bought these for the students in my classroom to use. They aren't the highest quality whiteboards, but I knew that when buying them. They stain easily and dry erase marker needs to be cleaned off well after using them. Overall they do what I need them to do, but if you're looking for quality, these are probably not your best option.

Not the best quality- marker doesn't wipe totally clean -but still serves the purpose - doesn't bother students.

The boards and erasers are fine, but all of the markers except for a couple were dried out.

Markers were running out of ink within a few days. Boards and erasers were great though.

Boards are good. Erasers break easily but are fine. Plan on only using the markers once, if that. You will have to buy good markers.

Was great but didn't last as long as I would have liked.

Love these. The erasers fall apart almost immediately, though. Othewise, very functional with great markers.

no real white board.

I was so excited for these boards to arrive, the price was great. Sadly, after one use the boards are stained so badly they are almost unusable. I have used cleaners but the stains are still there. Disappointed to say the least!

So far we've only used the whiteboard markers and within using them for two weeks, half the markers stopped working. We made sure the Caps we're on tight. We'll see what happens when we use the whiteboards.

It's a good product but when you run the board with a pen it acts as a water-based paint. Either the board material is not good or the pen is not good.

Boards are ok, some of them came scratched on the side, I had to seal them with washi tape so that none of the kids get hurt. Not ideal when it's something for children.

The markers are really bad, you write with ttthem and then the writing getting so thin and almost fades away.
Note also that these markers aren't washable so not good for the elementary grades. I have to go buy washable markers myself to use with these boards.

Had for 4 months. Boards are chipping on the corners. Markers are useless.

The majority of my markers were dried off be fore I even had a chance to use them. But the boards are so nice for my preschoolers. Just wish we had working markers as they arent cheap.

Hard to apply.

SCAM!!!!!!!!

Markers dried out in one month

Stinks to high heaven

The whiteboards arrived damaged!