Amazon office chair recommendations

[MatsyLR]

We are swapping to full WFH in 2 weeks (finally) and we have been given a £300 amazon voucher for desk and chair. Not much but will make do. Can get a standing desk for around 150 which will do.

Anyone have any recommendations on the chair side of things? The two most popular I can find from YouTube reviews is Sihoo m18 and Ticova around the same price if just over £100 on promotion currently. Leaning towards the m18 but I tend to cross my legs and worried about seat depth.

Currently have a old dx racer which is way past due

 

[MatsyLR]

Do you have to spend the cash with Amazon - if not - then look for a decent 2nd hand RH Logic. They retail new at £1200 and you will be able to pick one up for about £300 - deffo money well spent - go back to your boss and tell them £300 isnt enough for a desk and a chair - no way!! can you take your office chair home?

Yeah has to be Amazon.
That's the limit unfortunately bought the sihoo M18 being delivered Today hopefully it's fine. Also yeah it's for Home use.

 

[MatsyLR]

Got the chair, amazon messed up my original order and managed to squeeze 25 goodwill, so worked out to 75.

I have 3 complaints.
1. Seat depth is much shorter than my dx racer, makes it difficult to cross legs (although I guess that's a good thing?
2. Lumbar Support is far too aggressive, even the lowest setting, I don't really have a curve in my back at all (something that will cause issues later in life I imagine) I took it out which improved comfort immensely but left it looking rather silly at the back. I managed to screw down the plastic thread further into the Lumbar itself which has taken the edge off, the pad doesn't touch the mesh now until I'm sat in the chair which feels more comfortable to me, need to test for longer period though.
3. The tilt mechanism only has 3 options. Straight up which just feels odd and too upright, all the way back and in the middle. Middle is too far back to make work comfortable and tilts the arm rest/bottom upwards. I'm used to having like 20 different recline positions to get it exactly the way I like that only moves the backrest not the whole chair.

Keeping for the time being to see how it goes. Seems most office chairs at are built like this.

I'm not keen on spending 400 on a secret labs chair (although I'm pretty sure it would be comfortable to me). There are cheap alternatives on Amazon but basically the same as my dx racer with the sides which I'm not fond of.

With the standing desk it's mainly for the middle brace as I want a 200cm long desk and so I can stand if I want.