LEM Walnut Wood Piston Style Bar Stool

About ten years ago we ordered a bar stool from mybarstools.com to put in front of the kitchen window in our DC condo.  It swiveled and was height adjustable and it served the purpose. We just moved from DC to Virginia and now have a kitchen peninsula that needs at least two counter stools. So I searched to see if we could find one like the item we already had. They were discontinued on the original site. But when I searched for the specific item I found one like it at Home Depot of all places. So we ordered one and it was shipped from California. It arrived yesterday. We eagerly unboxed it and put it together. The problem was it didn’t work. We couldn’t get the piston function to go up or down. To make matters worse, the other stool could no longer be raised or lowered. So now we had two pieces of junk. Luckily we had kept the box it came in intact. So we decided to return it to the nearest Home Depot for a refund. This morning my husband couldn’t get it out of the house fast enough. Home Depot is not the place to go on a Saturday, but in spite of that we were in and out in no time and with no hassle. I’m not sure what kind of stools we will end up with now. I do know they won’t look anything like this.