I'm well aware of that, but how many offices do you think are full of £500+ chairs (regardless of brand) vs those full of <£100 chairs?
Besides, do you think something like a Herman miller actually costs £1000+ to produce? Of course not, it's still marketing you're paying for
Except HM doesn’t have to do that much marketing, and you don’t have to pay HM prices to get chairs that are good for your back.
Obviously smaller businesses will use cheap chairs, medium and larger will use corporate contracts and can assure you that almost none of those will use Secretlabs etc because they are not good for you, and massively overpriced.
yes HM won’t cost £1000 to produce, obviously that isn’t how business works, but compare the quality of a decent office chair that costs the same as a secretlabs and it’s light years ahead, secretlabs are essentially not much beyond and arguably worse than a £50-100 chair as it’s just cheap materials and people pay for the looks and brand. There is a reason that brands like HM can resell many years later for still prices like £300-500 and it isn’t marketing. How many 10 year old secretlabs chairs do you think there will be selling for anything beyond £20 or so? There won’t be any around that time because they’re cheaply made and low quality. I’d a £70 chair would do for an office, they’re not going to pay £400 off for one that’s as good as that £70 chair but costs £400 and lasts 2 years on average, probably less.
again, the reason offices aren’t full of secretlabs chairs is absolutely nothing to do with the cost of secretlabs and everything to do with the quality of the product and what it’s used for. Health and safety claims would be through the roof if people uses them for task chairs, and businesses want long warranties or service contracts, neither of which SL etc offer, in fact they actively fake reviews, use bots in Reddit to AstroTurf and try to get out of warranties as much as possible.
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