Yup yelling, and trust me, Just don't deal with them!!!!!!!!
Don't buy "ashley" furniture!
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OK, but tell me why you feel that way?
I feel the same way about RC Wiley.
Wow, that sucks, we have a house mainly furnished with Ashley furniture and it's been great. Had it about 8 years and the only reason we are looking at new furniture is because the wife, well because the wife says we need new.
Hope it's not the furniture, and just some dumb a$$ salesman.............What happened we have had good luck with them
Love it
I love Ashley. Always had great luck. Inexpensive, but sturdy. I had some that I moved 4 times and it held up well. Don't judge the furniture because of the crap place you bought it from.
I love Ashley. Always had great luck. Inexpensive, but sturdy. I had some that I moved 4 times and it held up well. Don't judge the furniture because of the crap place you bought it from.
I would like to know why also. I supply raw materials to furniture and cabinet makers like Ashley. I'm not sure if they are one of our accounts or not. The American furniture and cabinet industry is being hammered these days. First it was the cheap chinese imports and now the financial crisis. I'm am seeing the wood products industy evaporate before my eyes. Every major cabinet maker like Bertch, Omega, American Woodmark, Medalian, ect has been laying off massive amounts of workers in the last sixty days.
If it was sales or service related please let us know. American quality should be superior and worth the extra money. Many imports brought in our country contain toxics in their wood. They use extremely high levels of formaldehyde in their glues for veneering. The American industry has been fighting to keep these poisons out of your kitchens and bathrooms for years. But it starts with the consumer. They need to be educated and not buy imported wood products.
If it was sales or service related please let us know. American quality should be superior and worth the extra money. Many imports brought in our country contain toxics in their wood. They use extremely high levels of formaldehyde in their glues for veneering. The American industry has been fighting to keep these poisons out of your kitchens and bathrooms for years. But it starts with the consumer. They need to be educated and not buy imported wood products.
Ethan Allen
My best advice is to talk with a knowledgeable sales person. Many domestic furniture companies have chosen to use imported materials in their manufacturing. My best guess is that most large American furniture companies carry different lines of products to compete in the industry. The lower end product lines are made with imported materials and their high end lines would be all American made.
Cabinet and furniture making begins with raw materials. Next time your in Home Depot, Lowes, or Menards, look at the sheets of hardwood plywood in the racks. The Chinese hardwood plywood will be warped and twisted. They use inner-ply veneers that are not dried and conditioned properly and add massive amounts of formaldehyde to the glue mixture to make the plys stick together. You can tell the difference between Chinese plywood and domestically produced plywood by the number of plies in the construction of the panel. Chinese plywood will have 13 to 15 inner plys of veneer in a standard 3/4" panel vs. 7 plys for a domestically manufactured panel.
Recently, the California Air Resource Board (CARB) has adopted laws to stop the sale of high emission formaldehyde panel products coming into the United States. We are hopeful that these laws will protect the consumer against potentially harmfull products in our industry.
My best advice is to talk with a knowledgeable sales person. Many domestic furniture companies have chosen to use imported materials in their manufacturing. My best guess is that most large American furniture companies carry different lines of products to compete in the industry. The lower end product lines are made with imported materials and their high end lines would be all American made.
Cabinet and furniture making begins with raw materials. Next time your in Home Depot, Lowes, or Menards, look at the sheets of hardwood plywood in the racks. The Chinese hardwood plywood will be warped and twisted. They use inner-ply veneers that are not dried and conditioned properly and add massive amounts of formaldehyde to the glue mixture to make the plys stick together. You can tell the difference between Chinese plywood and domestically produced plywood by the number of plies in the construction of the panel. Chinese plywood will have 13 to 15 inner plys of veneer in a standard 3/4" panel vs. 7 plys for a domestically manufactured panel.
Recently, the California Air Resource Board (CARB) has adopted laws to stop the sale of high emission formaldehyde panel products coming into the United States. We are hopeful that these laws will protect the consumer against potentially harmfull products in our industry.
This is sad. Woodcraft in St. Cloud, MN a large cabinet maker, has laid off many employees in the past 90 days. This economy just might be the last nail in the coffin for many of our domestic cabinet and furniture companies. I know we have been laying off people in our sawmill and veneer mill for the past year. 40 folks last week.....
Sorry, I did not mean to hi-jack this thread!
I would talk to TIM on here if you have any furniture questions. He owns a pretty good sized furniture store in Post Falls, Idaho.
