If i want 2 cushions......$9k  

One option is a specialist...
One option is a specialist car trimmer. It won't be original but a damn sight less then 9k!

Where
are you located?

after 20 years of wanting...
after 20 years of wanting one of these I finally found one in America and it's due to arrive in a week, I'm in Sydney Australia.
I have a good upholster but I would prefer the real deal.
I rang adelta and they don't sell them seperate hence the $9k.
So any help would be appreciated finding the real ones. It's not the sort of things that one would have lying around in their garage though..LOL
Which brings me to my second point.
Why is it that in the USA these chairs average around $1000 and yet everywhere else they're $10000 plus?
And yes it is real, I bought it from Wrights auctions. It can't be there recession as I've been watching these seriously for the last 5 years.
Here in Australia the old ones sell for around $15k retail, if you can find one
Anyone know?

Prices at rock bottom
Looking at the results of the Wright auction it seems clear
US demand for modern is at rock bottom(for most common items). The sellers of
some of these items must me in shock after seeing what
they finally got for thier consignments. Or it all could
be Obama's fault since he is from Chicago !?

....LOL
I agree, it's...
....LOL
I agree, it's certainly a buyers market in the good ol' US of A.
Rago auctions is the same
It's a different story here though
Prices are crazy here
There is quality here but you have to be a bloodhound to find it
Certainly ball chairs are thin on the ground
So if anyone has one send it down here, after $1600 to get here it wouldn't be a bad profit

When you same 'more common...
When you same 'more common items' are ball chairs that common in America?
If I put mine on eBay here people what shit themselves by not knowing what it is, given that there are so many bad Chinese copies here

what are you talking about ????
you can get a whole new chair for $6k ................
but you say two cushions are going to cost you $9k ???
step away from the crack pipe...... slowly with your hands where i can see them.

yeh maybe from where you are...
yeh maybe from where you are but here in Sydney they are $9k plus
They won't supply cushions only the complete chair
Anyway i wanted a 60's model cause yes i'm anal!

Cushions http://www.unicahome.com/catalog/item.asp?id=25417&PartnerID=FR
Half price.

Not exactly half.
Unfortunately, that half-price deal isn't so great in this case.
Unicahome's price is $4424 US dollars. Ball is in Australia, though, so that's $5300 in his dollars. Then there's shipping from the US to Australia -- I'd guess at least $AU600 for something that size/weight/value. Import duty is 5%: $265. Then he'll pay 10% tax on the cost of the chair PLUS the cost of shipping PLUS the duty, so that's another $615 or so... For a total cost of $6780. Then he'll have to pay someone to install the cushions.
It'll still be cheaper than the $AU9000 that Adelta wants for a complete chair ... But not by much. In fact, if $4500 cushions from the USA are his only choice, it'd cost less to sell the cushionless chair he has and buy a brand-new one.

been there done that!
i...
been there done that!
i looked at unciahome many years ago and thought the same as 'fastfwd's' reply
i may have to wait for Rago or Wright auctions to auction off another of their incredibly cheap ball chairs with cushions included
4 in the past 3 years have sold for around the $1000 US figure and i bought 2 of them. Stupidly i sold the first one i bought after auction and pre-shipment to a 'walk in' in America