Activate your knockout plan today,
or let your bill double up automatically.
Life is NOT automatically activated for you.
YOU have to make it happen. YOU do it. Or get knocked out.
I accept responsibility.
I am going to knock this out!
I understand I am personally responsible to make all the payments happen inside the schedule provided.
If I chose to go past the same-as-cash timeframe, its no one’s fault but mine.
I understand the math.
I see the reward of paying on time or early.
I also see the consequences of paying late.
I will make the call to activate life on my terms.
Signed: ___________________________ (by me)
We delight in providing professional assembly service!
• We glue and screw. The assurance of professional assembly includes industrial glue + fasteners to go above and beyond the manufacture specifications for strength.
• Level. The chairs and table will not rock. We add leveling devices at the bottom of the legs to make sure there’s no wiggle.
• Save time. Let the pros do it.
• Less stress. You do enough already. Don’t overwhelm your spouse. • Peace of mind. Just get it done right once.
• Avoid defects. Professionals recognize and resolve potential manufacturer defects.
• Clarity. Sometimes the instructions are unclear. Reduce complexity. Bunkbed instructions have many steps and some bunks take longer than a couple hours to build correctly.
Assembly charges are based on several factors.
Couches and Sectionals are assembled at no charge. Mirrors are anchored onto dressers for no added assembly cost.
Do not completely empty your bank: because you will not be approved for financing. :)
Try trusting the banks just enough to keep at least $10 in there, please. For your own good. :)
Going to zero is a fear-based mentality.
Develop some confidence to keep cash flowing smoothly.
“Just please try leaving a little cushion in there."
Aiming for zero is like letting your gas tank 🏎️ ⛽ get below the red empty line … and then super-stressing about getting to work on time the next morning because you’re about to run out of gas. Right? Have some reserves. :)
Hiding your cash in a fluffy app like CashSlap or Chime seems fun for you, but the gracious lenders of the world don’t like to see flat-zero as your available balance. Makes sense, right?
The common reply is, “My bank allowed someone to take money … and pay a bill I didn’t expect, so instead of tracking my bills, I just empty the account to zero.” Oh? Help the lender trust they will get paid back. Stay above zero.
If you want to get approved to purchase furniture, tires, or jewelry, please stop saying to your banker, “I’ll just take ALL of it out.”
Keep about $10 in there. Then eventually try keeping $100 as your new floor. The tendency to keep a balance razor-tight to zero has consequences. Just add cush. Fluff it up a bit.
A growing number of people slide ALL their money OUT of their bank … over into an app like CashApp or ApplePay for some reason. For what reason?
We asked. Here’s the answers we got back:
“So people don’t take it.”
“I can’t keep track of when the autopays are going to take something.”
“I just don’t like money in my bank.”
“Basically, I just want more control.”
“Banks are becoming goofy.”
Sliding money from your local bank account into an “online cloud account” is not helping your chances of getting approved for short-term financing. That’s the simple explanation. Habits are seen and evaluated by the algorithm. Facts are the robots track every transaction already. They know. Your approval is based on how you handle cashflow over time. Staying above zero … consistently well above zero … significantly increases your trustworthiness in the eyes of the algorithm.
:) Education, right? Truth is tough.
Developing healthy financial habits takes determination and practice.
Kinda like working out … but with digits.
Trust a tiny bit. Maybe $10 worth of trust.
Cushions keep life squooshie!
Say no to zero.
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The seller should not force their opinion.
The buyer should be open-minded to consider options presented.
Both parties should be civil and pleasant.
As a team, the buyer and seller can eventually agree on the right product for purchase.
The key is the buyer saying what they DON’T want. So helpful. “I do NOT want leather.” That sentence is quite helpful. Because how does the seller respond to that knowledge? The wise seller will eliminate all leather-like products from consideration, AND seek to know why. “Leather is not a good fit because you have a pet or because you don’t like the feel …?”
The follow-up answer bring further clarity. Knowing why. The buyer might reply, “We had leather and it was hot.” Perfect! Makes sense. We can proceed!
Artificial intelligence seeks to reduce the value of this vital conversation. However, Ai is not sentient (endowed with human-level intelligence) and cannot come up with the proper questions to navigate toward success. Sure, a trained robot can ask how many seats the family needs in their livingroom. But discovering the layout of that room in relation to the doors and tv placement … that conversation normally requires some drawing and guidance. Too many families over-buy needless furniture that eats-up precious space. Every space-filler should perform a function. Even if that chosen function is just to display beauty, that should be an intentional choice, rather than the default. Said differently, just because a room is 12’ wide does not mean the sectional needs to be exactly 12’ wide to fill that space. There are creative combinations to max-out the beauty and function of the space.
Asking skillful questions is likewise rare and refreshing.
Let’s both be the best we can to help each other. Meaning, the buyer should convey their vision, while the seller should serve to extract and expound upon that same vision. Perhaps by drawing. By utilizing product knowledge to steer clear of non-fitting options.
Shopper and Helper were a TEAM!
Maximizing the usefulness of your ASSISTANT is key to shopping joy!
Nowadays, buyers believe they can manage just fine without any helper.
However, humans are still valuable! Meaning, sales people are not evil. When properly motivated, a shopping helper CAN make the experience even more delightful!
The goal seems simple.
The main barrier to a pleasant shopping experience is surprising. Ready for the answer? Language skills.
But that sounds weird because I thought shopping was 90% visual intake. I “see” it. I like it. I buy it. Done. Right?
Well, what if you are missing out?
Missing what?
Exactly.
Isn’t part of the POINT of shopping to compare options?
KNOW the difference between two products. Evaluate necessary features.
Shopping can become overwhelming with ALL the possibilities.
Let’s back up and breathe …. from the beginning. Fresh start. What are we trying to say?
Most people naturally just want to “look around” for stuff that catches their eye. This is the OLD way of shopping.
Now with the advent of Automated Intelligence, VERBAL shopping is gaining ground.
What is “verbal shopping”? Using words to describe what you want AND what do you do NOT want.
Sounds easy. Anyone can talk. Right? Welp, kinda-right.
Using understandable, precise terms to define HOW you want your living room to FEEL is actually an adventure in language flexibility. Hmmm.
Ai processes mostly words. We speak what we want into the Ai chat, and Ai gets to work … presenting options that match our request. Hence, the elevated value of specific keywords. The ACCURACY of the request is the KEY to proper out-put.
Same is true when furniture shopping.
