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Seating Mind

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Seating Mind has a rating of 2.2 stars from 444 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Seating Mind most frequently mention customer service, credit card and aeron chair. Seating Mind ranks 57th among Office Furniture sites.

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52
value
51
shipping
52
returns
39
quality
48
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California
1 review
27 helpful votes
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Scam
April 7, 2020

Impossible reviews. This site must be a scam too. All I can find are complaints and negative reviews of Seating Mind. The company is known for damaged goods and non-delivery of orders, refusal to cancel or give refunds even within 2 hours of placing order. Customer service is non-existent. Seating Mind is no longer authorized to do business per Department of Treasury. Check out Better Business rating and review.

Date of experience: April 7, 2020
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I ordered two chairs over two months ago, and I have received nothing. Any time I email them I keep getting this auto reply emails saying that my order is ready for shipment, but that's it. Their phone says you are reaching them after hours and there is no other way to contact them but through email. I think this web page is a scam... I dont know who they got away with the 4 plus rate that they have online. I order on line the chairs with them because I thought it was a legitimate company. I am so mad right now!

Date of experience: September 4, 2020
Louisiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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12 Year warranty is a lie
May 19, 2022

We purchased our Herman Miller chair about 3 years ago and were very pleased. They one day the hydraulic cylinder failed. The seat went to the floor and would not come up. I contacted SeatingMind, they directed me to the warranty page which stated "The warranty covers the entire chair's mechanics for 12 years from the date of purchase". But customer service response was "Since the chair has been in your possession for 3 years and it worked just fine the cause of the cylinder failing is NOT under our responsibility". How's that for a 12 year Mechanical warranty.

Date of experience: May 19, 2022
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Received broken chair, returned the product but yet to receive refund after 6 months. They came up with lame excuse, they have big in the system and not able to process refunds. I even did transaction dispute with the credit card company.

Please avoid this company, they are shameless, that's all I can say...!

Date of experience: August 20, 2022
Washington
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Too Good To Be True
November 8, 2018

The reviews here are the truth. We ordered 68 chairs total and we have yet to receive them all. What we have received we got weeks later than promised, 18 of the chairs were the wrong chair entirely, and we are still waiting for deliver of the last two.

Customer service is slow if you get any response at all.

I hope people can see these and not the "Shopper Approved" garbage saying nearly 5 starts.

Date of experience: November 8, 2018
North Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Purchased several years ago and very happy with that first chair and everything worked as expected. Ordered a new chair this year for family member and it did not extend or lower and received without the upgraded wheels we paid for. Contacted customer service and have not been able to get anywhere with repairing chair or getting the upgraded wheels we paid for. Realize this is refurbished, but paid a lot of money for this to work out of the box. Customer service asked me to remove covers and send pictures, but then does not follow up at all and eventually stop responding. Horrible customer service from once a reliable company. They have gone down hill!

Date of experience: June 3, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Good prices and shipping but don't honor warranty
December 15, 2022

Purchased a Herman Miller chair from Seatingmind in May. Product was received promptly and was as described. The chair developed a crack in the arm cushion, possibly due to the support not extending the full length of the cushion or because of a material defect. I requested a replacement cushion, but was told that "the warranty doesn't cover that". There was no clause in the warranty that would have excluded this problem that happened after only 6 months of use. Customer support is not responding to my request for a reason why the item is excluded. Not happy about this experience.

Date of experience: December 14, 2022
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Long wait for shipping and mediocre product
September 11, 2022

Took several weeks to receive the chair and the chair had several blemishes such as dirt, grease, nicks in the rubber and larges scratches on the stainless base. Not nearly as nice as the chair pictured when I purchased online. I'd describe the condition of the chair as average versus good / refurbished.

Date of experience: September 11, 2022
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Took a month for it to arrive, presumably because of covid, and it is too low for a standard desk. Something is wrong with the cylinder, minor issue but ergonomically taxing for my forearms. After reading the reviews i was concerned I had been ripped off. However, they have been very responsive and sent a replacement cylinder. However I made the chair high enough by ordering new casters off amazon that are rollerblade wheels and add enough height. Otherwise the herman miller aeron is very comfortable but I guess when you buy a used chair it's not going to have issues.

Date of experience: October 29, 2020

Defective, customer service does not exist
October 21, 2020
Previous review

Took more than a month for the chair to arrive and now it's too low for a standard height desk. Did everything i could googling to figure out how to raise it with adjustment screw underneath, doesn't work. Terrible wrist pain from poor ergonomics, i'm so frustrated. Their customer service is non existent. Don't waste your money with this company.

Date of experience: October 21, 2020
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have now purchased three Humanscale Freedom chairs from Seating Mind, and I would only consider buying chairs from them in the future. Their refurbished chairs are as good as new. Their prices are exceptional and their customer service is prompt, friendly and effective.

