boss bonded leather executive chair

This chair worked well for a few months, until (like a number of other posters) I leaned back and the arms snapped, ruining the chair.

The chair is designed to recline, but the back is fixed, so the whole seat rotates backwards. Alone, this is not a bad thing if you're looking for an office chair and not a Lazy-boy. However, the chair's backrest is attached via the two arms, and NOTHING ELSE. There is no direct support or connection between the base and the back, despite the fact that they do not move. This key design fault means that ALL of the weight against the chair's backrest is born by the arms, and they will be stressed every time you lean backwards.

The chairs arms are a stiff plastic that will fatigue, fracture, and eventually fail. Usually, they will snap in half right next to the bolts. Because the arms are the only support for the back, this means that when the arm snaps, the entire chair is ruined.

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I purchased this chair. I weigh 250 lbs and I like to lean back in the chair. It is almost all plastic and the plastic arms snapped at the points where it is screwed to the seat. I tried epoxy glue - that failed. I tried re-drilling the plastic to the seat base - that failed too. I used huge plastic tie-strips to fix the broken arm (about 6 of them). The side that wasn't broken held (also with 6 tie strips and duct tape), so I recommend that if to buy this chair, get wire or tie-strips and duct tape and maybe a drill to brace the cheap plastic arm supports that hold this chair together, and do that on both sides. It will look really ugly but it should work. By the way, the chair did quite well for about a 2 weeks.

The seat cushion lasted literally for about 3 weeks before it went flat and made the chair uncomfortable to sit on. I'm not even that big of a guy weighing about 170Lbs. I do sit in the chair for about 10 hours a day working from home but come on!