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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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20 March 2005 - 6:14 pm
I've been on an on-again/off-again search for new living room furniture for about a year, but until now I haven't found any furniture that met my "looks great but costs next to nothing" criteria. So I was pretty excited to see the ads on TV for the $799 sofa set at Jennifer Convertibles. There was some doubt in my mind as to the quality of the pieces before I went, but they turned out to look even nicer than the ones on TV. But as with all large monetart decisions, this is a tough one to make. The furniture isn't perfect: the cushions aren't reversible so they won't last as long as cushions that I could flip. On the other hand, would I really flip the cushions? And if this set costs half as much as another couch, it should only need to last half as long, right?
Anyway, please take a look at the picture I took of the furniture and tell me what you think. The ottoman is a $200 additional charge, so for now don't include that in your considerations.
Also, for comparison's sake, this set at flickr has a couch from La-Z-Boy that I'm also considering. The difference is that the La-Z-Boy couch by itself is $649 and a matching loveseat and chair would each add something like $500-600.
Anyway, please take a look at the picture I took of the furniture and tell me what you think. The ottoman is a $200 additional charge, so for now don't include that in your considerations.
Also, for comparison's sake, this set at flickr has a couch from La-Z-Boy that I'm also considering. The difference is that the La-Z-Boy couch by itself is $649 and a matching loveseat and chair would each add something like $500-600.
Posted by on 20 March 2005 at 6:15 PM
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I'm actually considering the same couch in the clay color, but they told me 12 weeks for delivery. I like the tufting on the ends of the couch...very retro. It's the one thing that makes the couch interesting. My apartment is difficult in terms of getting a sofa up the stairs and this one has removable arms...but I hate to go 3 months without a couch. How long were you told? I've also read some really bad reviews of Jennifer...thoughts?
Posted by Julia on 11 April 2005 - 10:27 AM
I only waited a couple of weeks for my furniture, but they did tell me that the sleeper version and the orange fabric version were on back order.
I too had also read some thing about Jennifer, mainly that they did lots of bait-and-switch advertising and that they didn't support their warranties as they should have. I haven't run into any problems so far, but I've only had the furniture a few weeks and didn't get their extended warranty. Really, the price is so cheap that it helps to offset worries about things like that, at least for me.
Posted by david on 14 April 2005 - 11:35 PM