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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">Anything nicer than the cheap folding chair becomes expensive when looking at 1200 of them.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m curious what other venues do in this situation? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Do you own your own chairs? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where do you rent from? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Do you budget for the cost of the nicer chairs or go with the cheap ones?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Being in Rochester MN, we don’t have many local options; shipping may be involved as well.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for offering opinions—<o:p></o:p></p>
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