Our Love Nest!!

Bought our living room TV!

Bought our living rm TV from the Pioneer Suntec Rdshow today. Really quite satisfied with our purchase cuz we got a really good deal with 7 freebies and because it was the last day, they really slashed the price! The boss of the guy who served us said that they would rather quote a lower price in error than totally let a customer go! Heehee..really quite happy cuz this is the first big ticket item we have bought for our house!



Saw the electrolux washer and dryer which we were eyeing at the Marina Sq reno fair too, the prices for both items were about $400 lower than the market prices! However, we didnt get them cuz my FIL said he could get the same, if not better prices for us..anyway, there's no real rush for electronics items, cuz they are readily available. My only concern is the dining set and sofa, cuz those we are eyeing needs to be either imported or made and would take about 6-8 weeks. So I really hope we can order soon. Otherwise when our house is ready, our furniture would not have arrived yet.

Went to view sofas at this place which my FIL recommended to us at Millenium walk. My hubby & I really like this particular L-shaped sofa. It really feels so comfortable and it has this mechanism which allows the back rest portion to be either folded down or folded up for more support. But the price really threw us off! $!2,000!!! It's way out of our budget, think we will probably customise with one of the local companies, for a much lower price!

Went mattress viewing too, but we really tried until we were confused. Cuz there are just too many brands and ranges out there. For me, I personally prefer mattresses which are softer, but hubby prefers those firmner ones. So I guess, we have to settle for intermediate softness. However, hubby rather likes the omazz mattress which is really soft, but it costs $4399 at harvey norman after discount and today was the last day of offer. I think it's kind of expensive but hubby said he would rather spend more on mattress and less on sofa. I dun think we should spend that much on sofa too, cuz after all, if we get a cheap one and it spoils after a few yrs, we can change, so got variety. If we get a really expensive one, we will be stuck with it for ages!!

Anyway, was kinda pissed off with the Simmons sales person's attitude. This is the 2nd simmons gallery we have visited and we think their sales assistants or whatever you call them, have some kind of "stuck up attitude". Maybe cuz they feel that they are one of the few brands around, which have mattresses fully imported from USA/ Canada, unlike other big brands, which only imports materials from overseas, but manafacture their mattresses in Asian countries. Let me explain why we feel the sales person was stuck up. Firstly, when we walk into the shop, the sales person continued sitting at the counter, although she did throw us a slight, reluctant smile. Would you expect that of a shop with glass doors? You would expect the sales assistant to come up to you and say " May I help you?" or something to that extent. Cuz after all, the shop consists of different mattresses lying around and you dun expect a layman to go around the shop, knowing what is what rite? Then after a while, because we were standing there, seemingly lost, she came up to us. And we had to ask her whether she had a mattress, which is not too soft or hard. Imagine, she didn't even ask us what we were looking for! And she never even ask us to try the beds! But, of course, we took our own initiative and tried lah. Then she asked us if we were getting the mattress today. Wah lau, come on lah, your service also not very good, and we step in only for a while and you expect us to place an order? Of course, we told her we wanted to look at other brands too. Then she said, "Oh, you still want to look around?" or something to that extent. We were thinking, of course lah, you think we come in to your shop, means we have eliminated all other brands, is it? Finally, we asked her whether they threw in freebies like pillows and mattress protectors, which all the other brands do and happily tell us. And she just cooly replied that " we will discuss that when you have decided that you want to buy our mattress"! This type of service really puts us off, and somehow, we are not so inclined towards purchasing from them anymore although my original impression of them was quite good.

posted by kimmie @ 11:49 PM