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Dan
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29th Nov 11 at 21:57   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
We are looking to buy a sofa in the coming weeks. We have found the one we would like in SCS.

They are selling it for £1599 at the moment (has been £1299 in sales)

For some reason, i decided to ebay search and came accross the exact sofa in this listing...

Ebay Listing

We just called them and they say they can do the same sofa for £925 (thats a 2 corner 2) so a saving of around £500.

They gave us their web address 123Sofa.co.uk

It all looks too good to be true. dfs sofas over 1500 cheaper etc. They have good feedback on ebay however.

After reading "about us", it says they manufacture sofas and sell direct. So am i right in thinking they make them to copy the big name shops sofas? check who.is and it comes back as a street address which is a housing only road.

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29th Nov 11 at 21:58   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
house day tbh


I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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I wonder if any of us will be alive when the DFS sale finishes?
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quote:
Originally posted by Ste
house day tbh


Whats it got to do with house day? Opinions on a company, not on if the sofa will match my curtains



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29th Nov 11 at 22:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ShEp
I wonder if any of us will be alive when the DFS sale finishes?
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pay on credit card and if it turns out dodgy get the money back, looks alright to me though, also has an 0844 number which is normally an OK sign. are they VAT registered?
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Its cash on delivery i think i read. Not checked if vat reg, how i do that


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29th Nov 11 at 22:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hmm, the post code I found seems to be in a shopping centre in Leeds.

The domain is registered to Batley (Wakefield way)

[Edited on 29-11-2011 by Cavey]
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Where abouts in Batley? I'm not far from there so might be able to help..

Also, which shopping cente in Leeds?

[Edited on 29-11-2011 by Danny P]
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http://whois.domaintools.com/123sofa.co.uk

Registrant's address:
16, Mortimer Street,
Healey
Batley
WF17 8BN
United Kingdom

and the post code I found was...

123Sofa.co.uk
Free Delivery
Yorkshire
LS15DW
Dave
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None of the big sofa companies make their own but it seems pretty unlikely the manufacturer would be selling the same sofa they make for DFS/SCS on the side, I don't think they'd keep their contract for long if they did.

There are two main companies round here who make sofas for the big retailers but you can't buy direct from them unless you are an employee or sometimes when they have a clearance sale.
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29th Nov 11 at 23:07   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Could be a replica or actually the same as you would have got from a big name, you wouldn't know unless you got the two next to each other.
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30th Nov 11 at 06:17   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I'm thinking it's defo a replica. Just concerned about quality.

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Ebay ad says 'like SCS but cheaper' suggests replica to me.
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As far as I could tell when I was looking at sofas all the major high street ones must have been made in exactly the same factory, they were all very very similar.

Which would suggest that it's not that surprising they'd have exactly the same thing.
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30th Nov 11 at 09:24   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yea. Tempted but worried its going to be shit quality.

500 is Alot to save but 925 is Alot to waste

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I'd personally be worried about the quality. If (like me) you spend a lot of time on it, you've got a littleun and stuff then I'd be wanting the dollar one.

I spent more on a 11" laptop to put it into perspective. But less on a Mazda MX5
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30th Nov 11 at 12:10   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Just had an email back. They can build it in any colour. So obviously they are making it themselves.

Think I might steer clear

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BarnshaW
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why? does not mean it will be any worse, sounds like a good deal to me
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan
Just had an email back. They can build it in any colour. So obviously they are making it themselves.

Think I might steer clear


They won't be making it themselves. They will be an agent/distributor for the company. They will probably order the sofa from the factory and just deliver it straight to you. Worth doing instead of paying well over the odds. I ordered 2 x 2 seat maxi's in blue leather, with beech trim for £720 delivered from italy from an agent. Saw the same sofa's in DFS for over a grand each!!!
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30th Nov 11 at 18:50   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hmmm.....

I dunno wtf to do. Need to find someone who has used them

Do you get a notification if you post on someone elses yahoo question, then someone else posts after you?

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My girlfriends parents once got a sofa from SCS (or another big sofa retailer) and it was shit. No end of problems with it.

Luck of the draw. Most probably made in the same factories anyway. There aren't that many sofa manufacturers about tbh.

Sainsburys, Tescos and the like don't actually have their own factories making own brand food.

Probably a similar principle.
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Couldnt you wait until january sale for it?
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January sale is an option, but im highly doubting it will go down to under 1k

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ive bought suites, leather beds, glass dinning tables, office chairs, bathrooms etc from ebay companies, i really dont see what the problem is

they have 0 overheads unlike dfs with their huge showrooms, they dont mess about with credit and advertising, and sell cheap. Will be the exact same one from the exact same factory

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