Staples has
Tempur-Pedic TP9000 Mesh Task / Office Chair (Black) on sale for $229.99 - $20 with coupon code
84120 (apply in cart) - $20 with coupon code
17556 (apply in cart) =
$189.99.
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Product Features- Black mesh upholstery allows air to circulate
- High-back design offers adequate support to neck and head
- Overall dimensions: 37.7-40.2"H x 26.8"W x 26.8"D
- Seat dimensions: 20.1"W x 24.8"D
- Back dimensions: 21.7"W x 27.6"H
- Width and height adjustable arms allow you to rest your forearms comfortably
- 250-Lb weight rating
- Assembly required
Staples also has
Tempur-Pedic TP6400 Fabric Computer and Desk Chair (Black) on sale for $239.99 - $20 with coupon code
84120 (apply in cart) - $20 with coupon code
17556 (apply in cart) =
$199.99.
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Product Features- This chair provides lumbar support
- Overall dimensions: 46.75-50.25"H x 28.5"W x 28.75"D
- Seat dimensions: 20.5"W x 19.5"D
- Height-adjustable arms to support the shoulders and upper body
- 275-Lb weight rating
Top Comments
I got some news for you:
1) You're looking at this sub-$200 chair probably because you looked at Aeron's for 2 seconds and decided you can't afford a $1000 chair no matter how much your back hurts. News flash: chairs are not medicine. Chairs cannot cure back pain, and especially not by themselves. It's completely possible, and actually very common, to buy a $1500 Aeron and still sit poorly and end up with back pain. Something as simple as working on a laptop, even while seated in a $1500 chair, can and will cause back/neck pain. Why? A laptop has its screen too low to the desk. Even if you sit in a $1500 Aeron that pushes on your sacrum to create the healthy lordotic curve in your lumbar spine if you're working on a laptop on a desk, you're almost definitely bending your neck down to see the screen, and that means you're using your neck muscles to dangle a 10-pound head in mid-air, and that means you're creating an unhealthy kyphotic curve in your thoracic spine. In other words--if you've only got $200 to spend on upgrading your home office, then I highly recommend starting with the very basic and cheapest fixes, such as elevating your laptop screen to eye height. Or even if you're using an external monitor--most external monitors are too low and lack height adjustment. Most external monitors come with bases that lift the screen like 1.2" off your desk. The base is just a formality. A $40 monitor arm from Amazon would go a long way. A stack of books or papers under an external monitor is free and would also go a long way toward relieving tension in your neck from bending your head down to view the screen.
2) Other common ergonomic mistakes include table height. Maybe you're working at the kitchen table, which is almost definitely too high for you, and you aren't eager to buy a new chair AND a new table. No chair is going to save your health when you're resting your ulnar nerve against the hard edge of the table while typing because the table is too high. If your table is too high, maybe put buy a box of the click-lock laminate flooring or two from Home Depot/Lowes and make a sort of elevated base for your chair. Cheaper than a new table.
3) Maybe your chair is too high for you, and your feet are dangling. That just means more weight is applied to your spine. A footrest would go a long way. Old Amazon boxes make for good footrests and are free. 25% of your body weight is supported by your legs while seated. If your legs are dangling off a chair, then that 25% of your body weight has to be absorbed by something, and it's going to be your spine that takes that burden.
Those are just a sample of the things I see people do wrong--including the people who drop $2000 on a fully loaded Herman Miller chair. They end up buying a super nice chair and forget about everything else, and blame all their problems on the chair. My suggestion is always start with the cheap fixes and then work your way up to the expensive fixes. Something as simple as getting off the laptop and getting onto an elevated external monitor or putting your laptop on a pile of books so you aren't craning your neck downard is cheap or FREE and does a lot more than a garbage $180 chair.
Also, people need to stop thinking about Aeron's. Aeron's are the most popular ergonomic office chair by far, but that also makes them the most expensive. Aeron's are like Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton now.
You can find chairs that are easily 80-90% as comfortable as an Aeron and perhaps even 110-120% as comfortable as an Aeron for way, way cheaper on the used market. Here's a sample list of chairs to look for in your used market if you can't afford an Aeron and don't want this Staples Tempur-Pedic chair that has cinderblocks passing as "armrests":
1) Haworth Very. I got 2 for $25 each. 80-90% the comfort of an Aeron, but for 2.5% the price of an Aeron.
