Who would pay $800 for office chairs?

[everman]

I'm sure they paid less than retail if it's a decent size office. To justify the price: just think about it, you might be sitting in that chair for close to 2000 hours every year. It probably gets used more than anything else besides the floor. Plus you have issues with repetitive stress problems they can help fix.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: shimsham

The 12-Year Warranty covers everything that makes a Herman Miller Office Chair--including casters, tilts, pneumatic cylinders, and all moving mechanisms

sounds like a good reason to me. id rather do that, then have the hassle of replacing cheap, really uncomfortable chairs all the time.

Your the kinda person that buys the ext. warrenty at bestbuy are you not? That is NOT a good reason. heck the $50 chair from office depot came with a 10 year warrenty.

I could buy a very decent chair for $100. Put the other $700 in a CD and in 10+ years have a new chair every 18-24 months and money left over.

 

[acemcmac]

I think they're worth it. I love mine.

 

[Powermoloch]

I'll bet you china can pumped those out for 50 bucks.

 

[LikeLinus]

I've never cared for the herman miller chairs that much. I've been in serveral offices that had them...so not impressed. Don't get me wrong, they feel ok, but they feel like any other $200 nicer office chair. You're paying for the name more than anything.

 

[loup garou]

$800 isn't too bad for a good chair with a good warranty. WTF else can you buy with a 12 year warranty?! Especially something that gets so much use. A good investment, IMO. That said, I don't find Mirras or Aerons all that great (Aeron mesh makes my ass itch 😛). Love a good Eames Aluminum Group Management Chair though. Steelcase makes great chairs too.

 

[Liviathan]

I have one of the original Herman Miller..had for maybe 3 years, it is pretty confortable and worth the money to me.

 

[RichieZ]

that chair sucks, the Aeron is much more comfortable than the Mirra.

 

[eelw]

Yup, I have. Sitting in an Aeron right now at home 🙂

 

[hemiram]

Originally posted by: apinomus
A new-hire was pretty amazed at how customizeable these chairs are we have in the office and I hadn't thought anything of it. He went searching online and found them and pointed out to me how much they cost and I was really shocked. $800? For a chair? Ridiculous!

Amazon.com link

PS: They're only mildly comfortable. I would expect pure luxery for that price.

LOL, your bosses don't waste money. With the warranty the HM chairs have, $800 isn't that bad. Where I used to work at, the "flunkies" got the $1000 steelcase chairs and the mid level bosses got $1500 chairs, from some Italian company, can't remember the name, and the VPs and up got $4k chairs from the same Italian outfit. Personally, I liked the Steelcase chairs the best. Those were leftovers from the last time they bought/leased new furniture, and were going to be tossed out, but someone had the sense to put them into the replacement chair room instead. The money they tossed away at that place amazed me.

I looked at chairs recently and found that I could buy a set of 4 Steelcase kitchen chairs at a local dept store for a little bit more than ONE nearly identical chair cost at an office place. So what if the metal is brass colored instead of silver? Not me.

 

[TallBill]

Chairs? Haha. thats a good one. Metal folding ftw.