Decent Desk Chairs

[Raumarik]

I have a Hermin Miller Aeron as my office chair, a Herman Miller Mira as my home office chair and I can sit on them for 12 hours with zero back issues (not that I would sit that long without moving) I had a Markus for 3 months. Whether you agree or not one gave me back pain, it wobbled after time, a wheel broke and after 2 months I had massive coccyx issues. It is therefore in my experience a bad seat if, like me you suffer from a weakness of the pelvis (it twists) which in turn exposes the coccyx it is not of a good enough quality to prevent that.

To my point, if you are fine then these things do not show themselves so I can understand how you think it's great but I don't feel the need to buyer justify either as I bought one and in my experience it was garbage.

Each to their own however and I agree go try a few OP but sitting in a seat for 15 minutes in a shop will show you nothing.

If you had back issues etc then you should have a specialist chair which is very adjustable and not something from Ikea, that's common sense. It does not however mean that everyone needs one, you have a bad back, amongst other issues, I do not. I'm far more likely to have a bad back after the cheap chair I'm having to use at work than the Markus.

You're comments however make it sounds as if the Markus caused your bad back, if so, please let us know how you got on with the legal case against them.

There are dozens of OCUK members who have Markus and gaming chairs and have used them without problem for years.

 

[Caged]

Where's the seat depth and tilt tension adjustment on the Markus? It's a poorly specced chair designed for occasional home office use. If that's all your after then that's fine, but that doesn't mean that significantly better options aren't out there.

When a bit of effort is all that's required to find a used £600 chair for the same price as home office specials then you'd be crazy to buy anything else.

 

[Housey]

If you had back issues etc then you should have a specialist chair which is very adjustable and not something from Ikea, that's common sense. It does not however mean that everyone needs one, you have a bad back, amongst other issues, I do not. I'm far more likely to have a bad back after the cheap chair I'm having to use at work than the Markus.

You're comments however make it sounds as if the Markus caused your bad back, if so, please let us know how you got on with the legal case against them.

There are dozens of OCUK members who have Markus and gaming chairs and have used them without problem for years.

There are plenty who also found them rubbish. Your point about the legal case is childish.

 

[this_is_gav]

I got a refurbished Humanscale Freedom from Ebay for £205 (offered £170+£35 delivery - which for once was justified when I saw the pallet it came on!) and whilst it's very good I wish I could move the base out a bit further - I feel my legs are hanging out of the front too much. It does seem to have good lumber support, but I've not spent much time in it yet to see what it's like for prolonged use.

It's quite adjustable - height, the base moves forward and back, back height, head support height and the arm rests too (though that adjustment is rubbish on mine). I doubt I'll use the reclining option much (and thus the head rest), but I suppose it's there.