Please ask with precision. At least KNOW what you do NOT want. That helps, actually. For example, “We do NOT want a material that peals this time.” Sure! Totally understandable. No one does want a peeling couch. Flakes all over the floor.
Here’s an example of foggy shopping. Imagine asking a fluffy question like, “How much is the thing?” Um …. go ahead and feed that question into your Ai chat bot and see what results come back. Not inspiring accuracy. “Dear Siri or Hey Google, how much is the stuff?”
Commonly, shoppers ask basic questions that make perfect sense to themselves. There is no harm in starting a shopping conversation on simple terms. It’s fine to ask, “How much for a grey sectional.” When the listening human (aka helpful shopping assistant) on the other side of the conversation comes back with additionally-clarifying questions, the purpose is to HELP you. The motive is shrinking the options down from literally 8,000 options to less than 8 qualified results. Certainly an Ai robot can do the same. However, a human listener senses tiny nuances in HOW you asked the question. We’ll open that concept in a separate post.
Let’s run through a positive shopping conversation scenario. Please consider more than half of shopping conversations begin online. Sally asks a furniture company a powerful question: “Do you sell dining rooms?”
Pause to consider. That’s a great start, right? She narrowed down the ROOM.
Dining.
Then what?
Of course furniture stores sell dining rooms.
What would be a best follow-up question?
A HELPFUL assistant will help REDUCE stress by clarifying, “Are we thinking of PUB-height or a Standard dining experience?” [Spoken with a smile and a twinkle!]
Hmmmm. Pub seems better for us.” replies Sally.
NOW we have entered adventure land! Now we are making PROGRESS, right?
“Excellent!” assures Scarlett the Assistant Shopper Human.
Continuing without a pause, “And are we seating 4 or 6 people regularly?”
Please notice the wisdom packed in that pointed question. See the simplicity? Note the duality. A or B. That’s it. Easy.
MOST tables seat 4 or 6. Sally Shopper will come back 80+% of the time with either 4 or 6 seats. Scarlett knows her table options.
…
If Sally pauses to ponder a bit … Scarlett assists with a follow-on prompt, “Are there small children in the home?” Knowing the #1 cause of fear is kids falling out of SLIGHTLY taller stools. However, kids LOVE to climb and the seat is only 6” more from the floor and VERY sturdy and RARELY tips. Scarlett the HELPER also knows the #2 reason people opt for old-school standard-height dining is elderly people in the home who’s hips and knees will not allow them to mount a taller seat. But instead of brining up OLD age first, Scarlett wisely brought up the young kids first. See where this is going? Its’ definitely going somewhere intentional. There IS a destination that possibly Sally did not envision. But Scarlett knows the way with ease.
“How often do you open up your home for hospitality? Events, holidays?” That helps Sally consider expansion seat options. Possibly a side-bar or extra counter stools. Hmmmm, didn’t think of that part before. Scarlett sure is HELPFUL!
“And what is the theme you are wanting people to FEEL when the eat at your home? Farmhouse feel is trending. Would you like to see what that looks like?” Scarlett knows the top 4 basic looks families want.
Did you happen to snap a quick photo of your dining area to ensure everyone has proper walk-space to enter and exit the dining table?” Scarlett quips. “Awe! Honey, we should go home and measure!” Sally is feeling empowered with all this assisting!
Scarlett leads-on fearlessly! “Tables are crafted in 3 material categories: wood, glass, or stone. Did you have a leaning toward or away-from one of those materials?” Sally thinks, “Wow, this Scarlett is just CHOPPING-AWAY whole quadrants out of the catalogue. I hate glass … too much wiping down all the time. Wood for sure!”
THIS is progress. Allowing a helper to help!
Dining together has a PURPOSE!
The “I hate help” mentality spends too many hours window-shopping or screen-shopping without getting to qualified results. Instead, ASK.
Ask & receive.
Shopping with “eyes only” results in … missing large portions of potential results.
Shopping with eyes open AND mouth moving … THAT is the stuff of champions!
Aunt Bessy will over-bubble this holiday with, “Where did you FIND that, Sally! That table looks GREAT with your space and theme!” Sally will smile and think of Scarlett.
Please let us help your shopping adventure be FULL and rewarding!
Thanks for letting our team serve you & your fam!
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I don’t want help yet.
Let me just walk through first.
Not feeling social right now.
Avoiding humans today :)
Allergic to sales people :)
Hoping something jumps out and catches my eye. :)
[Here's what the sales person hears ...]
We spent a lot of energy walking around at the last furniture store, and we just need to recover a bit. :)
Got to have it today. If I don’t see it instantly, not going to order.
None of the items on display match the vision of how I want my house to look. Can you show me more?
When I think of a question, I’ll let you know. :)
LOL. Thank you for enjoying our sarcasm! :)
[Please allow a helpful person to help you. Works good.]
]]>Banking is a partnership. 🙂 Some banks help you succeed better. For example, Chime is not helpful for reaching your long-term dreams. Please compare before you jump in. Centier is a safe bank. People’s Bank is for the people. Regional Federal Credit Union has solid plans. Why partner with a bank?! #1 is home OWNERSHIP. Own stuff. Stop renting or leasing. Please. 🙂
2. Stay above zero. Keep a cushion.
3. Steady flow. $1k+ cash flowing through a local, brick-and-mortar bank per month, shows stability.
4. Plan. Write ✍️ a sequence of bills. Number them by priority. Stick with your strategy.
5. Stop bad habits. Fluffy, fun, online banks may encourage bad habits. Locking an account to hide from paying a bill is not helping your financial trustworthiness. Going below zero shows lack of self-control. Sorry, just had to say the truth. The lenders of the world want to see healthy habits. Getting your paycheck early is not a healthy habit. Begin fresh habits. :)
6. Then, come back and get furniture with us! :)
Lenders do not approve “neobanks.”
Dead-end fluffy-cloud-banks are …
For a healthy financial future, we beg you, please avoid:
Chime, Varo, Ally, Current, CashSlap, MetaBank, Netspend, Regions, Rush, PayPal, Vanilla, Bancorp
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But let’s think about it.
For decades we have been trained to hit six stores and compare.
Compare what?
In 2023, is all that fuss necessary?
“What do you mean? I always shop around.”
Oh, let’s explore that. Shopping may have improved recently.
“Around” means… making the rounds. Multiple stops. At least two or more stores hunting for something.
The second implication inside those magic words: “shopping around.”
That’s new, right? Back in 2019 we could get anything instantly. But now there seems to be a supply chain slow down. Number one to compare is “HOW SOON can I get the thing once I find it?” You’re not gonna find that answer without asking. The whole gist of this article is to get people to speak please.
