Too lazy to put it together

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Had the following sucktacular exchange today.....

SC= duh
Me=One by one the penguins steal my sanity

SC: (referring to a patio chair of some sort) I'd like to buy this.
Me: Okay! (hands her the pull tag for this item) Just take this to the cashiers and we'll load it up for you.
SC: Oh no. I want the display!
Me: Unfortunately, we do not sell our display models until the item has gone to no reorder and there are no more boxed ones in back.
SC: But I don't want to have to put it together.
Me: I'm sorry but I could get into trouble if I sold the display when we still have boxed ones in back (not entirely true)
SC: Well...I'll just get a chair someplace else then!
Me: Great. Have a nice day!

Herewith, the reasons why we do not sell displays until all the boxed ones are gone:

• It prevents us from having to blow payroll to assemble new displays
• Selling the displays early is how we kill our margins on furniture. The boxed items sit in the backroom getting marked down repeatedly because nobody knows we have them.
• In the case of baby furniture, state law forbids it. Won't somebody please think of the children, you know.
• The boxed items usually will be in better condition.

I already had to assemble a new display for a different set of chairs, because sold the display prematurely. All the chairs in question required a fair amount of nuts, bolts and cursing to put together.

Aside: If people saw the amount of care and effort we put into building our displays, they'd never want to buy them.

[Bright_Star]

What's so hard about putting something together?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Quoth Bright_Star

What's so hard about putting something together?

Some people have difficulty putting Tab A into Slot B - believe it or not.

Some, like my Mom, have trouble with just written instructions. She has to have pictures as a guide or she's lost.

Myself - I like both. I don't have too much trouble as a general rule putting stuff together. I guess I'm just mechanically inclined that way.

So, as a result of that, guess who gets stuck with putting together floorstands of candy bars b/c the receiver is lacking in that capacity?

Three guesses, first two don't count.

[Andara Bledin]

I like putting things together.

That is, provided the things are not built in such a way that putting them together requires modifications to the pieces. I've run into things that were so badly produced that you would have to sand things down, cut things off, or otherwise modify some of the pieces in order to put them together.

^-.-^

[Shabo]

Indeed, I enjoy putting my furniture together that I got from Ikea. It wasn't too bad, and I got everything all set with not too much difficulty from their bad instructions. I can understand why people wouldn't want to assemble it themselves, but seriously... a chair is not that hard!

[protege]

Quoth DGoddess

Some people have difficulty putting Tab A into Slot B - believe it or not.

Yet, many of these people have no problem, um, putting Tab A into Slot B....to bring *more* stupid people into the world

I've seen the "careful attention" that goes into some of those displays. Many are put together with care...but again, the same amount aren't. They're just thrown together simply because management wants something visible quickly. As such, corners are sometimes cut to save time. Because of that, I'd rather put the thing together myself

[Andara Bledin]

Aside from my love of assembling things...

I'd want to put something together myself because I'm a control freak and don't trust anyone else to do it "right."

^-.-^

[Becks]

My store now offers assembly for an extra fee of...either $10 or $25. I'm not sure if any customers have taken them up on that.

Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh

Won't somebody please think of the children

Good use of a Simpsons quote!!

[Jack7957]

Quoth DGoddess

Some people have difficulty putting Tab A into Slot B - believe it or not.

My father in law is like that. He said it took him and a friend two days to put together a wooden two drawer file cabinet. Meanwhile, in less than I day I built my bookshelves. Eight kits, using plywood for the backer, bolted to each other and the wall.

[Imogene]

Quoth DGoddess

Some people have difficulty putting Tab A into Slot B - believe it or not.

"That's what she s-"
"If you say 'That's what she said' one more time, I'm gonna pop you."