After the lighting place visit, we went to Compasspoint to try our luck to find the extra 30% discount for the recliner sofa that we are eyeing... kekeke ... some more its National Day mar, hopefully there are some promo loh... To our dismay, the promo piece is another one...
Follow day, which is a public holiday, we join Steven and Sherry to Balestier to see "A lighting.com" trying to see if we can find our lighting... I have seen a few design on their website and find their price very competitive... but when we see the real thing, somehow, we find the items a bit "chiong" lei... din get anything in the end.... we went to AMK and see a few furniture shop like courts and V.hives... cos we wanted to find dinning chair also... saw a few nice ones on v.hives website but again real thing look very different....
On Thursday, we went back to Jurong and visited Chelsea. Guess both Nick and myself are a bit tired as well... we decided to just get all our lighting from Chelsea. Their prices wasn't the best but I guess consider reasonable ba. I actually wanted to get a nicer light (like some hanging kind) for our MBR... saw 1 that I really like and it has dangling crystals (I doubt its crystal but the boss claim it is), the light cost 400+ way bursting our budgets! Nick suggest that we settle for something within our budget next time got more budget then change loh... We settled all our lights within the 800+ range, installation cost separately. Lighting to be delivered in 1plus month time.
On Friday I saw on forum recommending 2 shops which sell dinning chair. I saw on website a piece of acrylic chair which is not bad. The pricing for both shop diff about 40 bucks.
That evening, we went to www.comfortfurniture.com.sg (recommended in forum) to see if we can find the dinning chair... the other shop closed at 5pm while this shop closed at 7pm. I wanted a steel light kind to match the dinning table. The shop was closed at 6pm but we manage to walk around as one of the logistic lady still around. The lady suggest we come back again on Sat.
On Sat, Nick went back to school and he was released earlier than scheduled so we decided to go back to comfortfurniture again. But pior to that we went to Gnee Hong Furniture (www.ehongfurniture.com) which was also recommended in forum. Gnee Hong is a warehouse kind of place... the chair not cheap also...unless the offer piece. The one they having offer now is only 40+ and its the same chair we saw at IFC selling 100+ over... We tried on the chair but the backing is very weak.. a bit flimsy.
We saw one with "leather" and steel leg for $109... I rem I saw a similar piece at comfortfurniture on offer at $69+... decided to go Comfortfurniture...
When we reach there, no one serve us... then we saw a salesman and he kinda bo chap us also... We wanted to get the offer piece which is red cover and steel legs.. usual price 200+ now at $69. He say no more stock already... only left 1 piece. Then I saw another piece which look the same. He say its a diff model, thou it look the same. When I ask him for pricing, he say same price at $69, but 1 piece only... I dun mind get these 2 pieces but he like bui song to sell us. He purposely say these are 2nd hand piece... I say you mean showroom piece rite... he reply "Yes, so its 2nd hand loh" I got a bit pissed off by his attitude... I guess atas places like this only serve ppl who are well-dressed... Because as usual me and Nick is in our most Lok Kok and nuai nuai image. He give me a feeling that he is trying to say "aiya u guys cant afford"... Nick suggest we look at other pieces of chair... but I bui song liao...
I like in particular 1 egg shape kind of chair they have... but bui song to neg or ask.. It cost abt 200. Not sure where else have this design for half its price? :P Kekekek....
We went to Milemium walk, cos harvey normal flagship store is there... We spend less than 15 min there. Because the price is enough to KILL... scary loh... din know harvey norman de flagship store got such a killer pricing! Nick say if we went to Milemium walk before we went to Gnee Hong, we would have just bought our chair in Gnee Hong liao... Kekekeke..
Nick suggest that we go buy the cheap cheap stools from neighbourhood area or see got cheaper alternative from Ikea... he feel no point we spend like 100 per piece on something we dun really like and next time wanna change also heartpain. We decide to just KIV the dinning chair.
We went to Compasspoint trying to see if we can grab the additional 30% discount... thou I am not too hopeful cos it wasnt any PH... but we can go gain city to see aircon also.
As we are approaching the seahorse store, I saw the promo sofa for last week decrease (cost more now)... I wasn't too hopeful liao... But Nick was eying the recliner price tag and he tell me "有希望"!!! Cos there is an additional piece of paper! I saw!!!! Extra 30% discount!!!! "Mai tan liao" I shouted in glee!!! Heheheh... But Nick was acting Cool wor... he slowly sit down and tell me "Ai zai, test test 1st lar"... I say him, "Eh dun try to hide your joy lar!... quick go and place order" He reply" Confirm ar, see see 1st lar" Kekekke... Gei siao loh.... I can sense he is just trying to cover up his joy loh... :P
After we try on again on the recliner and he approach the sale lady... I told him the snobbish one not in today... kekeke so really our day... cos there is is snobbish sale lady whom I approach every week (for the past 3 times) to ask when the discount would be... she always like bo chap.... We got this lady whom we never see before to place the order. She tell Nick frankly that its not full leather thou it state Italy real leather. The front part is real leather but behind is PVC. At least she is frank. Seriously I dun expect real leather for this kind of price...Kekekke... When Nick ask her what if we notice defects when receiving, she say call customer service... kinda made me worried... cos usually when one ask about defect, the usual reply should be "no problem one, if got problem then call ..." but she is immediately tell us where is the number to call. Nick say Seahorse quite established so he not so worried. I took a photo with Nick's hp but din realise the picture was not taken as his hp memory is full..hahhaha... next round got pass by then take again ba.
We finally got the recliner sofa... thou the search for dinning chair experience is bad but the day end with a sweet "victory" of the sofa we long awaiting for. Kekekke....
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