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Where can I get a leather sofa quickly?

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whiskywhisky
whiskywhisky Posts: 319 Forumite
in In my home (includes DIY) MoneySaving
Hi All

I need to purchase a leather 3 and 2 seater fairly soon, ideally within the next 2 weeks. I have been to DFS, Hareys and LandOF Leather and all the ones I like have the usuall 12 weeks ++ waiting time. There are some which can be taken away, but they are damaged or weird colours.

I do not want an old one for a temporary basis (i.e freecycle or second hand).

Anyone any ideas what I can do? I was thinking of buying from Argos, but just cannot buy something like a sofa without seeing or sitting on it. I live in the South East if that helps.


Many Thanks
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  • McAzrael
    McAzrael Posts: 917 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    John Lewis deliver some of their sofas (including some leather ones) in 7 days. I went to the shop to check them out and then when I was ready to buy I ordered online (Quidco) on Sunday night. They rang me Monday morning wanting to deliver it that Friday.
  • ~Chameleon~
    ~Chameleon~ Posts: 11,956 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Any reason why you can't wait? It's quite usual to expect to wait 6-12 wks for sofa deliveries.

    I recently had one delivered from DFS within 4 weeks even though they stated 12 weeks when I ordered. Was a Linda Barker corner group and it's very nice indeed.
    “You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”
  • littleredhen
    littleredhen Posts: 3,302 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Ikea?? - 21% off on Saturday
    The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.:o

    A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk:)
  • scorpiolady
    scorpiolady Posts: 496 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Photogenic
    I bought mine from argos its very comfortable and i received it in 1 week :j
  • whiskywhisky
    whiskywhisky Posts: 319 Forumite
    Yep I am thinking off Ikea - even though I will probably have to get there for 6 am (45 mins drive) and be back for work.

    With Argos - if only I could view it or sit it on before I would be happy. The existing sofa belonged to family who will be taking it away as soon as we get ours. Out of courtesy I need to get one quickly - with the likes of DFS saying 12 weeks and it being 4 weeks. Well I dont particular want to take that risk, as it will mess us and my family up a bit.

    Anyone know what IKEA delivery times are like?
  • ormus
    ormus Posts: 42,714 Forumite
    ikea stores have a independant delivery driver based outside the store.
    he will deliver the same day.
    you pay the driver.
    Get some gorm.
  • turk3y
    turk3y Posts: 99 Forumite
    have you thought about freecycle? its a yahoo group thats spilt regionally, where people offer stuff thats too good to throw away (i thier eyes) for free to a good home. You might find a sofa you can collect that week, thow a throw over it and then look for a sofa you really want, once you have a date that the new one arrives put the other sofa back on freecycle for another to make use of?

    Also near us there are a few show home clearance centers ( i think thats what they are) and they have all sorts of furniture for sale that you can just take away. Some of its quite nice, you never know whats hiding in your local industrial esate.

    we had an office shutting down, so I had some waiting room sofa chair bench type thing till we got ours delivered, not the best but they worked fine and now we have the sofa we really wanted, not one that came "quick".
  • wearside_2
    wearside_2 Posts: 1,508 Forumite
    Cashback Cashier
    Certainly not DFS! Mine has now been on order for 12 weeks today. I guess they had difficulty catching the cow for the leather:D
    To Dare is To Do:beer:
  • suzybaby2001
    suzybaby2001 Posts: 93 Forumite
    We got our sofa from Ikea last weekend, we moved house the weekend before and were thoroughly sick of sitting on camping chairs!

    I rang them to check that delivery would be guaranteed, and they told me if we bought the sofa before 12 then it would be same day delivery - this turned out to be untrue when we got there!

    We had it delivered the next day. They told us the company would ring between 7 and 10am with a delivery slot, and deliveries started from 7am. They rang at 9 and said they'd be there between 2 and 6pm. They came at 5 and all was well :)

    The price for delivery was quite reasonable too, we live in Maidstone and bought the sofa from the Lakeside store and it was £55.
    One day I will be out of my student debt, one day... :beer:
  • sooz
    sooz Posts: 4,560 Forumite
    I've got these in brown, & they delivered within a week. (Arms came off too, to get them up the stairs)
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