It’s a new era! You SAY what you want… And we find it together. Just describe it best you can. Were you looking for something … maybe gray?
“I’ve got to see it. I’ve got to just keep going-and-going until something jumps out and lights up my eyes and touches my heart.”
To feel like I fully got the shopping urge out of my system … I have to compare product 1 at location 1 with product 2 at location 2. Generally speaking. Because I already know it’s not going to be an exact match. Especially in furniture. Couch 1 is not going to equal couch 2. Rarely do stores carry the exact same stuff. If they do, one of them is irrelevant and closing soon.
But do I really have to “shop around” in 2023? Why not just ask location 1 to help me find what I want? (Location 1 had the best reviews after all. Maybe they are the most helpful.)
Here’s the old assumption: everything is instantly available right on the show floor. Here’s the new reality: less than 10% of available products can fit on the show floor or be available instantly.
Gotta-have-it yesterday = very limited options. Patient up to seven days = hundreds of doors opening. Patient 2 to 4 weeks to get something factory-direct opens 5000 doors. Literally.
Shopping around sometimes means I’m not patient. I’ve got to have it yesterday, so I need to hit all six local and long-distance stores until what I see lands at my house.
“Verbal shopping” expresses the general parameters of what I’m aiming for … that description empowers a skilled-hunter-person to go find options FOR me and WITH me. Team effort = much better results!
We all know the robots take over the world next year. But while it’s still called today, please let a human be helpful. We love serving. Let someone feel useful.
Here are some really good examples: “My living room has gray walls.” And just watch the magic happen after that.
Another example of verbal shopping: “We are so tired of sectionals. We want to switch to something else.” Perfect! We can totally work with that information.
Verbal dining example: “Table for six with a bench please. Dark wood. Padded seats.” You realize what you just did there? You shrunk hundreds upon hundreds of options down to maybe 30.
You saved gas.
You saved time.
You verbalized the future. You just got six steps closer to what you want. You hired a helper!
Some people have to wait for product to jump up and make that special connection. Other people simply verbalize. “We want a pillow top. Probably not your cheapest version but something decent.” Totally we can work with that.
Speak it.
Get it.
This is the verbal generation. Alexa, bring me an iced tea.
Speaking narrows-down your selection by: Color group: (greys, browns, brights) Size: (8’, 10’, 12’ … 92% of families fail to measure before they go shopping for furniture. Isn’t that amazing?) Durability: (structure and material) Features: (chaise, reclining, power, gel) Time: (yesterday, 1 week, 2-4 weeks)
Think it through. Explain what you want. Good old fashion conversations are welcome. Humans are the good guys. We understand Internet shopping provides the adrenaline surge from information overload while shopping through 4000 items. But what if there was an assistant available to narrow-down the search with you?
Just say it.
Then we can help.
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Somebody somewhere would be super thankful for the usefulness of that furniture. Find some value in it and express gratitude verbally.
It’s used. Don’t expect perfection. Slight imperfections are welcome. Just remind your wallet that you did get a deal.
The ultimate function of furniture is not beauty alone. So you save big money… but the furniture is extremely uncomfortable. Did you win? Allow your backbone to participate in the voting process.
See if you can stretch time to pay it off in 90 days with no score. If time is not an option, don’t get discouraged. Make progress toward becoming qualified to access a 90-day plan by simply establishing proper banking habits. If you got Furniture for 50 bucks, please be content. No complaining. Please work within the available resources to get what you can.
Some rooms sporting the vintage look is cool. However, aspire to acquire brand new beds. Gradually improve. One room at a time.
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Arrangement should center all around ... people. Your people.
How does your family actually use your furniture?
The living room is the heart of the house.
It’s where you communicate together with all your loved ones and those closest to you. It’s where the family settles in for the night and spends quality time together. It’s one of the most important rooms in the house, if not the most important room, so it’s important to have this vital room full of the right furniture ... arranged correctly so anyone who enters immediately feels the welcoming warmth and comfort of your home.
Let’s take a look at the best ways to keep your living room furniture design layout flowing beautifully.
If you’re going to try your hand at designing your living room with your current furniture, there’s a couple of key ways to get started.
Measure twice. Fits nice. :-)
First, you’ll want to measure your living room so that you can get an idea of the ratios of space you’re dealing with on all sides. Draw it out on paper. Rough sketch is fine. It works. People-flow is vital. They have to get through, right? I mean ... the furniture should accommodate the flow and not block the major pathways, right? So draw in the paths people most commonly use.
After you’ve measured everything, some people go next-level by drawing out the actually measurements on graph paper and convert feet into inches to make the scaling far easier. Just stick to inches: 160" by 110" is for the sectional area, for example. Easier. If you’d like to spend the time, you can make furniture cut-outs to scale so that you can comfortably move around all the pieces on your drawn-out room to get a bird’s eye view of how everything looks as you go. If that sounds like too much work though, you can always find a 3D room rendering tool online. Plenty of room-render software is available for room-artists to better create backgrounds in their drawings and paintings. They often come equipped with all sorts of different looking furniture, so it should be easy to find something that’s similar looking to what you have or what pieces you’re thinking about investing in.
One main "Sha-Pow" item should anchor the room. Unlike bedrooms and office spaces, there’s not much of a predetermined focal point in a living room. That's sad. So it’s often up to you to go out and find something of visual interest to draw the eye in the room, or else your couches will end up being the focal point, and often times they’re not very deserving of that as they often lack visual interest and primarily focus on comfort as their main function. Thus, the focal point of a living room is either something you put inside like a chandelier or something that’s already architecturally interesting about the space, like a fireplace. Some people call the anchor-item a "conversation-starter." Something that gets people curious. And talking. "Oh, tell me about this!" Once you’ve got that determined, the whole of your living room will revolve around that focal point. If the focal point of your living room is a TV though, please remember to space your seating area appropriately distanced from the TV and maintain a proper viewing angle. You shouldn’t have your couch any closer than 8 feet away from the TV and the TV should only be around 30 degrees above or potentially below the couch’s level. Once you’ve established the main seating area and focal point, the next order of business is the visual balance of the room.
