19 Comments

1. 1

   You poor guy. Maybe you should try replacing it with a nice trusty inflatable ball. They have less moving parts to break.

   Comment by James — December 2, 2005 #

2. 2

   good idea with the ball-

   but i know the feeling man, i once put my foot through someone’s FLOOR!
   {and i knew it was diet time!}

   Comment by djp72 — December 2, 2005 #

3. 3

   I believe that the standard herman miller 12 year warranty applies.

   Hopefully?

   PS, if it does apply, it seems like it’s worth $900 of hosting credit. :)

   Comment by noah — December 2, 2005 #

4. 4

   oh man, that womps.

   hehe, good times.

   Comment by Spiffness — December 2, 2005 #

5. 5

   Hey, cool, someone else who says “womps.” :)

   Comment by Recesser — December 2, 2005 #

6. 6

   $900??? Why not get a few spares and buy 6 of the $149 alternative. Been using one of these to carry my 6′6″, 205lb derriere around the office for a few months now. Comfy, fabric breathes nicely for you folks who sit around in the buff all day, and comes with a 15-year limited warranty too… What more could you ask for!

   But, hey, whatever floats your boat carries your keister.

   Comment by Robert K. — December 3, 2005 #

7. 7

   *sigh* That “$149 alternative” link is supposed to point to
   to this chair from Stables.

   Comment by Robert K. — December 3, 2005 #

8. 8

   I weigh 416 pounds, so breaking chairs/beds/sofas is the norm for me. I spent $3000 on a treadmill, but it just sits in the living room behaving like Arthur C. Clarke’s “Tycho Magnetic Anomaly”. Perhaps it will begin to induce intelligence one day…

   Comment by Simon Jessey — December 3, 2005 #

9. 9

   You need to buy rubber furniture.

   Comment by IGrizzli — December 3, 2005 #

10. 10

    That sucks, at least though when the chair broke you didn’t fall in between a desk and a filing cabinet and then have a friend come in to see you stuck and then try to stick pens into your butt crack.

    I’ve been using an IKEA Jules chair for almost 4 years now, I replaced the stock casters with some smoother ones but only problems I’ve had with it has been screws coming loose overtime but some lock-tite would fix that.

    Plus like the others said that chair should still be under warranty.

    Comment by Nate MC — December 3, 2005 #

11. 11

    Maybe you should running by the morning in the next year. And dont eats turkey, only salad =)
    And all will be fine

    Comment by Xrem — December 4, 2005 #

12. 12

    It’s not your fat bum that caused the chair to break! It’s the piece of crap chair you’re sitting on!

    Once knew a guy locally that ran his own webhosting/designing business. He had his office stocked with these weird looking ergonomic posture chairs. Comfy as hell though.

    Comment by Jennifer — December 4, 2005 #

13. 13

    Your belly is not big! You’re not even fat! lol. I agree with Jennifer…it must be the chair. How about getting a niceone at IKEA? ::P

    Comment by Sara — December 4, 2005 #

14. 14

    Oh yeah thanks for jinxing me, I broke two casters this week on my chair. Now I have to grind the nuts off and weld new ones on.

    I’m blaming it all on you. ;)

    Comment by Nate MC — December 9, 2005 #

15. 15

    
    

    http://www.northcoastcabcompany.com/

    Comment by Roski — December 11, 2005 #

16. 16

    This is no fluke, Nate broke my chair about 3 weeks later ….

    seriously … treadmill or else!

    Comment by brian — December 29, 2005 #

17. 17

    Man… all the chairs in my company’s CyberCafe are those.

    Maybe we could borrow one for you. hmm… Now if only I could figure out how to get it past the guard, 16 cameras, and the spinning security door thingy. ;-)

    Comment by Alex — December 31, 2005 #

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    I’d cry if I broke my Aeron! But as the other guy said the warranty should definatly count.

    Best chair aerons, anyone who says go for hte $149 alternative is crazy. Nothing beats them.

    Comment by DavidSFN — January 14, 2006 #

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