2 leather Marcello sofas for £499. Any good?

FluffyFiFi

I've had a couple of leather sofa's from Argos for about 10 months and we are really pleased with them. With a dog, two cats and two children we wanted something hardwearing which they certainly are. Although the cushions are fixed we have not had a problem with the filling moving, the arm rests are still plump and the back cushions are as they were when we first bought them.

sianywarny

:j I must agree with one of the previous comments about trying Leather Sofa World..I have used them a few times now and they are fantastic - you can get the same sofas that Argos sell but for cheaper!!!

They also deliver in 7 days and you dont have to wait in all day as they call you on your mobile when they are an hour away. Absolouelty fab! Have had sofas from DFS and Land of Leather before but they just dont compare in price and service. Have also had a lot of reclaimed pine furniture from there cus it is just gorgeous!!!

Honestly it really is worth checking out their website before you decide to buy from anywhere else!!!! www.leathersofaworld.com

:T

sianywarny

:A www.leathersofaworld.com

mattersdorff

does anyone else find it a little suspicious that the two people that made positive comments/recommended Leathersofaworld.com in this post both seem to have registered to use MSE forums purely to recommend this company in this post.

I obviously can't prove anything but I just hate companies that register as everyday 'normal' people and make sneaky recommendations about their own company.

The first post from Nathbargainhunter was posted in August 2007, SEVEN months after the previous post so if he's the happy owner of a customer from leathersofaworld, why is he doing a 'sofa' search in the MSE forums???

Doing a search would surely have been the only way he would have found that post. Why is he searching for 'sofa's when he apparently already owns a great one and knows the exact company to buy from?

There was also a gap of a month before Sianywarny registered purely to comment on how good this company is and 'agree with one of the previous comments'.

I thought I might take my investigation further so did a search for leathersofaworld in the MSE forums and guess what I found:

Another 'newbie' registered under the name Amycaff to hail the services and quality of leathersofaworld.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=539818&page=3&highlight=leathersofaworld

And in another post, yet another 'newbie' registered under Ste1987 purely to make an arbitrary comment about the delivery times of leathersofaworld.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=865445&highlight=leathersofaworld

ALL of these comments came almost a full month, sometimes more, after the previous posts so yet again, there's no way they simply stumbled across the posts and decided to make a comment... they've had to search for sofa before doing so.

Wanting to be completely fair to leathersofaworld, there was a total of 2 people who have been long-term members of the MSE forums that made positive comments about the company.

Let this be a warning to people out there, at the very least check how long a person has been registered on MSE before believing everything they say, check out what else they've commented on and at the very least, take 'recommendations' from newbies with a healthy pinch of salt.

and I'm not bringing into question just leathersofaworld but many many more companies that try similar deplorable, underhand tricks to attract business.

p.s. let me say that leathersoftheworld actually seems to be a decent company selling sofas at good prices... I'm in the hunt for a well-priced sofa myself which is how I stumbled across this post but this sort of seriously suspicious 'recommendation' does more to make me worry than reassure me about them.

Adebisi

mattersdorff wrote: »

does anyone else find it a little suspicious that the two people that made positive comments/recommended Leathersofaworld.com in this post both seem to have registered to use MSE forums purely to recommend this company in this post.

I obviously can't prove anything but I just hate companies that register as everyday 'normal' people and make sneaky recommendations about their own company.

The first post from Nathbargainhunter was posted in August 2007, SEVEN months after the previous post so if he's the happy owner of a customer from leathersofaworld, why is he doing a 'sofa' search in the MSE forums???

Doing a search would surely have been the only way he would have found that post. Why is he searching for 'sofa's when he apparently already owns a great one and knows the exact company to buy from?

There was also a gap of a month before Sianywarny registered purely to comment on how good this company is and 'agree with one of the previous comments'.

I thought I might take my investigation further so did a search for leathersofaworld in the MSE forums and guess what I found:

Another 'newbie' registered under the name Amycaff to hail the services and quality of leathersofaworld.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=539818&page=3&highlight=leathersofaworld

And in another post, yet another 'newbie' registered under Ste1987 purely to make an arbitrary comment about the delivery times of leathersofaworld.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=865445&highlight=leathersofaworld

ALL of these comments came almost a full month, sometimes more, after the previous posts so yet again, there's no way they simply stumbled across the posts and decided to make a comment... they've had to search for sofa before doing so.

Wanting to be completely fair to leathersofaworld, there was a total of 2 people who have been long-term members of the MSE forums that made positive comments about the company.

Let this be a warning to people out there, at the very least check how long a person has been registered on MSE before believing everything they say, check out what else they've commented on and at the very least, take 'recommendations' from newbies with a healthy pinch of salt.

and I'm not bringing into question just leathersofaworld but many many more companies that try similar deplorable, underhand tricks to attract business.

p.s. let me say that leathersoftheworld actually seems to be a decent company selling sofas at good prices... I'm in the hunt for a well-priced sofa myself which is how I stumbled across this post but this sort of seriously suspicious 'recommendation' does more to make me worry than reassure me about them.

Good investigation made me think twice about this company! cheers

geri1965_2

hotchokl8 wrote: »

just one thing to remember about ordering sofas, make sure you can get them in through your front door when the delivery guys arrive.

Tell me about it, I wasted £200 ona deposit for sofas earlier in the year that wouldn't get through my front door. They were the same size as my existing sofas but I didn't account for the fact that I changed my front door a few years after buying them to a uPVC one with a smaller frame. :rolleyes:

I can't get my old sofas out either.