In most living rooms, the TV is the focal point (... by default, because most folks can't come up with something more intriguing ... which we hope you can!) and it’s often placed on a wall where the rest of the living room is crowded around this viewing-area. However, a better way to organize your living room would be to flank the TV and create a sense of balance on all sides. Lemme 'splain. That means using armchairs, chaises, and other seating to create a better sense of unity throughout your unified design. If, however, your main goal in your living room is fostering conversation (which my mother was a big fan of conversation-matters-most in her livingroom layout). Then applying a somewhat-circular configuration of seating will make the room’s focal point more centered on human interaction within the room rather than ... non-interaction with a screen. Essentially, whatever point in the room, whether it’s an interesting looking table, large television, or something else as your main focus ... the anchor is what your furniture should surround. Think (parentheses-style) when you place your furniture, as it’s supposed to create a similar, gentle emphasis.
You know ... the clutter-catcher. We all have that one table near the door or the entrance to the living room that looks and acts more like some kind of basket for all the things you don’t want to deal with at the moment. Obviously, this is an eyesore, but it’s also one that’s really hard to get rid of. “We need that table,” you whisper whenever you think of just getting rid of it. That may be true, but starting fresh is the best way to reorder your life and your living room. That catch-all table doesn’t need to be placed where it can continue to act as a magnet for mess. Being deliberate about where you place your storage solutions and surfaces around your living room surely helps you eliminate that urge to just throw the mail, receipts, and whatever else you need near the door on that same table. Reduce eye-sore. "Splan your splace." Sometimes words are so fun!
As you’re strategically swapping storage solution stations, there are a few tried-and-true placements. Clearly, a coffee table belongs in the center of your main seating area, though we’d caution you to leave around 18 inches of space between the coffee table and the seating area. Let's level-up that coffee table into a conversation table! If you’re working with a smaller space, but you still need the proper table spacing, start with some nesting tables. Those tables can be brought front and center when in-use and put on the back burner when no longer in-use without interrupting the flow of your room. Most importantly, be honest. If there really isn’t much space, don’t get huge furniture pieces. You’ll only serve to make the entire area look and feel smaller and there’s nothing very warm and welcoming about feeling cramped. Trending now are "chair side" tables, which are the modern equivalent of old-school TV trays, just updated and more stable, and sorta cute because the base slips underneath the sofa which the top supports your pop ... or soda.
It shouldn’t be very surprising that lighting is one of the most important things in any room. Hopefully, your living room comes equipped with loads of natural lighting. But if it doesn’t, there’s still a glimmer of hope (get it? glimmer?). The general consensus between interior designers and lighting experts is that more options is more appealing. Don’t get a single-super bright overhead light just so you don’t have to get other, small light fixtures. Diversify! The more light sources you have that are gently lighting the room, the better your furniture will look and the cozier the room will feel. A great way to accomplish this if you don’t have the floor space for multiple tables that can hold small lamps is with standing lamps. There’s loads of really interesting-looking standing lamps now available that can provide plenty of light in a corner of a room while not being as overpowering as overhead lights tend to be. Then complementing those fixtures with table lamps on the table space you have will make it as easy to read a magazine in your living room as it is to talk with and see other people, all without sacrificing the inviting aura your living room should have.
It's out there! Go on a manifest quest! Lots of folks look at exotic rugs and become enamored with the arty-feel without really considering how well they’ll blend with the whole room. As a word of caution, if you’re investing in an area rug for your living room, make sure the rug is centered and make sure the color scheme doesn’t clash with what you already have. There are such a broad array of rug styles now. If your rug is loud and intense, with more than 4 colors, it might work best in a mostly neutral area. Pay attention to where you’ve stationed your lighting around the room, and then place the rug near the middle point of those light sources and the room’s walls. This will help balance the room while not detracting from the points of interest you’ve already established.
Here at Community Furnishings in Hammond, we’re passionate about helping folks discover their picture-perfect pieces of furniture that help make your house into a home. That’s why we feature a variety of comfortable, stylish living room furniture pieces, like impressive, buttery leather sectionals and power-recliners. Our selection is ever-evolving as we feature specifically-curated, mid-to-high-end factories who are known for their excellent workmanship and attention to detail.
Additionally, we provide value to our community by making all of our furniture pieces actually accessible, which happens through financing options. Our creative, unique financing solutions help almost anyone get the furniture they need for their home sooner, rather than later. Smaller, streamlined, more affordable, incremental payments serve outfit your all your rooms with attractive furniture a very affordable budget. Shop our selection today, and feel free to reach out to our knowledgeable staff if you have any questions. We’re happy to help however we can, whether you’re shopping online or in-person at our furniture store serving the whole region: Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago, Munster, Griffith, Merrillville, Highland, Gary, Schererville, Dyer, St. John, Cal City, Lansing, South Holland, Hobart, Hessville, Hegwisch, plus the greater Chicagoland area. Thanks for reading!
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We just aim to break-even.
"What zip code are we going to, please?"
$0 down gets it home!
The delivery service gets roll-into your pay plan.
Let's think about it. Two strong fellas + a great attitude + the brains to solve situations + energy to lift / load / land your products safely where you want ... + the cost of the truck, maintenance, insurance, and fuel. How convenient! Stress-reducing. :-)
We all have experienced "free-level", low-quality service. Usually free service is below expectations. (Insert sad-face emoji here.) ... We intentionally did not insert the emoji; that was just a comic relief moment.
And while we are talking about "free", let's consider that "free" just means making someone else pay for it. Who is that mystical someone? Welp, turns out the only way to make high-quality, white-glove delivery service appear free ... is forcing other customers to absorb the cost of a service they did not order. Which is not ... really ... right.
"Delivering smiles daily to 141 zip codes!"
• We deliver for less when you have quality furniture items you wish to donate at the time of delivery. The value of the items given brings the delivery cost down. Many folks have a couple pieces of extra furniture they have been meaning to replace. Why not offset your delivery cost by letting us pick them up? If you have more items to sell wholesale, we can make an offer at the time of delivery. Or text pictures to (219) 308-0905.
We like delivering the same day you buy, if that is convenient for you.
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If you’re one of those folks looking to bring more peace to your office, you’ll find these tips to help you organize a better office super helpful. Find out more about how to make the most of your furniture arrangement here.
The thing to really remember when you’re designing your new office, is that you have to prioritize functionality above all else. For example, although those antique desks with wood shades are adorable, they hardly fit the computer and monitor you’ll need to complete your work effectively on a day-to-day basis. So, obviously, part of your office design should be practical, as much as you’d like it to look aesthetically pleasing. That being said, the obvious next step for functionality is to ensure that your room can have movability. Start with keeping the entryway clear. Don’t scatter papers and boxes and make it hard to exit and enter your own office. A big part of keeping your office peaceful and liveable is keeping it organized. But keeping the entryway clear comes down to more than just making sure you don’t put your work on the floor.
