don’t know.....it broke !!!! chairs

The reports, as CPSC published them

1. No one hurt

   Made Aug 29, 2018 · , sent to the company Sep 19, 2018 · , published by CPSC Oct 3, 2018

   The product, in the report: Desk Chair...it was black. I don’t know what the name was, but under the chair stuck a tag with the address on:1--- Zhejiang Qianglong Seating Co. Ltd., The South Of Huangshu, Dipi Town, Anji County, Zhejiang Province, China 313300 2--- Reg # PA-25917(CN)

   Sir/Mam:

   Last Friday I sat on my desk chair, I leaned-back using my back.......and something “snapped”. Now, I knew these “Chinese-made chairs” are made “to see how fast they come off the assembly-line”, but Holy Crap !!!!!! Now, I know you want us to continue buying those chairs, but not “Those Chairs” !!! I have had the chair since the start of 2017 (didn’t realize I’d have to hang onto the receipt, to tell someone the date I messed-up it). I purchased the chair at Wal-Malt in Dilworth, MN.....brand new. Over time (which I don’t understand because it was in perfect “health”), the chair “snapped” and I was lucky that I paid attention to it all. At first, I “felt” like I was having a grand-mal seizure (I have epilepsy since 1973), but was still able to “grab” the wall to my right---and then fell to the right of my chair, onto the floor. Not a thing happened to me, physically !!! Nothing. Now, the two bolts were snapped right from the “plastic” that the two bolts originally were screwed-onto. IF the same thing happened, but not just on one side, but to BOTH sides at the same time, a person would fall backwards.......a consumer (me) would fall back. The two arm-rests act as braces, and the two, hold up the back-rest and the seat. For a while, and then it’s a guessing game.......who knows. Four (cuatro, vier, fire, quatre, etc.) screws, that’s all! Four screws on each arm-rest hold ya up until it breaks. You can guess it might break when you first buy it, or maybe after a month or two when ya tighten the 4x2=8....8 screws......eight screws to tighten every 3-4 months. I’m not buying that [REDACTED] again. Now in the last week, I’ve been scared to sit onto any chair.....ANY CHAIR. Those “Chinese made chairs”, sure, advertise then on eBay or Amazon or Wal-Mart or Target or Menards or Office Depot, or.....! It was about 1:00 a.m., and after that crap, I saw how to purchase those same arm-rests as “spare-parts”. You know how much it would cost to buy a second chair (that’s exactly how they work.....sell one, hope it breaks after the warranty, then sell another). It will break within a few years. You know how much it costs to buy “spare parts”.......I bought the chair last year, (went into the hospital for four months), was home-bound for a couple of months this year, ..... of the 20 or so months I’ve had the chair, I was out 6-7 months (laying in the hospital, Eventide, etc.). It cost me $75 for that chair.......OK, spare parts, for 2 of the arm-rests it would cost me $59. I’m 200 pounds, sometimes less if I’m in the hospital. Yesterday, I couldn’t find any serial number, model number, or any #’s for that matter, until I looked under the seat of the chair, and here’s what it says on a sheet of paper: Reg # PA-25917(CN) I can’t imagine what it costs for a desk-chair today.......compared to the desk-chair 50 years ago.

   Best Wishes;

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   Model

   don’t know.....it broke

   UPC

   PA-25917(CN)

   Serial number

   PA-25917(CN)

   Bought from

   WalMart

   Bought

   Jan 19, 2017

   Where

   Hawley, Minnesota: Home/Apartment/Condominium

   Who was involved

   Age 57, Male

   The reporter’s relation to them

   Self

   As this report names them

   Brand don’t know.....it broke !!!!, made or sold by Zhejiang Qianglong Seating Co., Ltd.

   How badly, in CPSC’s words

   Incident, No Injury

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