Hbada Gaming Chair Review - $150 on Amazon
235The Hbada Gaming Chair on Amazon looks like a solid deal at first glance. $150 for a good quality gaming chair with a decent review average seems too good to be true, so I decided to to a Hbada gaming chair review video to clarify whether or not it is.
Spoiler alert: it is in fact too good to be true. I don't necessarily think that the Hbada gaming chair is AWFUL or inadequate for the price, but to go into this thinking it is going to be as comfortable and high quality as the Amazon product page makes it out to be is going to result in a happy slap in the face.
Starting out with this Hbada gaming chair review, I will cover the good things and features that met or exceeded my expectation since really this section is going to be the short one. Out of the box, I thought that the base seemed really solidly built and looked like something off of a legitimately high quality chair. The edges are a little pointy and hurt my feeties when I rest them on it the wrong way, but that isn't really what the base is designed for so I didn't make a big deal out of it. The other thing I really like about this chair is the reclining - I know that a lot of chairs are capable of this, but it seemed like many of them didn't go quite as far back and I can guarantee that some of them are probably super sketchy when doing so. Surprisingly, the Hbada gaming chair lays back and even engages tilt without being scary. I sometimes even pull my feet up onto the desk or the chair while doing so and only get a slight moment of thinking it might flip me. It never does though.
That'll do for the stuff I like during my Hbada gaming chair review - let's move on to the real nitty gritty here. My biggest gripe with this chair is the discomfort, which I think is fair considering it is a piece of long-term use furniture. The discomfort of the Hbada gaming chair mostly stem from a lack of quality foam/cushioning and a poorly routed metal frame. If you sit any way but perfectly in the middle, you're going to be finding a hunk of metal tubing grinding into your back from one bolsters which have virtually no padding at all. Even while sitting normally though, the seat cushion quickly compresses to nothing and leaves your cheeks grinding on a piece of plywood (probably.)
Right out of the box, the Hbada gaming chair smelled awful. I had to give it a complete wipe down with a soapy cloth and managed to mostly get rid of the smell, but when you compress the pillows it still puffs out the stench of an overworked, underpaid, unethical factory in China. I forgot to mention this in the review, because the smell has mostly gone away in the two weeks I've had it. I will pin a comment about it though so people know.
Moving onward with the Amazon bargain bin Hbada gaming chair review, we can talk about another one of my biggest issues with this product: the arm rests. The have only up and down adjustability on the fly and maybe an inch worth of in and out, but you have to get a hex key and loosen for socket cap screws before you can adjust them and re-tighten them after. They also lack any worthwhile padding, which I know is semi-typical for these types of chairs but it is still a negative. It gets worse for our friend the Hbada gaming chair - the left arm rest is about to exit the building. Over a few days the rest had really started to loosen up and wobble and they weren't very stable to start with. This thing WILL fall off within a couple months tops if you don't tiptoe around it. That is unacceptable.
I can start running through the remainder of the negatives a bit more quickly here as we wrap up our Hbada gaming chair review. The PU leather, which I know is just imitation leather, is bottom of the barrel stuff and is pretty poorly fitted over the chair. I can't see it lasting much more than a year or so before breaking down. The lumbar pillow, while not terrible is kind of annoying to take on and off if you decide it just isn't right for you at a certain moment, which usually leads to me just leaving it off entirely. This chair has turned into a squeak machine within the first week which is ridiculous considering how long my previous chair went without making hardly any racket. The head pillow falls way too low to be used for my head unless I relocate it to the head rest, which involves quite the stretch for the band. The plastic inserts on the holes in the back of the chair are also an awful idea, they are uncomfortable if you head is against them and serve no real purpose.
I could go on with this Hbada gaming chair review for a while, but at the end of the day the reality is that there are much better chairs out there on Amazon and other places. You will have to pay a bit more if you want something quality, but if you can accept having a chair that is honestly just low quality and uncomfortable on a budget then the Hbada gaming chair might actually be an alright bet... even still, I think if you can avoid it then you should.