That one layer is far sturdier than the covering on a traditional office chair, at least if it’s a budget model and not actual leather. You can also replace the mesh, but if you aren’t using a super expensive model, I think it’s easier to just replace the chair at that point. Anecdotally, I sit on my feet all the time and haven’t had any problems with the mesh tearing.
Don’t complain that you can’t get replacement parts if you’re not ready to pay the price to buy from a manufacturer that will invest to produce the extra parts necessary to offer the service instead of manufacturing just what is necessary to assemble new products.
Offering replacement parts means manufacturing them and storing them, potentially for years, there’s a cost to that and that cost is paid when you purchase the product. Cars would be much cheaper if manufacturers didn’t have to make replacement parts as well!
I checked the official German store and they did not offer any replacement parts there, or at least I could not find any.
Also, modularity is not that much more expensive to the point where you have to pay thousands of bucks for a chair. That’s a bullshit argument. Every single office chair is assembled at home, even the cheapest ones.
The manufacturer not offering the same parts separately is simply a marketing strategy so that you have to buy a whole fucking chair again.
The extra parts still need to be built and stored in order to offer them, that’s a huge increase in cost because it makes the difference between manufacturing and shipping and manufacturing, storing and shipping. Storage space ain’t free buddy.
It’s just a small shift in storage / management. Those parts are already stored separately before they get packaged into a box with all the other parts. This does not warrant a few hundred bucks, let alone a 1000-2000 bucks uptick. Please stop with those bullshit arguments.
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I used to have this problem, but switched to mesh chairs a few years ago and it’s completely solved it. (Doesn’t need to be a super expensive one.)
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That one layer is far sturdier than the covering on a traditional office chair, at least if it’s a budget model and not actual leather. You can also replace the mesh, but if you aren’t using a super expensive model, I think it’s easier to just replace the chair at that point. Anecdotally, I sit on my feet all the time and haven’t had any problems with the mesh tearing.
What’s convenient is that we find it obscene to patch the assrest, which would mark the posterior-stressed spot unless executed unusually well.
So we just replace the whole fucking chair, piston, wheels, back, bolts and all.
Makes the chair business go round and round like a kid who just discovered the only remnant of joy mankind allowed to exist in the office.
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Herman Miller
They have neither replacement parts nor are they in any sort of way affordable when they cost like 2-5 times the amount of my PC.
You can buy replacement parts
Don’t complain that you can’t get replacement parts if you’re not ready to pay the price to buy from a manufacturer that will invest to produce the extra parts necessary to offer the service instead of manufacturing just what is necessary to assemble new products.
Offering replacement parts means manufacturing them and storing them, potentially for years, there’s a cost to that and that cost is paid when you purchase the product. Cars would be much cheaper if manufacturers didn’t have to make replacement parts as well!
I checked the official German store and they did not offer any replacement parts there, or at least I could not find any.
Also, modularity is not that much more expensive to the point where you have to pay thousands of bucks for a chair. That’s a bullshit argument. Every single office chair is assembled at home, even the cheapest ones. The manufacturer not offering the same parts separately is simply a marketing strategy so that you have to buy a whole fucking chair again.
The extra parts still need to be built and stored in order to offer them, that’s a huge increase in cost because it makes the difference between manufacturing and shipping and manufacturing, storing and shipping. Storage space ain’t free buddy.
It’s just a small shift in storage / management. Those parts are already stored separately before they get packaged into a box with all the other parts. This does not warrant a few hundred bucks, let alone a 1000-2000 bucks uptick. Please stop with those bullshit arguments.