I had the chairs from a few years ago by a different company. One reason I give them a 3 is that the finish is rough. My original chairs are smooth to the touch, and they were similar in price (actually much cheaper, but they were purchased a few years ago) The other bigger reason is that amongst other stickers on the underside of the seat, they have a huge full length-of-the-wood-strip white sticky thick label on the back of the seat that shows on the surface of the seat because it wraps around the wood on each side. It is taking hours to try to get them off. What a mess!! And I am great at adhesives: from "goo gone," to mayonnaise, to paint scrapers, to Teflon scrapers, to fingernails. Even if the label didn't show on the seating area, I stack the folded chairs in the kitchen where the undersides show. Who wants ugly giant white sticker to look at all day! If they remedied this, I'd give the chairs 4 stars, still subtracting for the poor finish.
Stickers from hell
I had the chairs from a few years ago by a different company. One reason I give them a 3 is that the finish is rough. My original chairs are smooth to the touch, and they were similar in price (actually much cheaper, but they were purchased a few years ago) The other bigger reason is that amongst other stickers on the underside of the seat, they have a huge full length-of-the-wood-strip white sticky thick label on the back of the seat that shows on the surface of the seat because it wraps around the wood on each side. It is taking hours to try to get them off. What a mess!! And I am great at adhesives: from "goo gone," to mayonnaise, to paint scrapers, to Teflon scrapers, to fingernails. Even if the label didn't show on the seating area, I stack the folded chairs in the kitchen where the undersides show. Who wants ugly giant white sticker to look at all day! If they remedied this, I'd give the chairs 4 stars, still subtracting for the poor finish.