[SML] Folding chair rental questions--

[Richard Niederberg]

I've been lucky enough to borrow 1000 chairs from a local SoCal cemetery
known for it's celebrity funerals and other events. [Not the same cemetery
that shows films on an adjacent soundstage exterior wall]
/s/ Richard
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Stephen Litterst via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> We have a stock of nice folding chairs for campus events, but we have to
> rent for commencement.  In addition to the large ceremony in the stadium,
> we have secondary ceremonies for colleges and departments in large tents on
> our campus green.
>
> We do use the regular plastic chair in the stadium and under the tents.
> While I'm only involved in the tent ceremonies, I haven't heard of any
> issues with collapses.
>
> Steve L.
>
> On 2/16/17 10:52 AM, Ben Hain via Stagecraft wrote:
>
>> Hi—
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>> On my campus, we’re in planning meetings for spring commencement and one
>> of the issues is finding good quality folding chairs in volumes of about
>> 1200 chairs.
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>> The local rental place has the regular, cheap, metal tubing, plastic
>> seat folding chair. And last year one collapsed under a guest. So we’re
>> trying to be extra cautious this year.
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>> Anything nicer than the cheap folding chair becomes expensive when
>> looking at 1200 of them.
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>> I’m curious what other venues do in this situation?
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>> Do you own your own chairs?
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>> Where do you rent from?
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>> Do you budget for the cost of the nicer chairs or go with the cheap ones?
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>> Being in Rochester MN, we don’t have many local options; shipping may be
>> involved as well.
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>> Thanks for offering opinions—
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>> Benjamin Hain
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> litterst at udel.edu           Mitchell Hall
> 302/831-0601                University of Delaware
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/s/ Richard
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