Herman Miller Launches New Aeron Chair
I bought two Aeron chairs, $10 each at separate times.<p>The first chair was being pushed down the street by a guy who looked borderline homeless.  He was about to go into the Bowling Green subway station.  I said &quot;Are you selling that chair&quot;, he said &quot;How much would you offer?&quot;.  I offered $10, he said &quot;great, I didn&#x27;t really want to carry this all the way home&quot;.  I had a pang of regret and thought I had possibly walked into some type of high design sting operation.  I asked &quot;Do you own this chair?&quot;, he replied &quot;My office was renovating and they were throwing it out.&quot;  Good enough for me.<p>The second chair came a couple of weeks later.  I was walking down Broadway by the bull, about 100 yards from the first place.  One of the street vendors was sitting on an Aeron.  I asked if he would sell me the chair, he said sure, $20.  As I was inspecting it, a woman walked by and said &quot;That&#x27;s a nice chair, it&#x27;s not a real Aeron like they have at my office, but it&#x27;s a nice chair&quot;.  The hydraulic cylinder was broken on this one, the chair only sat at the lowest position, when you would pick it up, the cylinder extended.  I offered him $10 and he accepted.  It was a genuine Aeron. I ordered a new cylinder for this chair and it is like new, the cylinder was around $90.<p>Both of these sales happened within my first 3 months of moving downtown.  I have never seen another Aeron chair for sale on that street or any other.  I looked.