Oakland Furniture Finance

LULULU1

They seem to go from one sale to another.

The latest one finishes today.

Just wondered with the fizz of Boxing and New Year sales if anybody thought where they might go next in terms of finance.

They are currently doing 9.9% over 4 years or 0% for 3 years if you spent over £3000.

9.9% looks a bit step. Just wondered if any employees lurking who might have any thoughts.

Happy new Year.......

FreeBear

Worth having a read of - https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2016/10/JB-Global-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_339625.aspx

Despite Oakland's claim that their furniture is made from "solid wood", you will find much of it is actually made from small pieces glued together. It owes it's strength to the adhesives used during manufacture rather than solid lumps of timber.

leveller2911

FreeBear wrote: »

Worth having a read of - https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2016/10/JB-Global-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_339625.aspx

Despite Oakland's claim that their furniture is made from "solid wood", you will find much of it is actually made from small pieces glued together. It owes it's strength to the adhesives used during manufacture rather than solid lumps of timber.

Those of us in the timber trade have known for years about these types of companies claims.

From the ASA's conclusion: "We understood that Oak Furniture Land used an “oak wrap” technique to construct their furniture legs, whereby the legs were formed by gluing numerous small segments of hardwood together, with a thin outer layer of hardwood wrapped around them.

I doubt that some of those components are constructed entirely from Oak and thats why they say "constructed from hardwood" on their "Oak Legs".

Its construction is poor grades of timber encased in a veneer..Its pretty clear how they make much of their products and the only reason they glue up small sections of timber is not down to stability in the case of table legs etc its down to the fact that the quality of the timber is so bad they have to veneer it to make it look any sense.

To sum up ,in my opinion its cheaply made tat that may if your lucky last a few years............ If people accept that then no reason not to buy it.

Thanks for the link Free Bear, very interesting read.

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9.9% From a retailer isn't bad, many still charge 29%, you can of course always get yourself a 0% cc.
As for sales the word has little or no meaning any more.

FreeBear

leveller2911 wrote: »

I doubt that some of those components are constructed entirely from Oak and thats why they say "constructed from hardwood" on their "Oak Legs".

For those that don't know, a hardwood is basically timber from a deciduous tree - This could be anything from oak, silver birch, poplar, willow, or even balsa.

So if anyone claims their furniture is made from "hardwood", the first question must be "from what tree ?"

seatbeltnoob

sales sign = "lets make more sales today" sign.

forgotmyname

I remember the sales on TV as a kid, people sleeping ouside stores in the City in usually freezing cold conditions waiting to buy an armchair for £69 or was it £99 instead of £300.

Then other stores opening their doors to a stampede. With half the shops having a weekly sale these days the true meaning of sale has long gone.

Just look at Black Friday, which has turned into Black Friday, or weekend or week or evenb fortnight. Utterly ridiculous, I keep well away from them.

leveller2911

FreeBear wrote: »

For those that don't know, a hardwood is basically timber from a deciduous tree - This could be anything from oak, silver birch, poplar, willow, or even balsa.

So if anyone claims their furniture is made from "hardwood", the first question must be "from what tree ?"

I've seen shops selling Tables constructed from "Solid Oak" but when you turn them upside down you find that the legs are constructed from 4 pieces of 4x1 Oak mitred at the 4 corners with a piece of Tulipwood/Poplar running through the middle of the leg.

Its makes for a very stable leg but its not solid Oak. Now if they had put Oak as the core timber they can claim its solid Oak but should still admit its "engineered" solid Oak.

A retired friend of mine buys old Oak tables at auctions and cleans them up and paints them to sell in his shop and a few times he has sanded through the Oak table tops thinking they were solid Oak only to find they are Oak veneered Ply.Even tables that date back to the 1930's may well have ply tops.

ratrace

forgotmyname wrote: »

I remember the sales on TV as a kid, people sleeping ouside stores in the City in usually freezing cold conditions waiting to buy an armchair for £69 or was it £99 instead of £300.

Then other stores opening their doors to a stampede. With half the shops having a weekly sale these days the true meaning of sale has long gone.

Just look at Black Friday, which has turned into Black Friday, or weekend or week or evenb fortnight. Utterly ridiculous, I keep well away from them.

True, also selling people crap they dont need
this is how people end up in a silly amount of debt, the goods are overpriced in the first place so there is no real sale if we want a bargain second hand is the way to go especially for cars

keith969

My brother used to work for them. When I asked him why he did not have any of their furniture, he had just two words: "It's rubbish".

ic

I'm looking for sofas at the moment. I always see the comments about the main high street stores being rubbish (DFS, ScS, Harveys, Furniture Village, Sofology, Oakland, etc). So where do people go? In searching I've found local firms selling the same furniture under different names - so they're all buying from the same suppliers.

Are the likes of Next, M&S and John Lewis just as bad?