27/11/11 HERALD SUN
Nov 27, 2011 11:30:08 GMT 10
Post by thebraff (Braffy) on Nov 27, 2011 11:30:08 GMT 10
DAMIEN LEITH'S HOME FURNISHING FURY
www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/damien-leiths-home-furnishing-fury/story-
Damien Leith's home furnishing fury
by: Rhiannon Sawyer
From: National Features
November 26, 2011 7:00PM
Damien Leith: Shopping for furniture infuriates me. Picture: Supplied. Supplied
BUYING furniture is the most frustrating thing, ever.
You’re doing up your house and have decided to buy something for a room, then you’re told it’s going to be 12 weeks before you receive it - it infuriates me.
Waiting for our new bed base is driving me up the wall.
Until it arrives, we’re sleeping on a mattress on the floor. We also bought a lovely new couch to replace our horrible one.
Initially, we were told it would take 10 weeks for delivery, then we received a call eight weeks later to say it was going to be another four weeks. It’s been a nightmare.
It might be a romantic notion, but when you buy something new - especially if it’s something big - you feel excited.
You’re pumped, you’re checking out every store, trying everything out. Then they tell you it’s going to take three months... talk about deflating.
When it finally arrives, the excitement has gone. You just go, “Oh well, there it is then. Just put it in the corner.”
When our couch arrived, my wife, Eileen, and I said to each other, “Is this the exact one we bought?” Honestly, we’d forgotten. If you’re going to wait that long, it’s worth taking a photo in the shop as a reminder.
The problem is, everything’s made-to-order from overseas these days.
If you’re lucky, they might have the item in stock, but that doesn’t happen often. The other option is to buy something flat-packed, then try to put it together yourself. But everybody knows how that turns out - if you’re not handy with tools, it falls to pieces.
Part of the deal with the couch was to have it ‘installed’.
But when it arrived in its massive box packed with lots of foam and bubble wrap, the delivery guy said, “We can’t open boxes because it’s a health and safety risk.” That was the final insult.
I’d love to punish the people who make us wait, but they have all the power.
We buy and they provide. It’s a vicious circle. A lot of this stuff comes on a ship and they take a long time. It’s good to buy Aussie, I reckon. That’s the moral of this story: buy local.
Next time, I’ll buy new furniture a few months in advance.
At least then, by the time it arrives, we’ll probably need it.
Leith hosts New Idea Test Kitchen, Sundays at 6.30pm on 7TWO.
www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/damien-leiths-home-furnishing-fury/story-
Damien Leith's home furnishing fury
by: Rhiannon Sawyer
From: National Features
November 26, 2011 7:00PM
Damien Leith: Shopping for furniture infuriates me. Picture: Supplied. Supplied
BUYING furniture is the most frustrating thing, ever.
You’re doing up your house and have decided to buy something for a room, then you’re told it’s going to be 12 weeks before you receive it - it infuriates me.
Waiting for our new bed base is driving me up the wall.
Until it arrives, we’re sleeping on a mattress on the floor. We also bought a lovely new couch to replace our horrible one.
Initially, we were told it would take 10 weeks for delivery, then we received a call eight weeks later to say it was going to be another four weeks. It’s been a nightmare.
It might be a romantic notion, but when you buy something new - especially if it’s something big - you feel excited.
You’re pumped, you’re checking out every store, trying everything out. Then they tell you it’s going to take three months... talk about deflating.
When it finally arrives, the excitement has gone. You just go, “Oh well, there it is then. Just put it in the corner.”
When our couch arrived, my wife, Eileen, and I said to each other, “Is this the exact one we bought?” Honestly, we’d forgotten. If you’re going to wait that long, it’s worth taking a photo in the shop as a reminder.
The problem is, everything’s made-to-order from overseas these days.
If you’re lucky, they might have the item in stock, but that doesn’t happen often. The other option is to buy something flat-packed, then try to put it together yourself. But everybody knows how that turns out - if you’re not handy with tools, it falls to pieces.
Part of the deal with the couch was to have it ‘installed’.
But when it arrived in its massive box packed with lots of foam and bubble wrap, the delivery guy said, “We can’t open boxes because it’s a health and safety risk.” That was the final insult.
I’d love to punish the people who make us wait, but they have all the power.
We buy and they provide. It’s a vicious circle. A lot of this stuff comes on a ship and they take a long time. It’s good to buy Aussie, I reckon. That’s the moral of this story: buy local.
Next time, I’ll buy new furniture a few months in advance.
At least then, by the time it arrives, we’ll probably need it.
Leith hosts New Idea Test Kitchen, Sundays at 6.30pm on 7TWO.
Agree, Tina. Breathe D, just breathe. 
It's simply because it's an extra, when deliveries are ourtsourced, so that's ALL they do, deliver. Not Good Enough, furniture people! 