2) Steelcase Think. These can be found all day for $50-80. I have sat in ones from as far back as 2005 and the foam cushion is still very comfortable.
3) Herman Miller Celle.
4) Steelcase Amia. Usually in the $40-200 range, and is easily 90% that of an Aeron.
5) Knoll Generation. Found one for $50, has more features than the Aeron and is easily as comfortable as the Aeron.
Basically stop searching for "herman miller Aeron" and giving up after you see the 25-year-old Aerons ones go for $600 a piece. Use your noggin and search up something else, from another company.
If you MUST buy a Staples chair, then the Staples Ayalon is the only chair worth checking out, in my opinion. I've purchased an Ayalon and put it head-to-head against several Herman Miller/Steelcase/Haworth/Knoll chairs and the Ayalon is, in my opinion, no slouch as long as you are relatively tall (6 feet and above). The Ayalon does a passable imitation of an expensive office chair, and at least the Ayalon has somewhat soft armrests, unlike any of the memory foam Tempur-Pedic chairs at Staples. You'd think that memory foam chairs would be soft, but no, go ahead and check out all the armrests on the chairs at Staples ... the Tempur-Pedic's have rubber-coated cinderblocks.
If you're serious about back pain, you should consider getting a used Herman Miller Aeron. It's great for people that actually work. You can get one for around $350 in my area.
If you want the best of both worlds. A chair you can work in, but also lounge in, consider the Steelcase Leap chair. The Aeron isn't really a chair you can lounge in very well.
Tempurpedic cushion is nice, but eventually it will wear out and go flat just like any other padding. The mesh of the Aeron is still good even on used chairs.
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My suggestion to most folks looking immediately for a good chair is to forget that the Aeron ever existed and look into Haworth, Steelcase, and Knoll office chairs instead. Finding a deal on an Aeron is astronomically harder than finding a deal on even a Steelcase Leap, the second most popular office chair of all time.
Focusing on the Aeron is just going to make you depressed. It's like buying 50 lottery tickets every night and never winning. That's what it's like to find an Aeron at a "steal" price (sub-200).
I've literally found at least a dozen high end office chairs at "steal" prices before I found my first Aeron, and the only reason I got the Aeron was because I messaged the seller within 3 minutes of her OfferUp post. The second time I saw an Aeron at a good price, it was gone in 19 minutes. I messaged the seller 19 minutes after he posted and he had a guy on the way.
Had the Aeron chair for a year too and the back support didn't really help my back. A lot people liked the chair and I did like it as well, but just isn't for me.
I ended up getting the Beautyrest chair at staples after sitting and trying out 15 different chairs while in the store.
My advice is to go into the store and chair the chair for yourself first and not just to rely on reviews
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I went ahead and ordered a used Steelcase Amia Chair for around $310.
For those of you wondering, this chair is incredibly stable and I actually just looked at my previous purchase of this (Dec 2013 on a slickdeal via Staples, of course)...this has survived daily sitting plus three different moves and is still going strong. Yes, it creaks sometime after all this time, but it's a great chair and I am legitimately trying to find a reason to buy another one!
I got some news for you:
1) You're looking at this sub-$200 chair probably because you looked at Aeron's for 2 seconds and decided you can't afford a $1000 chair no matter how much your back hurts. News flash: chairs are not medicine. Chairs cannot cure back pain, and especially not by themselves. It's completely possible, and actually very common, to buy a $1500 Aeron and still sit poorly and end up with back pain. Something as simple as working on a laptop, even while seated in a $1500 chair, can and will cause back/neck pain. Why? A laptop has its screen too low to the desk. Even if you sit in a $1500 Aeron that pushes on your sacrum to create the healthy lordotic curve in your lumbar spine if you're working on a laptop on a desk, you're almost definitely bending your neck down to see the screen, and that means you're using your neck muscles to dangle a 10-pound head in mid-air, and that means you're creating an unhealthy kyphotic curve in your thoracic spine. In other words--if you've only got $200 to spend on upgrading your home office, then I highly recommend starting with the very basic and cheapest fixes, such as elevating your laptop screen to eye height. Or even if you're using an external monitor--most external monitors are too low and lack height adjustment. Most external monitors come with bases that lift the screen like 1.2" off your desk. The base is just a formality. A $40 monitor arm from Amazon would go a long way. A stack of books or papers under an external monitor is free and would also go a long way toward relieving tension in your neck from bending your head down to view the screen.