As a general design guideline, it’s always best to have as few pieces of furniture near the door as possible. This ensures the illusion that a room is much more wide open than it may have originally seemed. Walking through a door with nothing near you and obstructing your view of the entirety of the room is a major way to make a small room feel bigger. Offices tend to be made from one of the smaller bedrooms in a house or apartment, so this is obviously crucial for offices.
As we mentioned in our previous blog, it’s imperative to place the biggest furniture item in your room first. In an office, that’s most likely going to be your desk or desks that you’re placing before anything else. So, to help guide you in properly placing the center-piece of your room, we’ve collected a few tips just in regard to desk placement. First, always place your desk so you can see clearly when you’re sitting at your desk. You wouldn’t think it, but sitting with your back to the door will make an office feel isolated and vulnerable. Place your back to a corner instead so you can look out over the whole room with ease. Try to avoid putting your window to your back though, as oftentimes when natural light spills into the room, it’ll alter how well you can see your computer screen monitors. In fact, the best way to avoid this is to place your computer in the north or west sides of your desk, this often avoids too much sun spilling onto the screen and has also been connected to increasing creativity. Additionally, when you’re buying your desk, be sure there’s plenty of subtle places to hide your many office cords. Cords have a way of jumbling things and making your workspace feel cluttered which often decreases how much work you can get done in a day.
The idea of visual balance is based around the thought that, like a painting, a room should look balanced from the initial entry point. So, when you enter your office, there should not be a desk and a huge bookshelf tucked close together with completely open space on all other sides. This makes the room feel empty and off-kilter. But don’t think that you have to shove a bookcase into a corner to accommodate the visual balance of the room if that bookcase doesn’t fit in that spot. Instead, attempt to accomplish visual balance with art instead. You can re-balance a room with a few larger paintings to help everything feel a bit more balanced and easier on the eyes. Keep in mind, this can be accomplished with both art as well as plants or creative pottery pieces as well.
If you browse Instagram, you know exactly how important the idea of negative space is to the modern interior design community. If you come across an account that specializes in design and you don’t see loads of white wall space that’s used to make a room feel bigger, then you’ve just stumbled upon a total rarity. Negative space is one of the most important things to preserve in any room, and you don’t have to do it with just a plain white wall. Any wall that you leave a little sparse looking for the sake of making the whole room look bigger is always a great idea. This can be accomplished by just being choosier about where you place your high-profile furniture pieces so that a painting or series of pictures can be emphasized properly. This is especially important in office spaces as they tend to feel a little less lived-in while also feeling small and cramped at times. Putting the proper emphasis on making your ceiling look bigger and giving your eye more blank space to roam across can balance that effectively.
Sometimes, when you move into a new place, you find that the furniture pieces you had before just don’t work the same there. The one thing you can always rely on is that your tastes will change, sometimes minutely, but still noticeably. Unless you’re working with heirloom pieces or things that have a significant meaning to you, you’ll start to get tired of the furniture pieces you don’t much like, and that’s ok. At Community Furnishings, we realize your taste changes and we realize that sometimes the desk you had in your old office just doesn’t work in this new spot. That’s why we carry a huge selection of furniture and we’re always updating and changing our stock so that you can have the best, trendy items available to you. Best of all, we provide a variety of financing options so that you don’t have to spend loads of money right out the door. You can save a little and pay off your new furniture over a little bit longer amount of time, making the piece more affordable in incremental payments.
If you’re looking to update how your office looks because you’ll be spending more time in your home office, reach out to us. We’re always happy to help guide you in the right direction towards our favorite pieces in-stock currently. Or, you can come on into our Hammond location and shop our pieces personally. Come feel the high-quality in each of our pieces and find the perfect compliment for your new updates today.
]]>Look, we know there’s loads of Instagram accounts that prominently feature bedrooms with little hemp mushroom chairs, but strictly speaking you can only really do that if you have the right space. Most bedrooms are really only made for sleeping. They aren’t built with much room to walk around in, many even go sparse in regard to windows and natural lighting, which only serves to make a space look smaller, more cramped and dense. That means all of your mandatory bigger pieces of furniture like your wardrobe and bed will have to take center stage in the room. There’s something to starting out small additionally. If you just aim to find the perfect slots for your bed and dresser, then you can slowly work in other furniture pieces without sacrificing the whole look of the room or the functionality of the room by making yourself feel suddenly short on space.
If you’re already starting out in a small apartment, this is especially important. Take advantage of the natural lighting you have available and be sure to keep the room sparse. If you’re looking to get creative with the way the room looks. Don’t take up floor space, hang plants and paintings on the wall to make the room feel more full without making it feel more cramped-up.
Even if you’re not the most talented artist or if you don’t classify yourself as a visual learner, then you can still benefit from seeing the room laid out on the page. This will keep furniture placement simple and make the process more visual without making you move your furniture six or seven times just to get the right layout. Keep your scale in inches so that you have a basic idea of where and how everything will fit and you can get a bird’s eye view of how the bedroom should look and feel. If you don’t want to draw at all, there’s actually home design sites that allow you to create rooms in 3D. This might reduce the amount of trial and error needed to find that sweet spot you’re looking for.
With any room, you’ll always have to build the room around the biggest piece of furniture in that room. So, in regard to your bedroom, you’ll have to start with your bed frame and mattress. As a general placement rule, placing the bed on the opposite wall to the door or the largest wall with no windows is often the best place to put the bed. But, depending on the different unique architectural parts of the room, this could vary. Go with your gut first and think only about how you want the bed to look. A word of warning to the folks who like the look of a bed beneath a window, that can at times be unwise. If the window is a little drafty for example, you’ll get quite cold at night and it’ll be hard to block the sun from getting in your eyes.
Once you’ve found the perfect spot for the bed, start working on each piece’s placement from big to small. Thus, after the bed will likely come the dresser, after that you may get a second storage unit, and some bedside tables. Whenever you feel as if you’re struggling to find a placement for something, just stop and go somewhere else in the house like the common room or elsewhere. Most furniture is pretty versatile, especially bedroom furniture. So if it doesn’t fit, don’t try to force it, just re-purpose it and try again with your next bedroom in your next apartment or home.
An area rug, thankfully, is not another piece of furniture that takes up loads of room. In fact, they’re rather easy to place and can make a small, sparse room appear far more put together than it otherwise would. As a general rule to help you get the most out of your rug placement, do it after everything else is placed. While this might sound like quite the pain, it’ll actually save you from incorrectly placing the rug and making everything in the room seem a little off. If you’re shooting to place the area rug under the bed, they often look best placed in the lower two-thirds of the bed.
