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Buying Furniture

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  • Thanks all :) Looking for some good quality affordable NEW furniture though..any other suggestions
  • Grenage
    Grenage Posts: 3,222 Forumite
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    You're a bit !!!!!!ed there, as good quality furniture is expensive.

    Good, Cheap, New - pick any two!
  • no1catman
    no1catman Posts: 2,973 Forumite
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    Please, please, for your sanity do not try Harveys!
    Sales, will tell you anything to get the deal. Moreover, their Customer Service is abysmal, think they'll ring you back - no chance. You want head office address to write to, they are not allowed to give it out, yes I'll repeat that - Customer service are not allowed to give out details of their Head Office or the name of the CEO.
    Do not touch them with barge pole - you have been warned!

    Other furniture, I was impressed with the 'look' of the furniture in Oaklands furniture.
    I used to work for Tesco - now retired - speciality Clubcard
  • DigForVictory
    DigForVictory Posts: 12,229 Forumite
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    MrsBSaver wrote: »
    Looking for some good quality affordable NEW furniture

    Try a website that isn't about moneysaving, maybe?

    As with shockingly little effort you can restore or rehome a preloved but now too big or brown or white or whatever dining suite etc.

    Unless you need to furnish an isolation bubble (& that all gets torched afterwards anyway) review your prejudices about second hand stuff as many folk buy, realise it isn't quite what they thought & move it along rather than return it.

    As for quality - within reason the older, the better built - as the new stuff has a shorter expected lifespan, so you come back & consume more...

    Finally, all this is just before Christmas. Folk are 'buying new for Christmas' so the secondhand market is a buyers dream...
    Be really shrewd with every penny til the new year sales if you Must Buy New but get the second hand & it honestly doesn't matter if Great Aunt Enid spills her sherry/ Cousin Judy changes the new baby/ young Bill learns the hard way about vodka on it over the Festive season.
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