Used Office Chairs: What to Look Out for Before Buying
By Nora P. Dyson
Office chairs are one of the most used furniture in the world
of marketing business, telecommunications, and basically everything else that requires an office and computers.
Almost every company makes use of office chairs. It is not uncommon therefore that even home offices or even
computer tables make use of office chairs.
However, these pieces of furniture do cost a lot. Some would go
up to $1500 (like some of Herman Miller’s excellent Aeron models), other, lower priced ones, can be found starting
at about $50. But many of those lower priced ones actually tend to be of low quality too and very uncomfortable so
if you are setting up a humble home office, or a small business, you’ll probably have to deal with budget cuts on
your office chairs to furnish or give way for other more important office needs. Buying office chairs, however,
need not be very expensive. What is probably very abundant in America is the presence of used products. You’ll find
garage sales and flea markets everywhere so you should look for used office chairs in those areas
first.
Make flea markets your haunt, and with enough time and
patience, you may find a used office chair that you want. But when choosing a used office chair, take note of a few
minor details before actually coughing up the cash for buying it.
Look at the used office chair form every angle. See if the seat
is tilted in any way or if the seat hangs to one side. This chair is probably already broke and might just cause a
backache rather than comfort you’ll just end up spending more rather than saving your bucks. Consequently, look
also at the back rest of the chair especially if it is a reclining chair. If the back rest is a bit diagonal or
tilted in any way, don’t buy it.
Test the used office chair’s tilt mechanism. Sit on it and try
a few different positions. If the seat is hard to manipulate or tilt, you might not want to buy it. Hard to control
seats may be the onset of rusting or damage in its inside mechanisms and you wont want your seat to fall apart when
you’re on it.
Look at stains and droplets on the used office chair’s cushion.
It’s also good thinking to smell the cushion although you might look funny doing it. Some stains or remnants of
stains may not be seen but smelled. If the chair reeks, get away from it. You won’t want other people’s liquids
transferred to you don’t you?
It’s ok if the used office chair has a few stains though. Those
cannot be avoidable. You can even use them as discount reasons.
Look for scratches on the used office chair’s back rests also
under the seat and scratches somewhere near the mechanisms for adjustment. You’d want these places to be clean so
you’ll know if its been tampered with or damaged.
Test the knobs and levers on the used office chair especially
those used to lift the chair. Some office chairs use air to lift or lower the height of the used office chair. Lift
the chair to its highest position and then sit on it for a considerable amount of time. If it slowly decreases in
height then there might be leak in its air chamber. This doesn’t really matter if you want to use the used office
chair in its lowest position but if you want it adjusted periodically, find a chair that stays high when you make
it high.
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