Guidelines are just that. They aren’t hard and fast rules and they shouldn’t be treated as such. If your area rug looks better in the middle of the room, move the rug. Go with your gut. After all, you’re the one living in this room, not an interior designer, so what you like is king. Being flexible with your designs makes the room feel more like something you created and that’s really the secret to why all those Instagram rooms look good: they’re personalized. It’s like being an artist, contemporary and abstract art work only because the artists creating those know exactly what the rules are, so they know how to break them the best. Make a room yours, before it’s anything else.
Sometimes, a room doesn’t feel like yours because the pieces you have in there just aren’t what you like anymore. People’s styles and tastes evolve over time, so come get something that fits what you like better. Community Furnishings features beautifully-made, high-quality bedroom furniture sets and pieces that appeal to all different aesthetics. You can come and find the pieces you really want and then get awesome financing options for them so it’s not a huge out-of-pocket expense right at the time of purchase.
We’re here to help make shopping for furniture and buying the furniture you love easy. Reach out to us if you have any questions and come see our ever-rotating stock today to start finding the best pieces for your room today.
]]>And now, thanks to the equally boundless imagination and American ingenuity nestled in the minds of a number of business owners, what you can buy online is no longer limited to the stuff you don’t wanna drive all the way to the general store to pick up. It’s expanded to include furniture and as exciting as this is, you should approach the opportunity with caution. As we all know, when something first starts out, the problems likely aren’t all worked out just yet. We’ve collected a few of the more crucial pieces of information so that you can make advised online furniture shopping decisions.
This should probably be pretty evident, but just in case, please look at the dimensions given for the piece. Before you click that pretty little “add to cart” button, get out a tape measure. Make sure that it’ll fit where you intend it to go, but also measure the height of your ceiling to ensure it’s not too tall. Measure your stairway and your doorway to ensure that you can get everything through the door. Add an inch or two to your own measurements, just in case they’re off and feel free to give the company selling the piece a call and ask about other proportions of the piece to make sure that you can actually use what you intend it for rather than handing over your credit card details willy-nilly.
By that, we mean you should realize now that assembly isn’t always the easiest thing you’ve ever done. There’s a reason IKEA is constantly made fun of because their furniture is hard to put together, it’s partially because their furniture is put together in a flimsy fashion and that makes the construction details more complicated as they’re compensating to make the piece more stable. With other furniture manufacturers it won’t be so cut and dry. You’ll almost certainly have to assemble most pieces because many manufacturers have to flat pack their items before they’re shipped, so that means your furniture piece will be accompanied by a thick instruction booklet that is likely poorly written.
If silkscreen printers can wreck t-shirt coloring, then there’s a pretty good chance that the brown on that leather chair is not going to be the exact hue you believe it’s going to be. Sure, photography has come a long way, and there’s very little excuse for not being able to post a decent, true-to-form picture of a product, but sometimes things can be a bit off. The color you think you see could easily be because of the tint you have on your monitor, rather than the actual color of your piece. Contact them and ask for some fabric samples just to be sure what you’re looking at is what you’re looking at.
Community Furnishings is passionate about making beautiful, high-quality furniture of all kinds accessible to everyone. We know what problems arise with online shopping for furniture and we strive to make the process as easy as possible so you are seeing the color you’re getting in the picture, the dimensions are right and all the other things that could go wrong, won’t go wrong.
]]>You know how to make living expenses more attractive? Make them a smaller chunk of your paycheck. One of the best ways to do that, in the long term, is to purchase a house, mainly a used home. Used homes sell for less but are essentially comparable to their new counterparts in every way. Sometimes, it’s even more desirable to purchase a used home than it is a new home. If you buy a used home you can purchase a piece of architecture from a bygone era, like a mid-century modern home with huge windows and interesting floorplans that differ from the average, rather cookie-cutter looking new homes on the market now. There’s something special about walking into a house and knowing there’s no exact replica right next door and the chances of having that go up with used homes as the chances of paying more also go up. Pre-owned homes come with a more flexible negotiation structure and better trees and bushes. Basically, it’s a win-win.
You know what’s cheaper than spending $40,000 for an SUV? Spending only $20,000 on the exact same SUV but only two years older. Unless you’re purchasing an iconic vehicle like the very first Tesla released or a 1950s Mustang, that car isn’t going to gain any value. That’s why it’s so cheap to buy used and so ill-advised to buy new. Used cars, on average cost 20% less than new cars, which means buying used actually puts more options in your path and gives you the ability to buy at the top of the market. You could either buy a base model new, or a nicer, better car in a better trim for a used price.
We know the thought of a used sweatband is gross, but you can sterilize a bike seat or the handles of an elliptical. If you’ve been to Sears or a workout gear outlet recently, you’re likely very familiar with how expensive at-home workout equipment can be. There’s no need to spend so much on new equipment when you can just buy them used on Facebook Swap and Cragslist.
Unless you’re shopping at a really cheap outlet, it will seem nearly impossible to find affordable, high-quality furniture for a good price. If you don’t want to pay thousands for a comfy armchair, it can be hard to find something you like as well as something your body wants to sit in. The key, if we may, is to find a used and affordable furniture outlet like Community Furnishings. We offer more than variety, we provide affordable furniture that’s stylish as well as being high-quality.
Find our best merchandise online now or head on into our location in Hammond to find the perfect set of furniture for you and your family now.
]]>Pre-owned furniture or affordable furniture comes with an option only the products of Hobby Lobby can totally claim: the freedom of customization. Feel free to paint your repurposed furniture to fit your color scheme: plaster it with artsy wallpaper, or use a stencil to put curling fleur de lis all over it, your imagination is the only limit you’ll face. If you were to try the same with brand new, expensive furniture, you’d feel guilty and the pressure to pursue perfection would be crushing. Sidestep it by purchasing a lower priced item and customizing it to your heart's desire. As long as something has the general shape you’re looking for, almost anything can be altered to fit a vision better.
Our favorite part about used furniture is that it’s affordable. If you’re in a pinch with your paychecks and you’re looking for a way to be able to afford a coffee table or spruce up your place, even if you’re just trying to get a better mattress or support for the mattress you have Community Furnishings is proud to be able to help you do that affordably. Every year the price of regular commodities, like furniture, climbs and it makes it harder for regular folks to outfit their homes with the things you associate with a regular home. To combat that, we offer beautifully crafted furniture at affordable prices with financing available if you’re looking for a way to make payments on a month-to-month basis.
