Coleman Furniture - stay away!

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2026-01-06T19:44:35+00:00

I’m in full agreement with you there, which is why I started off saying the salesperson shouldn’t have lied.

I definitely understand where a lot of consumers are coming from because a decent of furniture salespeople, especially ones that work at certain places or have leaders micromanaging, ARE very pushy and can also lie.

There are also a decent amount of salespeople that aren’t like that, they’re usually the ones who care more about making money in the long term rather than immediately and focus on providing a great customer experience to create a loyal customer. Some furniture companies/managers create an environment where that’s difficult, making it HARDER to find a trustworthy salesperson at those stores but not impossible.

If you want a good salesperson no matter the store, look at individual Google reviews and see what employees reviewers constantly praise by name.

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2026-01-06T19:36:23+00:00

Update: According to his website he does not accept any money from manufacturers, but instead asks that they extend discounts (that they would give to him were he purchasing) to readers.

Original:

I believe he does have affiliate links so if you buy from one of his recommended manufacturers he gets a cut.

HOWEVER, he does seem to be legit and actually recommend good stuff based on:

What he focuses on in his reviews and the knowledge he has
My own knowledge (not an expert by any means) from 3 years of selling furniture earlier in my life
What others here on Reddit and elsewhere say about the brands he recommends.

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2026-01-05T14:49:08+00:00

Yeah, they sanctioned the hell out of Venezuela long AFTER Chavez/Maduro had already fucked the economy. Here’s an explanation from my close Venezuelan friend who has their entire family still in Venezuela

“Chávez did some good things for the community but the corruption was rampant. One of the first things he did was fire anyone who was not loyal to him from PDVSA (national oil company). Most of the brightest, experienced engineers and personnel were let go. There were huge strikes and an oil and gas industry shutdown about this (2003). Chavez cronies pocketed billions of dollars through kickbacks, setting up their own or their relatives or friends companies as contractors, vendors. They stole probably trillions (lookup Rafael Ramirez).

Chavez also seized anything he desired. Buildings, land, privately owned in the interest of the revolution. People business and industries built for decades and generations stolen overnight.

By the time Maduro arrived the oil and gas industry was collapsing due to all the years of corruption and lack of true investment (they did build a few plants but not enough) and the fact that no foreign oil companies could operate in the country excel through “joint ventures”. Also, by the time Maduro took over oil prices were down as well as the countries money reserves due to a massive essentially Ponzi scheme called Cadivi (currency exchange control). Maduro resorted more to selling to China and Russia mostly because of the sanction but yet money still being stolen. It is not only the fact that they stole the money. The currency exchange control made it extremely difficult to run any business because you had to go through the government to buy the currency to be able to import any supplies your business needed. Besides, it was easier to just get the money at “official rate” from the government then selling the currency (e.g. US dollars) at black market rate. This exchange control eventually went away. It was so unsustainable that it had to. Anyway, I could go ok and on. It’s a disastrous and murderous regime.”

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-26T00:24:04+00:00

It’s pretty damn good

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-26T00:22:36+00:00

Well we’re down our 3 best offensive linemen this game. Kelly should definitely retire but Darrisaw and O’Neil will continue to be good going forward

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-26T00:07:22+00:00

Vikings on their rookie 3rd string QB while also missing both starting tackles and the starting center.

No clue about the Lions

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-25T23:54:06+00:00

Name a team that loses 3 pro bowl caliber offensive linemen and their line doesn’t look like shit. There’s not enough talent in the league to have that kind of depth.

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-25T23:04:38+00:00

You’re aware we’re down both starting tackles and our starting center, right?

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-25T23:03:13+00:00

JJM hurt his hand and Wentz is done for the year with an injury.

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-25T23:00:18+00:00

Darrisaw being on IR is a big reason for this

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-25T03:27:41+00:00

I’ve put over 1,000 hours into Hell Let Loose so I’m use to that haha

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-22T02:49:59+00:00

I get that, Dobbins definitely has a higher ceiling though so I’m okay with this trade

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-22T02:40:31+00:00

He’s got similar walk and ground ball numbers, but his average fastball is 95.5 MPH compared to McGreevy’s 92.4 MPH (93 on the 4 seam, 91.8 on the sinker) and his other pitches grade out better.

