Buy a Sofa Online? Wayfair Is Counting on It

Post by SmellTheGlove » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 2:10 AM UTC

flashman wrote: post #73

bluedino wrote: post #20

If you're looking for a $249 couch, it's the way to go. Around here, at least the low-end furniture stores like Art Van stock a ton of low-end Chinese-built furniture. Everything is particleboard and laminate, it scratches and peels and is basically junk, but they want to charge full price for it. At least when you buy a cheap table from Amazon it's priced accordingly. I can see their industry turning upside very qui…

> If you're looking for a $249 couch And let's not forget, a lot of people are, for many different reasons. Maybe they're not expecting to stay in the house forever, maybe it's a group of housemates who are buying 'disposable' furniture to avoid dealing with ownership issues, maybe they're low-income. I really think a lot of this has to do with people's lives and careers being less predictable than they were a few de…

Post by kevin_thibedeau » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 3:16 AM UTC

e1ven wrote: post #67

everybodyknows wrote: post #59

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Interestingly specialized vendor. Made to order, in USA. Upholstered furniture only. Frame looks to be oriented strandboard: https://homereserve.com/features

I've been using one of their products for a few months now. It was easy enough to assemble, and is reasonably comfortable for the price. It's nice to be able to cheaply and easily design the layout which works for my house. I'm pretty rough on things, and one of the strand board back pieces has broken twice. They've mailed me replacements pretty quickly, but I do wish it were a stronger material.

Post by bonniemuffin » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 4:45 AM UTC

Sangermaine wrote: post #13

pfooti wrote: post #6

I 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…

What was your experience buying rugs from them? I'm in the same boat as you in terms of wanting a rug but not wanting to spend time physically going around.

Post by Jdam » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 7:44 AM UTC

Matthias247 wrote: post #58

lobster_johnson wrote: post #54

Wayfair (and their various demographically-targeted brands, which include Joss and Main, All Modern, Birch Lane and Dwell Studio) is such a horrible mix of crap and quality. I believe they really have to overcome this to become successful. One confusing and annoying problem with retailers like Wayfair, and the many other outlets (Overstock, Barcelona Designs and many others), is that most of their inventory is white-…

Isn’t that model the same in normal furniture shops? When I visited the bigger ones (XXXL Lutz chain in Germany) they always had lots of furniture under their in-house brands, which I guess is relabeled other stuff. More funky then the names is the pricing, because it’s always reduced. You will never see anything for full price, it will always be labeled with something like 30-50% off. Which however just reflects rea…

Post by buckhx » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:26 PM UTC

WillPostForFood wrote: post #40

buckhx wrote: post #4

Just 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.

How do you like it? Their products look great online, but have never seen one in person.