While it’s few and far between that we’ll get a piece made of walnut and with origins tracing back to Europe, we still offer furniture pieces that are built to last. Beautiful, well-built furniture is much like those pieces that can trace their origins back through generations. An heirloom piece of furniture sees the family history unfold around it, every petty quarrel, great success and move to a new place is witnessed by that same piece of furniture that might one day may decorate your children’s home. It’s poetic in its significance and it’s built to last so that it can keep that status.
Whatever piece of furniture you’re looking for, we have a huge variety of options available for you. From coffee tables to mattresses, and from bunk beds to living rooms sets we’ve got everything you need to furnish a beautiful home for your family. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions about our pieces, or come and visit us to take a look yourself. We’re eager to help you find the perfect piece for your style and needs.
]]>Before now, buying furniture online was probably something akin to seeing diamond earrings for $200 in a KMart ad, only to find that the picture of the large, dazzling stones was enlarged and what’s really available could be the head of a needle set within huge prongs. Thankfully, those days are over and respectable furniture outlets with the interest of serving their customers better have turned to bringing more of their furniture online. Meaning that now you access beautiful, well-made furniture in combination with the ease of access that online shopping offers. There are a variety of benefits beyond convenience that you can gain access to by buying furniture online.
Online stores are essentially warehouses with carefully packed products just waiting on pins and needles to be shipped out to you so that your home is lit up with the perfect item. In fact, the wide variety of options makes sure that whatever you’re purchasing really is just the thing for your budget, your style, and might even be exactly what you envisioned when you first looked thoughtfully at that blank corner in your room. You may even start re-considering what could work in that spot. You can get glimpses of furniture styles you didn’t even know existed and find a mid-century modern solution to what you thought was a contemporary problem. With more options, there are more possibilities, and therefore, more freedom to pursue styles you didn’t know you could pursue.
The true wonder of the internet might actually boil down to Ecommerce options. You can have the exact same bag pulled up on multiple tabs, price comparing everything from the additional accessories to the shipping to the actual cost of the bag. Which means you can do that same thing with your furniture now. You can see if the quality of this piece has collected positive reviews on one screen while shopping for alternatives that look similar but are maybe made a bit better on another screen. This makes shopping for furniture much easier than trusting a salesman who may be trying to stear you toward a higher priced item for the commission.
Remember when getting mail as a kid was super exciting? There’s a package with your name on it? It’s probably for your birthday or a surprise prize from your doting uncle or aunt. Now, if there’s a package with your name on it, it’s probably a giant bill or some other unpleasant document that you’ll need to take time to address. With online shopping, you can put the fun back into receiving mail. That big package on your front doorstep is something you actually want, and there’s a whole series of excitement that comes with that realization.
We offer a variety of products with transparent pricing and high-quality materials. We're passionate about providing affordable furniture to everyone and specializing in ensuring that it’s beautiful in many different settings. Our tasteful collection of furniture is sure to brighten your room and fill your living space where you need it most. Shop our bedroom sets, our best sofas and much more now.
]]>When new types of furniture styles roll along, they very rarely have the staying power to become a household name. Some, however, persevere to define an era like mid-century modern furniture as well as Victorian styled items and even Tudor pieces. Those aren’t fashioned after Holbein's style anymore, they’re the Tudor era. They aren’t inspired by Valley of the Dolls, it’s just the furniture people had back in the 60s. Industrial furniture is easily that and so much more for the 21st century.
Like an art style, it’s hard to define it. Furniture in many cultures is art and that’s not different in the case of industrial furniture or other pieces that serve to encompass the styling of a time. For example, a fresco painting is not defined by much more than the medium it was created in, yet you could bring the thought of a fresco to mind at the name. In the same respect, while it’s hard to out-right define “industrial furniture” as a term, it’s much easier to readily define the materials that make up the style before determining anything else. Mainly, it consists of a utilitarian influence that is carried throughout the design of each piece. Generally, the pieces from similar lines consist of reclaimed wood, chic furniture crafted from interesting materials like metal and clothed lightly with leather. In general, however, each item that falls within the industrial furniture category can generally be defined by its modernist movement influences.
Industrial furniture produces a harsher look, but it highlights the beauty in what many think of as unsightly and seek to cover. With exposed bricks, concrete, beams and even pipes and vents industrial style and furniture alike seek to romanticize the unattractive bits of a structural accent. It accomplishes this by using monochromatic colors that put the main point of focus on the thing that, in other cases, would be considered unsightly. You'll see most industrial furniture cuts out excess like plushiness and soft materials and looks prominently toward the simplistic beauty of form. It emphasizes minimalistic principles, You’ll find all clean lines and utilitarian shapes complemented with rusted metal finishes, reclaimed, refinished wood and more that makes the pieces look rustic without aging them uncharacteristically.
Figuring out how to access a more industrialized and attractive, yet minimalistic aspect of your home begins with the pieces you already have. If they seem too plush, or rather, over-finished get rid of it. Industrial furniture almost exclusively looks good with other clean-lined pieces. Mid-century modern, for example, pairs well with industrial chic. You can pair a set of steel blue mid-century modern chairs and a couch with a coffee table that’s rocking a knotty wood top and rusted metal legs. It would work even better against a rough-hewn brick backdrop, but the idea stands that industrial can suit many different aesthetics because it is so low maintenance, you just won’t be able to successfully pair a red, curling profiled chairs from the Edwardian era unless you’re a professional designer.
Don’t limit yourself to one style, mix and match to bring an entirely personal character to your home. Search our online database of beautiful and affordable furniture that fall into different style categories and that can be paired comprehensively. Questions about how you can pair furniture and put a room together, feel free to contact us. We’re here to help however we can.
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Imagine you’re trying to sell some furniture ... maybe for a friend.
How do you arrive at a good price point? Here are seven helpful considerations:
How many people will see your items? The more people who see it increases your chances of finding an interested buyer, right? How much foot traffic will come to a yard sale, realistically? Give it a good, ballpark guess. 15? 50? 100? That number is probably the main factor in whether your item will sell. How many responses do you conservatively estimate you will get online? Exposure is key.
Do you have time and space to store this stuff for another 2 weeks or a month? What is your deadline to make it disappear? The longer you can hold onto it, the better chance a motivated buyer finds you. But time is valuable. If you are moving or need your space back, then your price should reflect that reality.
