JansenSensei
Epic Member
I am currently looking at buying a replacement chair and figured I'd look into gaming chairs for once (never could understand what makes a chair a "gaming" device so I never really looked into it before). It seems that every store and their dog is selling RogueWare chairs and yet it seems the only info you can find about these chairs is what is copy pasted between the different sites. Heck, maybe my Google skills are severely lacking but it seems like Rogueware doesn't even have a website!?
How is it that every store and their dog sells a product for thousands of Rands and the company making them doesn't even have a website? :O Is it possible that a company can exist which supplies so many stores yet DOESN'T have it's own website or am I just really, really bad at using Google?
Since a single chair can cost up to 2 months gross salary I would like to know what makes them worth it compared to a R200 chair from the local pawn shop but some of the chairs I have seen say "This chair has a cross stitch pattern which makes it awesome" and I am just left scratching my head or picking my mouth up from the floor... I have to pay R6000 extra just so the chair has a diamond pattern? Really!? WTF?
So I look at different brands and I read a couple of interesting things about a couple of different ones and finally I know more or less what to ask for when I am looking for a chair... but the info I get from one site is completely lacking on another for another brand. For instance: Brand 1: We use memory foam / Brand 2: We use a steel frame / Brand 3: We use a steel frame and metal allow solid base / Brand 4: We use metal, pvc and wood (not telling you where, just know that some parts are one of these pieces) / Brand 5: We use cross stitching to improve your gaming excellence ...
Prices range from expensive to ludicrous and yet the info on the chairs are so limited, made up for with 4 pages worth of pictures showing how the arm piece can be rotated... but RogueWare is the one brand you can rest assured you will find everywhere but nowhere will you find any info that you haven't already read word for word on another site. So what's their deal?
I was looking at the XL-1315 cause it was the cheapest one I could find (i.e. expensive) but only by reading the user review of another model did I learn that the OTHER model has a metal base and the 1315.. "well,buy it and see"... or go to the website and learn more about it there... one day... when care enough about their products to build a website for it... Whaaaaaat? They couldn't even bother to create a website for their products and yet every site and their dog is asking a fortune for these same products?
What gives, man? :O
The only thing I can think of that makes any kind of sense is that they only sell to shops and thus they reckon: "People don't need to know anything other than the 3 lines of info and the accompanying 80 pics we gave the suppliers" and based on that info we should pay whatever price for whatever model and just wait and see what we get when it gets here... But surely I must be wrong... :O
So I ask again: What gives!? Do I just suck at using Google or what?
From what I've gathered about them, here is what I would like to know when I look at a chair:
Does it support my weight? (Few do but some don't even care to list that info)
Does it have a metal or plastic base? (Again, some mention it and others leave you hanging with at least ONE surprised buyer discovering: Wow! This one has a metal base! Awesome!)
Does it recline? (The ones at Game either make me fall over backwards or literally catapult me out of the chair)
What makes this one worth R3000 or R8000 when both offer the same answers to the previous 3 questions?
Why is it so had to find these answers? Especially the last one!
WootWare had a RogueWare on sale last week for under R3000 and it supported 200Kg, had a metal base and reclined (not as much as others but I think a 180 degree recline is a bit overkill anyway so this is fine)... but other chairs cost way more than double the price and offer the same answers as above. The very fact that RogueWarehas no website made em think that it is a piece of c*** brand and not worth spending R10 on so I let that sale pass me by. Now it seems the cheapest chair I can find that meets my requirements costs R4000... So what's the deal? Why could I get a RogueWare for R2400 tht matches what I can get now for R4000 which matches another brand for R8000+ ... with such limited info available on the chairs, how can one possibly make an informeddecision on how many months worth of salary to sink into a chair?
Honestly, I am thinking it would be far cheaper to buy a living room set and having myself a couch or a lay-z-boy for a gaming chair... can't see why that is not a viable option since the info on the chairs is being treated as top secret info that may only be revealed after sale...
How is it that every store and their dog sells a product for thousands of Rands and the company making them doesn't even have a website? :O Is it possible that a company can exist which supplies so many stores yet DOESN'T have it's own website or am I just really, really bad at using Google?
Since a single chair can cost up to 2 months gross salary I would like to know what makes them worth it compared to a R200 chair from the local pawn shop but some of the chairs I have seen say "This chair has a cross stitch pattern which makes it awesome" and I am just left scratching my head or picking my mouth up from the floor... I have to pay R6000 extra just so the chair has a diamond pattern? Really!? WTF?
So I look at different brands and I read a couple of interesting things about a couple of different ones and finally I know more or less what to ask for when I am looking for a chair... but the info I get from one site is completely lacking on another for another brand. For instance: Brand 1: We use memory foam / Brand 2: We use a steel frame / Brand 3: We use a steel frame and metal allow solid base / Brand 4: We use metal, pvc and wood (not telling you where, just know that some parts are one of these pieces) / Brand 5: We use cross stitching to improve your gaming excellence ...
Prices range from expensive to ludicrous and yet the info on the chairs are so limited, made up for with 4 pages worth of pictures showing how the arm piece can be rotated... but RogueWare is the one brand you can rest assured you will find everywhere but nowhere will you find any info that you haven't already read word for word on another site. So what's their deal?
I was looking at the XL-1315 cause it was the cheapest one I could find (i.e. expensive) but only by reading the user review of another model did I learn that the OTHER model has a metal base and the 1315.. "well,buy it and see"... or go to the website and learn more about it there... one day... when care enough about their products to build a website for it... Whaaaaaat? They couldn't even bother to create a website for their products and yet every site and their dog is asking a fortune for these same products?
What gives, man? :O
The only thing I can think of that makes any kind of sense is that they only sell to shops and thus they reckon: "People don't need to know anything other than the 3 lines of info and the accompanying 80 pics we gave the suppliers" and based on that info we should pay whatever price for whatever model and just wait and see what we get when it gets here... But surely I must be wrong... :O
So I ask again: What gives!? Do I just suck at using Google or what?
From what I've gathered about them, here is what I would like to know when I look at a chair:
Does it support my weight? (Few do but some don't even care to list that info)
Does it have a metal or plastic base? (Again, some mention it and others leave you hanging with at least ONE surprised buyer discovering: Wow! This one has a metal base! Awesome!)
Does it recline? (The ones at Game either make me fall over backwards or literally catapult me out of the chair)
What makes this one worth R3000 or R8000 when both offer the same answers to the previous 3 questions?
Why is it so had to find these answers? Especially the last one!
WootWare had a RogueWare on sale last week for under R3000 and it supported 200Kg, had a metal base and reclined (not as much as others but I think a 180 degree recline is a bit overkill anyway so this is fine)... but other chairs cost way more than double the price and offer the same answers as above. The very fact that RogueWarehas no website made em think that it is a piece of c*** brand and not worth spending R10 on so I let that sale pass me by. Now it seems the cheapest chair I can find that meets my requirements costs R4000... So what's the deal? Why could I get a RogueWare for R2400 tht matches what I can get now for R4000 which matches another brand for R8000+ ... with such limited info available on the chairs, how can one possibly make an informeddecision on how many months worth of salary to sink into a chair?
Honestly, I am thinking it would be far cheaper to buy a living room set and having myself a couch or a lay-z-boy for a gaming chair... can't see why that is not a viable option since the info on the chairs is being treated as top secret info that may only be revealed after sale...
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