Memory Foam Seat Cushion

I needed a memory foam cushion that I could use in numerous instances, and went to the various stores, either seeing ones that were just plain gimmicky to the ones that were $125.00 in the health care stores.

I couldn't afford the high priced quality ones so I did some on-line searching and found Champion Seating and they had the perfect seat cushion called Ride-the-Pine.

I got one and now my friends have too. For an elderly person on a tight budget, and no extra money to waste, I found a winner!

If their chairs are like this cushion, I may be getting one of those too, as they were 1/2 the price of the most expensive cushions I saw.

Thanks MP

My budget mesh chair has problems..Can you help?

I purchased a mesh chair from Office Max and the mesh was comfortable at first, but now it sags and has no support value. It is beginning to look more like a fish net, a strainer etc. I paid over $200 and thought I was getting a good chair, but now I feel that I got what I paid for; a budget chair at a budget price to lure me in the door to sell me all the other things such as paper, pens, electronic equipment.

I think these stores serve a purpose, but a chair for all day sitting is not what I got. Can you help me?

Matt

Thanks for your question. we do see this happen in numerous circumstances, as many of these chairs look very similar, but don't have the high quality standards we do. Many times you see these chairs have little or no warranty, and the stores are not interested in either servicing them or getting any type of monetary satisfaction allowance.

Chair designs are very similar and sometimes in person, or even on the Internet, seem very smiler in "shape" but it is so easy to deceive the customer just because they look so much alike. Therein lies one of the primary problems, followed buy cheap components and materials.

I wish I could say we could reupholster the mash for you in a high grade such as we use, but it would be very costly and in the end the price (the refurb + their price originally) would be about the same if you had purchased one of our mesh chairs.

The best I can say is 'grin and bear it' and when you are ready to replace it, then check out our winning line-up of ergonomic office chairs at Champion Seating Co.

Thanks for the Fabric Samples

I love the new and easy to use web site.
Thanks for the free t-shirt offer I will take a size XXL t shirt -- thanks!

And also wanted to thank you for the generously sized and promptly shipped fabric samples that I requested -- that made choosing a fabric so much easier!

Linda B.

Chair Parts .. Lifeform Office Chair

Hi:

I purchased a LIFEFORM chair, Model #3693 a few years ago in Maryland.
The foam arms of the chair are falling apart, and need to be replaced. Do you sell the replacement arms? Please let me know.

Thank you-
Peter

Actually we manufacturer a chair very similar to the Lifeform chair, but do not have chair parts that fit exactly to their chairs. We find that the Superstores (Office Max, Office Depot, Staples) as well as others make it almost impossible to get a part for a chair. Although your chair is not a cheap Asian import, the cheap Asian import chairs are just plain cheap....quality, value, comfort.

That is why we sell direct and we know our customers and they know us.

We will be focusing on replacement parts for chairs very soon, with the roll-out of our new web-site design, and the new chairs we will be offering. We will stress Go-GREEN as we will offer a variety of easily accessible replacement parts. It goes back to the theory of "it is not what the chair costs; but what it costs to own the office chair for a long period of time."

Just Got My Chair!

Dear Champion folks,

Hooray, I'm doing the happy dance, my new chair arrived! I received my new chair, thank you. The memory foam seat is wonderful, the upholstery is beautiful. Just want to tell you!!!!

I just received my MVP office chair

Now THERE'S one happy customer! Custom fit, just right in every possible way.

Thanks so much! :)

Sharon

Understanding Memory Foam

I get a lot of pain in my buttocks when I sit. Your explanation about "body shear" is the first explanation that makes sense to me. Therefore, I am very interested in your MVP office desk chair, with "the molded and contoured seat that is specifically designed to eliminate body shear." However, the reasons you give for using the soft memory foam in the seat make a lot of sense, too. Can you combine these two features? That is, do you sell the MVP chair with the molded and contoured seat that is specifically designed to eliminate body shear made of the soft memory foam? If not, which one would you recommend would be best for me: the chair made with memory foam, OR the MVP molded and contoured seat that is specifically designed to eliminate body shear? Please reply as soon as possible.

Thank you,
Diane


Dear Diane,

The first thing is to give a little background of regular foam so you understand what it is and the various differences. Standard or Regular foam is commonly referred to as HR foam. The HR stands for High Resiliency. This foam will basically push back at the seated user the same pressure as is exerted upon it. So if you push your finger into the foam, applying 3 pounds of pressure, then the foam will attempt to return to its' molded shape and exert the same 3 pounds of pressure against your finger.

Why do we contour HR foam? It is basically compared in the old metal tractor seat format. The metal tractor seats of old were shaped to apply as much contact to the users seat as possible. This helped keep the user in the seat, over bumpy ground conditions, as well as keep the user stable to operate the vehicle better and safely, and lastly it did increase the amount of surface area against the user. A similar application is a ball on a table has little surface contact and a piece of paper is in full contact.

We contour the HR foam to help with spreading out the users body contact, and go a step further in using Super High Quality foam, just like you would have in an expensive automobile. The budget superstores have the lowest grade of foam in most all cases, it is just short of being Styrofoam. As a woman you can compare it to buying diamonds, color, cut, clarity, carrot weight. Poor quality foam bottoms out, and squishy soft foam bottoms out as well.

Memory foam is popular in that it increases the sheer even more. It is more expensive, and since the foam will relax when the user is seated, it does not require as much contour. Contour helps but is not as necessary as HR foam above. Contour helps the user get in the same sitting points consistently. We have some contour in the foam. As in the "finger pressure" as stated above, memory foam which is in reality Energy Absorbing Foam, relaxes when the 3 pounds of pressure is applied, and resists pushing pressure back at your finger. The foams cell structure actually relaxes and this is desirable. When you remove your finger, the foam slowly goes back to its' original molded shape, hence the term Memory Foam. (HR has a memory too, just much faster)

It a nut shell answer Memory Foam is the best, but sometimes is a hard first-sit, as the foam take a few seconds to begin the relax-process. In cold climates the foam is slightly harder, those cold offices in winter, but the users body heat counteracts the cold office air.

We will introduce a new Memory Foam shortly, both anti-microbial, and less resistant to cold office environments.