These chairs ship fully assembled.  The factory produced full-machine quality, but we can't confirm quality since already assembled.  Since it is not economical to ship only a few chairs, we are requiring a minimum of 4.  These arrive freight.  Arm chairs normally ship at $39 each, but since we will ship freight and a minimum of 4 is required, some savings can be found per unit.  Therefore, each chair is $29 each for shipping x 4 minimum.  One time purchase.  Rare for us to get the peanut/banana back chairs.