office chair paradox

I have 24 volt, 3 amp casters on mine. And anyone with hard floors who thinks they need special casters for hard floors should instead invest in a chair pad.

Oh ha ha ha ha! HIlarious! Dork.

Um, so the label on the chair is wrong? All the eBay listings for rubber caster wheels are also for nothing? I see. Wearing out the finish on a hardwood floor obviously has nothing to do with it, eh?

Cleary not...

No, they're providing a product for people who want soft casters on their chairs; they're just not shy about their pricing because they're getting away with it.

If the prices are too high, compete! Figure out a way to provide soft casters for a better price than they do, and win market share! :-)

Ain't Freedom Grand?

Good Luck! Rich

Strange. During an international move four of the five casters of my (expensive) office chair were crushed. I called the mfg in Europe, a company that only makes top-quality orthopedic chairs (meaning

under $25 and that included surface shipping. But first they asked me which type of floor I had at the new location.

Hard casters for carpet because that's what I have in the offices. But seriously, if you spend lots of time doing CAD and stuff on that chair consider spending a bit more. I found that there is a significant difference between and $800 chair and an $80 chair when it comes to back pains, fatigue and such. Here there is a cheaper one at a work desk that gets used maybe 1-2h/day, and two expensive orthopedic ones at the main CAD desk and the lab bench.

Hard casters roll too easily on hard floors and can be dangerous (chair slips out from under sleeping employee). OSHA will not be happy.

Freedom?

Who's the MFG? I've been looking at the Herman Miller Areon mesh chair. Pricey, but I'm looking for comfort.

Cheers

The office chair is from Martin-Stoll and the lab bench chair is from Steifensand.

Orthopedics is one of the areas where I do not cut corners. Damage done by wrong gear in that domain can usually not be undone anymore. At my first employer I was surprised that they didn't give everyone a PC so I had to use mine at home, but they did provide very expensive orthopedic chairs.

New to the thread, are we? a7blahblah was complaining about having hard casters, and wanted softer casters for his hardwood floors; his complaint was the 50 bucks a set for for soft casters for a hundred-dollar chair.

Yeah - Competition, AKA the Free Market. If you don't like their price, COMPETE!

Hope This Helps! Rich

No, but maybe you are...

Yes, but they're not interchangeable. Each has a use. The OP simply bought the wrong chair.

With OSHA and CPSC (and a hundred other government agencies) setting the standards for what you can sell. Again, freedom?

Hey, didn't someone mix up the names here?

Reality does present quite a challenge to you, doesn't it...

You had better try an Areon first. They gave us Areon mesh chairs several years ago. I found it to be terrible, cold, hard, and no comfortable tilt position. There was no comfortable way to sit on my foot, the hard plastic frame got in the way. Many bitched about them, we weren=92t asked what we would like, or allowed to keep our old chairs. Management thought we should have new chairs that all matched. They are like fancy patio chairs.