If you're in the USA and needing a new office/computer chair....

[thewayne]

If you have a local Staples, they may be having a clearance sale on them. I picked up a nice Staples-labeled chair for about half-off, took me about half an hour to assemble it. The instructions were excellent: Ikea-like, but included words. ;-) I was a little frustrated in that I didn't find the instructions until I'd pretty much emptied the box, they were in a plastic bag taped with the screw assortment (which is nicely segregated according to what step they are needed for) which was then taped to the box holding the pneumatic cylinder.

MUCH more comfortable than the wood dining table chair that I had been sitting on, it was absolutely horrible for my back! I should clear the floor a bit and slide my PC tower over a little to give the poodle a bit more room to get under the table. It's not a perfect chair, but for $160, it's awfully darn good!

At least at my Staples, they're clearing room to install a Party City, or some other silliness. Personally I think it's a bad idea, but hey, they didn't ask me.

Comments

[thewayne]

Agreed.  I hate the idea of buying an office chair without sitting in it first!  When I was working at the blind school, the boss was doing a staycation and saw a Staples ad with this really nice chair on sale.  Told his #2 to go out and buy four or five of them for everyone.  I asked whether or not we should go down and check 'em out before buying them, was told no.  So they were bought, put together, and the seat was too deep: you needed really long femurs, they were designed for really tall people.  I was the first one to go back to my old chair, but ultimately everyone did.

[disneydream06]

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!