Big Bertha Original

Reviews:

Did not realize you had to fill your own bag with the beads supplied! What a mess with beads all over house. Should have been filled at warehouse not in customer's home.

The beans don't stay in any of the right places so it ends up like a blob which my daughter struggles to get into.

Ordered a footstool and was quite surprised when it didn't arrive already assembled. If I had read the reviews fully beforehand I would have seen there was a common theme of people missing this info at the very bottom of the Features section, and also that there wasn't enough filling provided. I didn't bother opening the packages within as I knew it would be a nightmare, so I can't comment on the quality. I also had to chase for the refund which took nearly 3 weeks to go back to my account.

It would be so much better if the beanbag came ready stuffed. Doing it at home is such a faff and so many of the styrofoam beans spill out and it’s messy. I would prefer to buy from somewhere where it’s ready-stuffed professionally, so wouldn’t buy from here again or recommend.

Easy to order, arrives on time would have been 5 stars if they could package the replacement beans in a bag that doesn’t result in a high portion of the beans ending up all over the floor. Very difficult to fill. Once it’s done a great product

Liked the material however far smaller than anticipated.....also more beans required

Polystyrene balls were loose outside packaging bag and in the box. Messy getting them in the item.

Part of order ripped. Not enough beans to fill it.

The beanbag, once assembled, is very comfortable. However, as other reviewers have experienced, it is not clear from the website that you are required to fill it yourself (and similar to another reviewer, I did not have a second person available to help which made the task pretty hard). The filling gets everywhere and is a nightmare to clear up. This is not helped by the fact the box it comes in has holes and some of the filling will inevitably come out the bottom no matter how careful you are. Again, similar to other reviewers, insufficient filling was provided - I bought 2x beanbags and 1x footstool/pouffe and ended up using the filling meant for the pouffe to fill one of the beanbags so that it was sufficiently full / sturdy. I don't see why they can't ship the beanbag ready-made so assume it's a cost-cutting measure at the company's end. If you're willing to spend an hour and a half bent over with a dustpan and brush chasing tiny filling balls round the floor then the final product is good (provided you overfill with stuffing meant for e.g. a pouffe which you then won't be able to use). Otherwise I would recommend finding an alternative supplier who will ship ready-made!

Smaller than expected by photos. Also having to fill the chair yourself with foam balls was a nightmare. Paid for item then contacted to say they didnt have the material we ordered.

Needs more filling

Nice quality, but I was disappointed I had to purchase an extra 6cu feet of filling (from a cheaper company) to get the bean bag looking anything like the pictures on the website. A sneaky trick to extract an extra £50 for additional filling. **UPDATE** There are approx 15 other reviews from people with the same issue...you how much is required, so just ship the correct amount in the first place!

I ordered a large footstool. The quality of the fabric was nice but if that was large I wouldn’t like to see small and I also didn’t appreciate it hasn’t been filled and you’ve to do it yourself.

Arrived ahead of time, but did not expect it to be a “stuff it yourself” exercise. This requires two people and no cats!!!!

There aren’t enough beans - the sofa looks really limp and not like the photograph

The bag is not large enough for my needs

Upon delivery, the box was left outside our 2nd floor flat. With a trail of polystyrene balls all the way through our block. The fact that this is self assembly is hidden in the features section of the product and I feel this should be highlighted more clearly on the page. The bag for our polystyrene balls was broken upon arrival and once we had put all the balls inside the beanbag, I don’t feel there is enough to fill it. So I don’t know how many had fallen out in transit, but I could count more than 100 on the trail up to our flat. I feel mislead when purchasing this. It’s a messy job and not clearly stated that it self assembly. I really hope our niece likes this and it’s worth the aggravation of putting together and apologising to our neighbours for the mess caused by its delivery. I would love to know how that bag of beans is supposed to fill the entire bean bag. It’s saggy. See pics.

The colour and fabric are nice. But the process of inserting the polystyrene filling is excruciating! I feel I've paid a sofa price to be sent a DIY product. It's incredibly messy, time consuming and tricky to get the filling in, even with two people. The website doesn't make it clear that you receive a poly packaged fabric outer and two massive bags of polystyrene balls. There's no clever filling mechanism or delivery system - just pour them in and hope for the best!

The sofa doesn't come filled so you have to do it yrself. Absolute nightmare. Spent 4 hrs trying to do just that and the filling went everywhere which took forever to clean up. When finally filled it could do with more filling but after all the issues with filling it I gave up. It would be an OK sofa for a child in a playroom but does not seat 2 adults unless you like sitting with Yr knees up by Yr ears!!