Date of experience: November 30, 2020
Florida
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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After reading a lot of negative reviews and some good ones I decided to purchase a refurbished Herman Miller Aeron chair from Seating Mind. I have been in business most of my life and know that a bad customer experience is shared with as many as possible. With a good experience only a handful of people are told about it. I purchased this chair back in November and was full aware that it would take at least 3 weeks to be delivered. I received the chair before Christmas despite all the package delays due to volume and weather. It is a great chair and my shopping and customer service experience were exceptional. If you're thinking about purchasing a chair from Seating Mind I highly recommend them.

Date of experience: December 28, 2020
Illinois
1 review
12 helpful votes
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As other reviews have detailed, I received a notice that product shipped with a tracking number and it never shipped. It has been over 10 days. Customer service is rude and simply hangs up when asked for information.

Date of experience: January 10, 2019
Jacob K. Seating Mind Rep
over a year old

Thank you for your order. We are sorry it took longer than you expected, Our records show that the chair was already en-route to you at the time the review was posted.
We are confident that you are satisfied with your Herman Miller Aeron chairs and would now give it a 5 star review. We hope you can take the time to share that with us.
If you have any other issues, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our customer service team works tirelessly to assist all customer concerns.

Pennsylvania
1 review
2 helpful votes
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SCAM - DO NOT BUY FROM HERE
September 28, 2023

Unfortunately, this company will send you a disgustingly dirty, VERY used chair. Then they will give you a hard time for trying to return it, despite their satisfaction guaranteed. Then, after they receive your return, they won't refund the money, and they ignore any attempts to contact them about it. DO NOT BUY FROM HERE.

Date of experience: September 28, 2023
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Nightmare to deal with
September 15, 2022

After 2 weeks of waiting for any kind of information to be sent to me, the feeling that I got scammed start to become very overwhelming. Reached out and nobody ever try to reach back out to me. I feel like they are out here trying to scam people. Cation ordering from this website. They're 5 star reviews look like bot reviews. Nothing about them are 5 stars lol. If you look at the 1 star reviews you'll see people in the same boat I was in. Im going to do everything in my power to have Google remove this scam site from top searches.

Date of experience: September 15, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
7 helpful votes
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This company said they shipped my chair 10 days ago. FEDEX shows no delivery progress, only the completion of a delivery request. The origin is less than 200 miles from my house.

The company is not listed under resellerratings.com or the Better Business Bureau. I am very suspicious.

Date of experience: January 7, 2019
Jacob K. Seating Mind Rep
over a year old

We are sorry your order did not arrive when you expected, however it seems it did arrive a day after you posted your review, and within the timeframe shown on our site.
We hope you are satisfied with your purchase and will share that with others. If you have any additional questions or concerns feel free to contact us at cs@seatingmind.com

Massachusetts
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I have left reviews elsewhere regarding my smelly, old chair and its order and delivery process. What really gets me is that the review site that the firm has a contract with (they ping you as soon as your order is completed) is a total scam. My critical review was removed about a day after posting. The reviews are largely positive because respondents are completing the form before experiencing the delivery process, the products themselves, or the customer service. STAY AWAY.

Date of experience: June 4, 2020
Georgia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Ordered a 650$ chair. Allegedly "in stock"--- no delivery and repeated promises about the date... finally cancelled and they swore they's refund me within a week. Fortunately AMEX will refund me!

This is bogus... stay away.

Date of experience: October 10, 2019
North Carolina
1 review
8 helpful votes
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This is a fraud business meant to cheat buyers. Should be reported to law enforcement. Save yourself and go somewhere else!
I bought a chair early May. I received the product in June - it did not look new (there was no mention of the product being refurbished or used on the website). It was a defective product as the backrest would not align with the body of the chair. There was no instruction booklet either in the package.
Asked for a refund, they kept 20% ($100) and refunded only 80%.

Date of experience: July 6, 2020
Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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POOR customer service
October 14, 2020

I bought an expensive Steelcase Chair from them. It was great for about 6 months, then the cylinder broke and it would no longer stay up. I wrote them initially in December of 2019, and they wrote back and gave me instructions on how to fix it myself. The instructions were poor and I could not follow them, so I asked for help. They did not reply so I wrote to Steelcase, who wrote back and showed me the very small disclaimer on seating mind's website that this company is not an official seller of their product, so no warranty comes from steelcase for their chairs.

I then had a friend come over and try the "repair", but when the seat was removed through a lot of effort, the cylinder was not the same kind as the one in the instructions and there was no repair that could be done. I wrote back a couple more times, no acknowledgment of my supposed 5 year warranty. I checked with the local steelcase seller and they wanted 300.00 to repair it.

They SUCK. Do not buy anything from them.

Date of experience: October 14, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Find another vendor
September 6, 2021

I strongly advise against from buying from Seating Mind. I had a problem with an order and have gotten no response to multiple emails and voice mails. My next step is to contest the purchase with my credit card company. Very disappointed with the company. Stay away!

Date of experience: September 6, 2021