Buy a Sofa Online? Wayfair Is Counting on It
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Buy a Sofa Online? Wayfair Is Counting on It
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#2I bought a sofa online and it is, frustratingly, one inch too short.
I find the Campaign Living concept: https://www.campaignliving.com/products/the-sofa?variant=416... to be an interesting one, however.
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#3I bought a sofa online and it is, frustratingly, one inch too short. I find the Campaign Living concept: https://www.campaignliving.com/products/the-sofa?variant=416... to be an interesting one, however.
Too short for what?
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#4Just got one from Joybird. The swatch samples are a big plus. It definitely creates some anxiety not knowing how things will actually play out though.
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#5I have mixed feelings about Wayfair. My hunch is that Amazon is eyeing the market and will aggressively target it once it becomes a focus. That would be interesting to see: Amazon's supply chain management is perhaps one of the best (maybe Walmart is about the same) and I don't think Wayfair would be able to compete.
Now, my personal experience with Wayfair has been mixed. They don't manufacture anything themselves, so its usually a hit or miss. I LOVE the bedframe I bought from them, which turned out to be actually manufactured by a Korean company called Zinus. However, a nice headboard that I purchased was of poor quality (it looks nice at first, but the wood is soft... dents easily. The workmanship is not very good, and this is clear even to an untrained eye like mine).
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#6I bought a couple of rugs from wayfair, mainly because it was a convenient way to buy rugs, as in: I didn't really want to go shopping for a long time to find a rug that met my needs (dimension, colors, price).
I'm currently in the market for a sofa, but this is more of a hobby than anything else - my wife and I don't have the same taste in sofa design, it turns out, so the overlap between what each like is small to start with. Factor in the need to be a nap-comfortable sofa and there's a lot of limitations there. A good sofa should last 20+ years, so I'm willing to take the time to find the right one.
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#7I bought a bed from Wayfair. It was inexpensive and is fine. Except FedEx made me help carry it up to my apartment, because it was too heavy for the driver. I'm a large healthy male, but I can't imagine my mother doing that.
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#8I bought a sofa online and it is, frustratingly, one inch too short. I find the Campaign Living concept: https://www.campaignliving.com/products/the-sofa?variant=416... to be an interesting one, however.
Too short for what?
For the size mattress it was designed for, I assume.
EDIT: I'm a fool, and sofas aren't beds.
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#9The article compares how difficult is it to ship sofas with shipping mattresses. However you can order online rolled and compressed mattresses for ~60€ that are the size of a thick pillow. Once the plastic wrap is removed it will unroll. Then wait 24h and it will grow to its full size.
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#10I bought a sofa online and it is, frustratingly, one inch too short. I find the Campaign Living concept: https://www.campaignliving.com/products/the-sofa?variant=416... to be an interesting one, however.
I like that movability is a feature (at least for the chair, sofa didn't mention that?) But it does seem very very expensive.