Comments on: Which Level of Dante’s Inferno is Furniture Salesmen?

By: kathy

kathy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:45:25 +0000

i’ve generally been allowed to test couches to my heart’s content without being stalked at crate and barrel. sure i might be asked if there’s anything they can help me with, but they let me just test surf the couches. and randomly play with other furniture. and i’ve never bought (where the heck would i put it?) but they don’t turn evil at that point or anything…

By: Tosy and Cosh

Tosy and Cosh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:28:06 +0000

A local recommendation – we’ve bought lots of stuff from Maella’s Furniture in Hawthorne. Family-run, with no salespeople, just the owner and his son, and very low-pressure. We saw a pine bedroom set we loved in a pricy gifty shop. We noted the manufacturer, and asked Maella’s if we could try and find it in the catalog. We did, and got it at half what the gift shop was charging.

By: Augie De Blieck Jr.

Augie De Blieck Jr. — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:55:16 +0000

Nope, you can add in the salesman at Ashely Furniture who we literally snuck out of the store on, because we were tired of her following us around surreptitiously. (Hope I spelled that right.) Raymour and Flanagan left us alone because I think they were either all so busy or disorganized. And the other store we went to — I forget their name — had a guy handling three people at once who we watched bounce between us all constantly.

We did this furniture shopping thing once a month ago and had very similar results. This weekend was just more obnoxious, for whatever reason.

I would very much like to reward a furniture store where their people didn’t work on commission and let us just look around by ourselves.

By: EzekielRawlins

EzekielRawlins — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:14:31 +0000

Ahh, Bob…by that snappy rebuttal, I’m gonna guess that you’re a salesman by occupation and that you’re new to V & S. Shopping greviances are nothing new around here.
And I know, I’m feeding the troll here, but…

“All salesmen in stores are paid mostl yin commision and are forced to hunt you down and try to get you to buy things and not let coworkers steal a sale. Literally.”

Man, if you really feel this way, let me be the first to suggest a career change.

By: Bob Taggart

Bob Taggart — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:33:58 +0000

“The Mrs. and I learned a valuable lesson this weekend: Don’t go furniture shopping unless you’re prepared to buy. And, most likely, don’t go unless you already know exactly what you’re looking for. We’re going to find what we like on-line before we head out to the awful brick and mortar torture chambers that furniture stores are.”

So you learned that from ONE SALESMAN AT MACY’S? Not that you generalize or jump to conclusions or anything. You had one bad experience. And how are they different from applience salesmen, shoe salesmen and so on? They aren’t All salesmen in stores are paid mostl yin commision and are forced to hunt you down and try to get you to buy things and not let coworkers steal a sale. Literally.

But no. It’s annoying and so let’s blame the salesguy.