We've all seen those sweaty cracked faux leather chairs around shopping centres, and I've never been tempted to try one. However, I am curious as to the experience of one of those fancy ones (the fancy ones can massage shoulders, arms, legs, feet).
I did some googling and reputable brands can start from $4k and can go up to $18k. I've had people anecdotally confirm that it is an amazing experience, but no one seem to own one.
On the flip side, here are some red flags: a.) despite being extremely expensive there seems to be an endless amount of different brands that sell them b.) their business model reminds me of a car dealership c.) there are barely any info or reviews for these products (you'd think it being a good product and being extremely expensive buy there would be plenty of content and topics on it
Does anyone have any experience with owning or using one frequently? Quick maths tells me, at $5k (adding extended warranty for 5yrs): that's $2.7 per day if you use it once a day for the duration of the warranty. So if you're sharing it with your partner that's even cheaper.
P.S. I might look into going into one of those fancy stores in the Westfield that has like a Steve-Job lookalike guy on their poster and try it. From my research: the chair has a main set of rollers that goes up and down your back (with side to side and top-tier models has strength variation in the rollers). All other 'massage' spots such as calfs, arms and shoulder are from pressured airbags (kinda like those blood pressure measury things that squeeze you). This means even if you drop $18k, you're only getting 'massaged' for your back down to your thigh, the rest are 'kinda but not really massages' since it's just expansion and contraction of airbags.
Here is a starting point, https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/712301