How much energy is invested into moving the stuff? What about cleanup time? Delivery cost (fuel / truck / time / manpower)? Americans love convenience. If it’s easy, we do it. When you try liquidating several bulky furniture pieces, labor becomes a factor. Plus the energy that goes into responding to potential buyers, gauging risk, scheduling appointments, and dealing with no-shows.
Emotions may not determine the final outcome. But emotions can not be totally avoided. People develop a history of interaction with their home decor pieces & furniture. That’s just human nature. Sometimes a piece represents a memorable relationship. It is hard to emotionally release some items.
In your best estimation, does the general public have a strong desire to own this item? Single chairs do not have the demand that a set of 6 matching chairs carry. Are people buying retro-fabric sleeper sofas nowadays? Maybe college students will want it :-) How about those old entertainment centers where the doors close over the 30” tv? Nope! Why not? Huge screens are all the rave. When the demand is low … the price must be low also.
The top reason a house does not sell is the price is over-inflated / fluffed up. Finding that sweet spot of a realistic price up front is vital to selling success. In retail world, fluffing is adding “frosting” to the base price. Asking too much can backfire. There are two ways to deal with the natural instinct all buyers have to want confirmation that they got the best deal possible. First, the seller can clearly indicate the price is solid. “It is what it is.” Secondly, some sellers prefer to encourage haggling by asking for 20% to 50% more than what they’d be willing to accept as a final offer. It’s fine either way. Just clarify if the price is a ballpark / starting point or if the price is your realistic ending point. Some people like fluffing. Others like being solid. Everyone likes clarity. Don’t be afraid of the common shopper question, “Is this your best price?”
Sometimes you run out of time to sell your furniture, or you need your space back. That’s where we come in. We buy acceptable furniture at wholesale. You get convenient removal service, the confidence of knowing it when to help a good cause, and some money in your pocket! We’d love to be your Plan B.
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"Your personal comfort is worth the investment." ~ Said Someone Smart, ... once
Good becomes great when it's the same quality as that other place but for a couple hundred dollars less.
Stay safe in the center.
Come experience a good comfort fit.
And your wallet will feel good too!
We are blessed to average 40 to 50 fresh furniture pieces arriving daily. There is no shortage of inventory ... fresh furniture is flowing inbound!
One easy way to see what just arrived is following our OfferUp channel.
WHAT IS IT?
OfferUp is a free smart phone app to sell & shop for local stuff. (Less creepy than Craigslist, with built-in anonymous messaging!)
HOW DOES IT WORK?
WHY SHOULD I?
Some excellent items fly through here so fast! The average stay for a sectional is <3 days. In and gone. Be nice to yourself and don't miss what comes in.
If you consider that 40 items multiplied by 6 days a week = 240 furniture items coming through the doors each week, there is a high likelihood that the item you are hunting for will show up soon enough.
HOW DO I START?
Check it out: https://offerupnow.com/p/8862975/
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Cash is king, right?
No. Actually, plastic is stronger than paper.
The person who implies their cash is stronger than plastic needs to understand retail math. Card-based (plastic) purchases are typically a 30% larger ticket size than straight cash buys. This is called ticket lift. People like using their debit cards … a lot. Debit & credit cards produce larger purchases than cash does, across the board.
So before you tell a retailer, “Hey, I’ve got cash!” Consider the retailer is hearing you say, “I plan to spend 30% less than your average card-carrying customer today! Isn't that exciting news for you?”
Another implication of saying, “I have cash” is “I would like a discount because I have superior buying power with cash in hand.” But that is not true. Card purchases are larger tickets. (And financed deals are usually double and triple the size of a card purchase.) Flashing cash is not good leverage to position yourself for a discount. You are actually admitting you have less to work with.
Let’s avoid taxes.
Not always, but sometimes when a customer says, “But I’ve got cash” the intention is bypassing sales tax. What the buyer is saying could be, “We should agree together to withhold from the government their silly sales tax. I pay cash so you don’t have to report this sale. Are you okay with that?” The buyer is sort-of inviting the retailer to participate in fraud. The Indiana Department of Revenue is pretty serious about collecting their sales tax. It belongs to them. Smart retailers who intend to stay in business long term are not deceitful with the government. No one can quite complicate your life (and put you out of business) faster than the government, especially if they believe you are withholding taxes from them.
It's all in the attitude.
No one is better or less than another person because they have a payment method preference. Some people do not like debit cards for a variety of reasons; including card fraud, identity theft, overspending, or any number of reasons. That is fine. Cash is just as welcome as any other payment method. However, the attitude that says, "I've got big bucks so you better treat me better than you treat other people" is unacceptable. My purchasing power does not make me better or less than anyone else.
Think ahead.
Here are some expected responses you may hear from honest retailers when they hear the saying, “I can pay cash now.”
Ask differently.
Ask for a discount in the preferred language of the retailer.
Retailers do give discounts, but you have to speak the right words. Sometimes a retailer can be persuaded to provide a discount if they just had (or are soon planning) a clearance event.
“This will be part of the clearance, right?”
See, now the retailer has something to think about. Or try,
“This item has been here a while. I can help you make space for new things coming in!”
See, that is real concern some retailers have: turning over old inventory to get a fresh look on their show floor. Your proposition has to make sense to both parties.
Point out a defect that might have been overlooked when the price was established. “Did you see how this drawer sticks?” See, now the retailer has to think, “Maybe THAT’S why this piece has been here awhile.” Address the retailer from their point of concern.
Look for signs.
When a retailer has clear policies posted about prices, just honor their written rule. If there are no pricing policies posted, go ahead and ask for that special deal.
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We are not trying to make a profit on delivery.
Our goal is breaking even on delivery cost.
Your delivery cost MAY be reduced by donating ACCEPTABLE furniture at the time of delivery. Allow us to clarify:
We must first evaluate the furniture you’d like to donate. Evaluation happens when you text photos of items to (219) 308-0905, or when our staff sees the items in person.
We reserve the option to reject unacceptable items.
IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION, if we estimate the items carry a sufficient resale value to more than offset the delivery cost, then we return a PORTION or POSSIBLY all of your delivery cost in the form of a check, cash, or store credit.
We trust you understand Community Furnishing is NOT GUARANTEEING FREE delivery service. Items may be rejected or valued as less than the full delivery cost.
We're just trying to work with people - by providing a service in exchange for stuff. There has to be a balance. The value of the stuff serves to offset the cost of the service. We hope this makes good sense. Thank you for taking the time to read this!
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