Chair gas lift mechanisms

Are they prepared to send you the replacement gas lift mechanism for you to fit yourself? They're pretty easy to fit on the chairs I have. In fact, it's often one of the component parts in cheap self-assembly chairs.

Jon.

i`ve already suggested that and been told it isn`t an option :-)

That's just plain unreasonable - you've given them a very easy, low cost option, and they have refused to take it.

How old is the chair?

Well you can sometimes get a complete gas-lift chair for < £20 tho' you have to assemble it yourself. It sounds like that would be a bonus in your situation as the lifter is one of the parts you get.

Look at Viking Direct or Tesco's websites for ideas. Obviously not top quality at those prices, but might do the job for you. You might have to wait for an offer - but they seem to pop up fairly regularly.

Unless it's the actual manufacturer, they'd have to break open another chair package to get one. Or wait for a spare from manufacturer.

Sure, but that's not a problem. If they're going to have to replace his faulty chair, then it's easier and cheaper for them to just break open a new one and take the strut from it. We do this all the time.

About 3 months.

Hmm, I'm not sure where that leaves you legally. I would generally expect them to pick up the faulty chair if it develops a fault within the first month.

Where did you buy it? Its not your responsibility to get the chair collected/repaired its the retailers. Take it back and ask for a refund/replacement/repair as you want.

Then if you bought it from a retailer, it is the retailers problem. Take it back to the retailer and let them package it up for return.

That`d involve a drive to where-ever ebuyer.com is based, which i`m fairly certain would cost me more in diesel than the chair cost in the first place. :-)

Suggest you make a posting on uk.legal about distance selling regs.

Derek

Which will not help at all. DSR applies to return of unused goods.

Sale Of Goods Act is the one here.

All along I've been making the assumption it would help.

DG

Actually they can be used goods too, but return is because they are not wanted, not because they are broken.