Have you purchased furniture recently?
Hey, if any of you folks have purchased furniture and help me with the journey in the comments, it will be really helpful.
Don't start a furniture business unless you have a clear idea on how to crack the supply chain. It's very very hard to manage large packages with slow turnaround and high damages.
Will be happy to answer more questions.
Ps - I currently work at a furniture retailer with online and offline presence.
I have purchased from Pepperfry, Zefo and urbanladder
How was the experience?
What made you comfortable buying online and not visiting an offline store?
Firstly.. I’m an introvert so basically I don’t like or wish to go out and buy. Not just furniture but 99% of all my purchase i do online if I find an option.
Secondly, I tried initially by ordering cupboards from Pepperfry in 2017 as I needed it immediately than going with carpenters take time to build. That’s my first experience.
Then with that experience then got the mattress from UrbanLadder once in 2018 and then once from Amazon during Covid times.
With Zefo, I got one sofa and cot as they had options earlier that use for 1 or 2 years and return it at 40% or 50% cost buy back.
With all experience had been good. Only cons I see is mostly the furniture is made of engineered wood and not solid wood.
I purchased wardrobe from wakefit website, it's of very poor build quality and not significantly cheaper than others,
Also got a desk from pepperfry because flash sale delivered at ₹1500 market price would be atleast ₹5000
most of old furniture purchased offline from traditional brands like @home, godrej, etc.
Did you purchase a furniture in stock or did you get it made? Like was it delivered on the spot or did you select a design at the store and they got it made ?
Form existing stock, I'm mostly talking about particle board /MDF furniture.
Not local store
But Ikea instead, as a function of moving into a new unfurnished rental house a few months ago
Wakefit for the beds
Will probably stick to Ikea for the next couple of years for most furniture pieces until I see something as convenient, or until I end up making significant money to do a lifestyle upgrade (not in sight :p)