2) Other common ergonomic mistakes include table height. Maybe you're working at the kitchen table, which is almost definitely too high for you, and you aren't eager to buy a new chair AND a new table. No chair is going to save your health when you're resting your ulnar nerve against the hard edge of the table while typing because the table is too high. If your table is too high, maybe put buy a box of the click-lock laminate flooring or two from Home Depot/Lowes and make a sort of elevated base for your chair. Cheaper than a new table.
3) Maybe your chair is too high for you, and your feet are dangling. That just means more weight is applied to your spine. A footrest would go a long way. Old Amazon boxes make for good footrests and are free. 25% of your body weight is supported by your legs while seated. If your legs are dangling off a chair, then that 25% of your body weight has to be absorbed by something, and it's going to be your spine that takes that burden.
Those are just a sample of the things I see people do wrong--including the people who drop $2000 on a fully loaded Herman Miller chair. They end up buying a super nice chair and forget about everything else, and blame all their problems on the chair. My suggestion is always start with the cheap fixes and then work your way up to the expensive fixes. Something as simple as getting off the laptop and getting onto an elevated external monitor or putting your laptop on a pile of books so you aren't craning your neck downard is cheap or FREE and does a lot more than a garbage $180 chair.
Also, people need to stop thinking about Aeron's. Aeron's are the most popular ergonomic office chair by far, but that also makes them the most expensive. Aeron's are like Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton now.
You can find chairs that are easily 80-90% as comfortable as an Aeron and perhaps even 110-120% as comfortable as an Aeron for way, way cheaper on the used market. Here's a sample list of chairs to look for in your used market if you can't afford an Aeron and don't want this Staples Tempur-Pedic chair that has cinderblocks passing as "armrests":
1) Haworth Very. I got 2 for $25 each. 80-90% the comfort of an Aeron, but for 2.5% the price of an Aeron.
2) Steelcase Think. These can be found all day for $50-80. I have sat in ones from as far back as 2005 and the foam cushion is still very comfortable.
3) Herman Miller Celle.
4) Steelcase Amia. Usually in the $40-200 range, and is easily 90% that of an Aeron.
5) Knoll Generation. Found one for $50, has more features than the Aeron and is easily as comfortable as the Aeron.
Basically stop searching for "herman miller Aeron" and giving up after you see the 25-year-old Aerons ones go for $600 a piece. Use your noggin and search up something else, from another company.
If you MUST buy a Staples chair, then the Staples Ayalon is the only chair worth checking out, in my opinion. I've purchased an Ayalon and put it head-to-head against several Herman Miller/Steelcase/Haworth/Knoll chairs and the Ayalon is, in my opinion, no slouch as long as you are relatively tall (6 feet and above). The Ayalon does a passable imitation of an expensive office chair, and at least the Ayalon has somewhat soft armrests, unlike any of the memory foam Tempur-Pedic chairs at Staples. You'd think that memory foam chairs would be soft, but no, go ahead and check out all the armrests on the chairs at Staples ... the Tempur-Pedic's have rubber-coated cinderblocks.
I got some news for you:
1) You're looking at this sub-$200 chair probably because you looked at Aeron's for 2 seconds and decided you can't afford a $1000 chair no matter how much your back hurts. News flash: chairs are not medicine. Chairs cannot cure back pain, and especially not by themselves. It's completely possible, and actually very common, to buy a $1500 Aeron and still sit poorly and end up with back pain. Something as simple as working on a laptop, even while seated in a $1500 chair, can and will cause back/neck pain. Why? A laptop has its screen too low to the desk. Even if you sit in a $1500 Aeron that pushes on your sacrum to create the healthy lordotic curve in your lumbar spine if you're working on a laptop on a desk, you're almost definitely bending your neck down to see the screen, and that means you're using your neck muscles to dangle a 10-pound head in mid-air, and that means you're creating an unhealthy kyphotic curve in your thoracic spine. In other words--if you've only got $200 to spend on upgrading your home office, then I highly recommend starting with the very basic and cheapest fixes, such as elevating your laptop screen to eye height. Or even if you're using an external monitor--most external monitors are too low and lack height adjustment. Most external monitors come with bases that lift the screen like 1.2" off your desk. The base is just a formality. A $40 monitor arm from Amazon would go a long way. A stack of books or papers under an external monitor is free and would also go a long way toward relieving tension in your neck from bending your head down to view the screen.
