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It is now time at the swamp to start setting up patio and lawn and garden items. Lots of garden tools, garden chemicals, grass seed, planters, fugly yard statues, folding chairs and patio furniture. Oh the patio furniture. Tables and chairs and umbrellas and fountains and benches and swings and a gazebo that takes at least two hours and three people to build (at least I didn't have to face it alone).
We've gotten to building and setting up the dining sets, and we're running into big-time problems with the swivel rockers. They always used to be so simple. Just a seat and base, and you pushed the seat into the base and you were done. This year's swivel rockers are a bit more complicated, with a part that comes in between the seat and the base, and hardware to connect it all together. I guess this will result in a sturdier chair.
The issue is these chairs are craptacularly packaged. They come in cases of two, with two seats, two bases and two cushions in each box, plus a smaller box that contains the two middle parts. There's also one set of hardware (bolts, nuts, washers, allen wrenches, etc) in each box, plus one set of instructions. In short, they're packaged to be sold as two-packs.
But the company wants to sell the chairs as singles, and the pricing and on-hands are based on the chairs being sold as singles. This means if somebody buys only one chair, we have to give them the one base, seat, and cushion, and open the small box and take out one middle part, and divide the hardware exactly in half and keep the other half separate and together in a package of some sort, and copy the instructions so the person who buys the other chair in the box gets their hardware and instructions.
Because of this, we cannot assemble and display any swivel rockers on the patio flat until corporate gives us further direction. We had gotten a memo indicating only a couple styles of rockers were packaged this way, but we've discovered all of them are packaged this way.
I don't know if corporate screwed up or the manufacturer did. Either way it's yet another headache we don't need.
We've gotten to building and setting up the dining sets, and we're running into big-time problems with the swivel rockers. They always used to be so simple. Just a seat and base, and you pushed the seat into the base and you were done. This year's swivel rockers are a bit more complicated, with a part that comes in between the seat and the base, and hardware to connect it all together. I guess this will result in a sturdier chair.
The issue is these chairs are craptacularly packaged. They come in cases of two, with two seats, two bases and two cushions in each box, plus a smaller box that contains the two middle parts. There's also one set of hardware (bolts, nuts, washers, allen wrenches, etc) in each box, plus one set of instructions. In short, they're packaged to be sold as two-packs.
But the company wants to sell the chairs as singles, and the pricing and on-hands are based on the chairs being sold as singles. This means if somebody buys only one chair, we have to give them the one base, seat, and cushion, and open the small box and take out one middle part, and divide the hardware exactly in half and keep the other half separate and together in a package of some sort, and copy the instructions so the person who buys the other chair in the box gets their hardware and instructions.
Because of this, we cannot assemble and display any swivel rockers on the patio flat until corporate gives us further direction. We had gotten a memo indicating only a couple styles of rockers were packaged this way, but we've discovered all of them are packaged this way.
I don't know if corporate screwed up or the manufacturer did. Either way it's yet another headache we don't need.
Buuhhhhh, what?! 
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