Sitting PrettyThe best portable beach chair.

Remarks from the Fray:

He missed one very important aspect of his "best chair ever" - quality of construction. I purchased this chair approximate two months ago and loved it - for about a month. Then, the poles that serve as the canopy broke at the joint where they connect with the poles that hold it up. (Is there a better way to say - where they connect to the ones pointing up?) First one snapped and almost immediately the other. I wasn't rough housing with it and hadn't opened and closed it more than half a dozen times. Now it's practically worthless and the extra money I spent to have this "cool" canopy could have been better spent on a beach umbrella that could have done the same thing. Buyer Beware!

--omeomi

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A $10 no name beats them all. Mrs. LG66, always on the bargain lookout, bought two chairs at Roche Brothers (a grocery store chain in the Boston area) for $10 each. They have all the desired features, are very comfortable for two adults. The reviewer would score them high. We'll take them to the Pops concert/fireworks (best in the nation) on the Esplenade tonight.

Now, I have no idea who made them or where, how much child or slave labor was exploited, or much an anything else. Maybe the fabric will give us skin cancer. But, we wouldn't know such things about the other chairs, either.

--libera_guy66

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