2) Other common ergonomic mistakes include table height. Maybe you're working at the kitchen table, which is almost definitely too high for you, and you aren't eager to buy a new chair AND a new table. No chair is going to save your health when you're resting your ulnar nerve against the hard edge of the table while typing because the table is too high. If your table is too high, maybe put buy a box of the click-lock laminate flooring or two from Home Depot/Lowes and make a sort of elevated base for your chair. Cheaper than a new table.
3) Maybe your chair is too high for you, and your feet are dangling. That just means more weight is applied to your spine. A footrest would go a long way. Old Amazon boxes make for good footrests and are free. 25% of your body weight is supported by your legs while seated. If your legs are dangling off a chair, then that 25% of your body weight has to be absorbed by something, and it's going to be your spine that takes that burden.
Those are just a sample of the things I see people do wrong--including the people who drop $2000 on a fully loaded Herman Miller chair. They end up buying a super nice chair and forget about everything else, and blame all their problems on the chair. My suggestion is always start with the cheap fixes and then work your way up to the expensive fixes. Something as simple as getting off the laptop and getting onto an elevated external monitor or putting your laptop on a pile of books so you aren't craning your neck downard is cheap or FREE and does a lot more than a garbage $180 chair.
Also, people need to stop thinking about Aeron's. Aeron's are the most popular ergonomic office chair by far, but that also makes them the most expensive. Aeron's are like Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton now.
You can find chairs that are easily 80-90% as comfortable as an Aeron and perhaps even 110-120% as comfortable as an Aeron for way, way cheaper on the used market. Here's a sample list of chairs to look for in your used market if you can't afford an Aeron and don't want this Staples Tempur-Pedic chair that has cinderblocks passing as "armrests":
1) Haworth Very. I got 2 for $25 each. 80-90% the comfort of an Aeron, but for 2.5% the price of an Aeron.
2) Steelcase Think. These can be found all day for $50-80. I have sat in ones from as far back as 2005 and the foam cushion is still very comfortable.
3) Herman Miller Celle.
4) Steelcase Amia. Usually in the $40-200 range, and is easily 90% that of an Aeron.
5) Knoll Generation. Found one for $50, has more features than the Aeron and is easily as comfortable as the Aeron.
Basically stop searching for "herman miller Aeron" and giving up after you see the 25-year-old Aerons ones go for $600 a piece. Use your noggin and search up something else, from another company.
If you MUST buy a Staples chair, then the Staples Ayalon is the only chair worth checking out, in my opinion. I've purchased an Ayalon and put it head-to-head against several Herman Miller/Steelcase/Haworth/Knoll chairs and the Ayalon is, in my opinion, no slouch as long as you are relatively tall (6 feet and above). The Ayalon does a passable imitation of an expensive office chair, and at least the Ayalon has somewhat soft armrests, unlike any of the memory foam Tempur-Pedic chairs at Staples. You'd think that memory foam chairs would be soft, but no, go ahead and check out all the armrests on the chairs at Staples ... the Tempur-Pedic's have rubber-coated cinderblocks.
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If you're serious about back pain, you should consider getting a used Herman Miller Aeron. It's great for people that actually work. You can get one for around $350 in my area.
If you want the best of both worlds. A chair you can work in, but also lounge in, consider the Steelcase Leap chair. The Aeron isn't really a chair you can lounge in very well.
Tempurpedic cushion is nice, but eventually it will wear out and go flat just like any other padding. The mesh of the Aeron is still good even on used chairs.
The only issue was the elbow hand wrest is likely to fall apart, but you can purchase replacements for 25$. They usually chip and come apart pretty easily, basically they are faulty. The positive is usually only partly come apart and are still useable after damage. That is the only weakness of the chairs I purchased. I used crappy 100 to 150 dollar chairs before Temper Pedic, and all of them fell apart within a couple of years. Again, highly recommend Temper Pedic overall. The chairs I purchased are basically bullet proof. And honestly I don't they will ever break, they are that good. The cushions are not for everyone, they can be too hard for some, so be aware of that before purchasing. God bless all, peace!
Edit: Also, I've never had back pain with the chairs I purchased. Again, I ended up getting this specific model feetured here: Tempur-Pedic TP4000 Fabric Task Chair, (TP4000)