The Official Swivel Chair Thread

[Sput]

Aye, you'd like Tim, too. He's tall and handsome and gives me cracking discounts.

And good deals on office supplies too! HEY HO

[Gavin Scott]

The list prices may be, but the difference is I can negotiate.

Would you care to act as middle-man for my next chair?

Give me the part number and I'll squeeze his margins happily.

[cdd]

You want your feet to be off the ground?

If your feet aren't off the ground how can you SPIN AROUND!

Gosh, it sounds like you've had a bad experience with yours.

Quite possibly - there's nothing WRONG with them, I'm just not sure they're worth the money. I guess I'll pay the price with back problems later in life - which seems to be the reason most put for purchasing them...

Herman Miller chairs are also covered for twelve years, so[...]I'd suggest you get in touch with them.

I would, but I got it for free and I imagine they would want all sorts of proof-of-purchase that I'd be unable to provide. Might be worth a punt though.

Here's a pic of what the offending 'back' looks like without the tape (which wears out periodically) - it effectively ruins the lumbar support for which the chair is supposed to be so famous...

Viking Direct is still a subsidiary of Office Depot, and I'm quite sure neither Viking nor Office Depot has anything to do with Lyreco.

I could have sworn they were something to do with Staples actually - but that may be the consumer rather than the business side. I'm totally confused but in eihter case I am disappointed that Ian (Irwin?) Helford no longer appears on the catalogues.

[Pete]

The list prices may be, but the difference is I can negotiate.

Would you care to act as middle-man for my next chair?

TSK @ you hijacking my thread for your own purchasing needs

[bilky asko]

Viking Direct is still a subsidiary of Office Depot, and I'm quite sure neither Viking nor Office Depot has anything to do with Lyreco.

I could have sworn they were something to do with Staples actually - but that may be the consumer rather than the business side. I'm totally confused but in eihter case I am disappointed that Ian (Irwin?) Helford no longer appears on the catalogues.

Staples bought out some company called Office World back in 2004.

[BBC LDN]

Here's a pic of what the offending 'back' looks like without the tape (which wears out periodically) - it effectively ruins the lumbar support for which the chair is supposed to be so famous...

I've seen that very same thing before. A couple of friends ruined it during an impromptu explosion of Sexy Time, when she apparently lept on to him, the chair fell back, and as the top of the backrest hit the floor, the weight of his body and hers impacted via his lower back and snapped the lumbar support clean in half.

I shall choose to believe that it was the extraordinary engineering of the Herman Miller Aeron chair that saved this man's life, and indeed prevented him from being paralysed by this terrible accident. I shall also choose to believe that you damaged yours in a similar incident, and I demand that you share the intricacies of it with us.

Frankly, I think we, the public, deserve an explanation, with as many sordid and sickening details as possible, including what brand of nipple clamps you were wearing at the time of the collision.


Edit: I've just realised that the rather graphic description of the aforementioned sextastrophe rather implies that I was there or that I was recording the whole thing via a sophisticated closed circuit surveillance system that no-one is supposed to know about and which definitely isn't still recording them 24 hours a day. Clearly, there's another perfectly logical explanation for this, and if anybody can suggest one, please let me know.