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Arrgh, I can't stand the look or idea of this thing. It just seems so stupid! Yeah, you're not carrying a lot, but it is also not a chair! It looks more like a candy-colored weapon for a play fight. I don't get it.

I believe you sit in the sand or on a towel and use this as the back for your "chair". I think it's pretty cool.

that thing would fall or sink so fast with me leaning back on it... it's a good idea, but not really for the chunky monkeys.

I think it's an amazing idea! I love to read at the beach and it's always a struggle to get comfortable. Want!

I think it would all depend on the density of the sand you're sitting in. Wet sand would hold, for sure. Loose, dry sand might present a problem.

I like it, but I hate carting a lot of stuff to the beach.

Yuck! I don't want to be sitting on sand. A regular beach chair isn't that heavy.

Cool!

i agree with the negative--why is is so hard to carry a folding beach chair? it seems to me that if you want to sit up you would be much more comfortable off the sand and in a seated position that you know won't be collapsing on you.

But isn't the point of bringing chairs *not* to sit on the sand? This kind of defeats that purpose, which sucks, because it's really the only purpose.

If you have kids and beach toys and boogie boards and coolers and your car is parked 1/2 a mile away or more, as it is on Cape Cod, less if definitely more. A towel and a shallow hole in the ground is much better for your back than a beach chair. I LOVE these!

this looks like another waste of materials to me. and sand is too loose... you'd have to have REALLY long spokes to dig in deep enough to support the weight of an adult leaning back against this. plus, leaning back against molded plastic all day doesn't sound very comfy... i grew up in RI, went to school in seacoast NH, and now live in eastern MA... i'm no stranger to the perils of carrying your beach stuff long distances, but this is just silly.

To Matthew's comment about carrying a folded beach chair not being hard: I often take public transportation and have to walk quite a distance from the train to even get to the beach (there's one beach I really like that is 4-5 miles from the train station), and then I usually walk one to three miles down the beach (depending on how crowded it is) before settling down in a spot. So I don't feel like lugging even a folded beach chair all that distance. Normally I pile up some sand to make a backrest and lay my towel on top of it. I like this chair idea, but would like it even more if it folded in half for carrying (in a bag, for instance) and locked open when you wanted to use it.

Wouldn't it make more sense to buy something like the Crazy Creek chair (http://www.crazycreek.com/interior.cfm?page=products&Category=1) that is more portable and can be used for sitting on dirt, stadium benches, grass, etc.? Why buy and store something that can only be used on sand, and only on rather wet sand at that?