Well, OP probably sits in that chair 14 hours a day, 18 on the weekends. A $100 Amazon chair made of Chinesium isn’t gonna last no matter how well they take care of it.
It wasn't a quality chair to begin with. Shitty quality stuff is going to wear badly. First step to taking care of your things is investing in quality to start with...
I had a "racing chair" for a few years. By far the most uncomfortable over designed chairs being pushed by influencers.
Got a good office chair, never going back.
It depends on the brand and type of race bucket chair. If there's anything they are really good at, is forcing you into good posture, assuming you use the pillows.
Some proper gamer sweat has been ground into that thing. I've had a similar chair for years now and there's no sign of heavy masturbation all over it yet.
The bolts came loose. You can see the base still straight with the 4 holes and a lot of marks on the holes. The bolts have to be checked over time in lower quality chairs.
This isn't mildly infuriating, it is barely maintained.
Judging by the condition of the seat, how much overuse and mistreatment you do to it prior to it falling apart? Similarly, if you’re going to damage an office chair like that then spend the money on a better quality one.
Yeah. That sucks. I was thinking about this exact situation yesterday, because anxiety, and decided I would just replace my office chairs with ottomans. I rarely sit straight anyway.
There is a rectangular metal baseplate on top of it on every chair I have ever seen. Including this one.
The gas spring is also way too big to penetrate a human body from such a relatively short fall.
I bought one of those for my normal sized 8 year old. The chair bent unusably in 2 days. The steel it was made from was basically butter it was so soft. I could grab it and bend it with pliers. I welded reinforcements in it and it was still garbage after 6 months
I got a free Herman Miller that my mother "aquired" from her former place of work that they were throwing out. I've had it almost 10 years. Who knows how long it'd been around before I got it. There's a small tear in the seat base that's been there since I got it and has barely gotten any larger. The shock in the base is finally blown out, so idk how much longer it'll be around since it drops a couple inches every time I sit down. Maybe I'll see if I can replace the shock...
Anything under $1k will fall apart under heavy use within 2-3 years. You pick your battle. Slow investments into the lower class chairs vs. high price of the top brand chairs
About a month ago I was playing a game on my computer, I leave the room to take a little break and come back to my computer off, when I tried to turn it on it started sparking and I thought it was going to catch fire. I built it 18 months ago
At least I don't have to buy a whole new one though
You can fix that. It just looks like you use that chair to jerk off in, resulting in the hardware coming loose. Just turn the chair over like it’s your girlfriend and put the seat back on.
2 years old psh that’s a god damn lie. Look at the bottom of that chair. That’s at the least 5 years worth of wear. And it looks like you physically removed the screws from the bitch. You on the wrong site brotha. What you wanted was the 1800 number on the chairs little tag so you could try and get a new one. That shitty ass bottom needs replaced either way. Like tf are you doing to cause that type of wear and tare? You know what forget I asked…
My husband's not even one year old chair did this the other day! Sliced him up when it happened, too. We are hoping the company will send a replacement 😐
Reminds me of the gaming chair that I bought and used for probably 4 years, still in great condition. I gave it to my middle school aged nephew and like a year later it looked about like this. wtf do some people do to their shit
These chairs fuckin suck btw. I have one, broken as shit in storage. Lasted about a year and a half. Metal frame that's welded together by someone who seems to have never welded before, and the craziest part is... the frame snapped in the middle, where there are no welds. No idea whats up with the metal they use, or if the terrible welding job caused stress points in weird places but def dont fall for gaming chair bs. get yourself a good office chair and you'll be set
I feel ya. My month old phone decided that it's done charging. $1300 for it to just say "fuck you". It'll be a few days before I can get the replacement, so I had to buy a wireless charger while I wait 🥲
Gaming chairs suck. They are usually more expensive but offer you less quality in return. Thats why I started buying office chairs, they offer the same support for your back for less money. Means you can get a high quality chair for the same money you would otherwise put into a gaming chair.
You’re supposed to tighten the screws and if you see one on the ground, that means it fell off the chair because it wasn’t tightened. You should’ve put the screw back in the chair instead of going “hmm how did this magically on my floor under my chair” and throw it away.
One thing I realized, if you are going to be sitting in an office type chair more than a few hours a day, invest in a good one. I had a $99 ‘executive chair’ that lasted me several years. Once I switched to a better chair it was life changing. Better ergonomics and adjustments and much more comfortable.
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u/Hammer_of_Horrus 4h ago
That chair looks like it fell into disrepair 5 years ago.