chairs

The chair I've been using for the past ~10 years is getting quite bad. I've had it in its lowest position for years, and when I tried to raise it yesterday, it turned out that the surface you sit on is real loose. Also, I couldn't get it back down after raising it. And there're holes in the fabric too.
Anyway, I managed to get it back down after a while, but not without some bits and pieces of plastic coming off. But at least I can sit in it for now, without falling off.

So today I borrowed Steffi's Multivan and visited Staples to buy a new chair. I quickly found one for around 100€ which I bought and took home.
Then I drove to work.

And now I'm home, I've just unpacked the package, and found that the plastic tube that surrounds the cylinder that raises and lowers the seat, is broken.
Yay.
Gotta return that on Monday, and I can't assemble the chair until then. And of course I won't be able to return the whole package, since I won't have a car. So I really hope the people working there are flexible and let me switch just the broken part.

To make matters worse, I'm not quite sure how to best get rid of the old chair. There's two options I guess: Delivering it to one of the recycling places in Lübeck (Recyclinghöfe), but according to the internet you have to pay to deliver chairs and other furniture to those places. To get rid of it for free, you have to request a pickup from the garbage service. You can do that twice per year for free. But the disadvantage here is, that they take up to two weeks. Not to pick it up, but to give you a date for when they're going to pick it up. So that's 14 days + x that I'd have to keep the chair somewhere. I don't really have enough room for a superfluous chair in my apartment or in my cellar room. I guess I could put it on the balcony, but I'm not exactly happy having that thing on the balcony either.

To be honest, I'm considering disassembling it and just throwing it in the regular trash ...

[edit] Maybe I could give it to chairity ...