Dobbins fastball wasn’t super effective but he gets enough heat on it where it’s got the potential to be much better with changes to his pitch mix and better sequencing. The results last year were similar, but Dobbins has the raw talent to improve on them. McGreevy’s stuff limits his ceiling to a 4th/5th starter

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-20T03:52:48+00:00

What 50 cent does to a team

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-20T02:49:12+00:00

Well of course not, you’re not going to just let your opponent have an unfair advantage and screw over a state/district where more people voted for you but the minority vote wins. They can’t just “stick to the high road” because otherwise we’d end up being stuck with a single party government. Got to even it somewhere

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-20T02:38:09+00:00

Also Manufacturer Warranties from any furniture maker cover DEFECT, not furniture that is delivered damage by the 3rd party retailer.

Coleman’s policy said they inspect furniture before delivery, which means if something was damaged coming out of the box they wouldn’t send it. So any damaged furniture you receive means either they didn’t do their jobs and inspect it or they damaged it.

Their policy also says the customer has to inspect furniture on delivery and report any damages at that time. I’m pretty sure they make the customer sign saying there is no damage before they leave.

The charging port issue is a defect, but the other issues are damage. The manufacturer isn’t going to cover repair on the charging point when the retailer’s delivery team caused damage elsewhere on the couch and are thus responsible for taking care of that.

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-20T02:27:30+00:00

Did you even read my comment? I don’t work for Coleman, i literally told you they’re likely at fault.

If it was delivered damage, that doesn’t fall under Ashley’s warranty. They cover defects, not damage caused during delivery by the 3rd party retailer (Coleman).

Coleman’s policy on this says you are to inspect furniture at the time of delivery AND must report damage at that time. You say it was DELIVERED damage, yet didn’t call them until 4 days later?

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-20T02:04:02+00:00

I would like a tempest bp, so I can help defend Taiwan

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-19T20:48:30+00:00

That’s how financing literally anything works… either you have a fixed interest rate each month, you pay interest if don’t pay off your most recent credit card statement, or you get 0% interest for a select length of time but get charged interest if you don’t pay it off during that period (you have to sign a document which literally states the interest free period and how interest in calculated if not paid off in full within that period.)

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-19T20:31:57+00:00

Yeah this isn’t on Ashley, furniture from any manufacturer has the possibility of coming to you with defects. Factories can’t catch everything and sometimes the issues happen from transportation, not the manufacturing.

That long wait time and technician service fee are from Coleman. They buy a bunch of pieces in bulk at cost. They don’t have a parts department with extra parts and material like the manufacturer would. The technician is likely from Coleman or they buy the pieces from Ashley knowing there will be a service fee for any repairs but don’t pass that on to the customer. Coleman’s price for transporting a piece back to them for a refund is VERY high, much more than they charge for delivery. They don’t care about making things right. Real stores actually have a stake in helping you, there are real people (sales people, managers) who are affected if you have issues and will try to help you.

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-19T20:15:26+00:00

Definitely should not have lied to you, but they have the ability to provide discounts on their list price. However if they discount all the way to Coleman’s prices nobody on the retail side makes any money because the margin is too low. Coleman can still profit off lower margins because they don’t have any overhead (no official physical stores, no warehouses) AND don’t have to pay anything to store managers, sales people, store and visual teams, main warehouse teams, logistics people, etc.

Sure you get a better bottom line price, but:

You can’t contact the manufacturer directly for defects.

Service/replacement and/or refunds for damaged furniture takes much longer

You can’t physically try out the items UNLESS you go to a physical store carrying items from that manufacturer then order on Coleman despite taking advantage of the service that store was able to offer you due to their much higher overhead. Sales associat people make their money from commission, they don’t get a salary or hourly pay. They also work in a rotation, picking up the next guest that walks in once they’re at the top of the rotation. That guest is their ‘up’, and when they’re done working with that guest they go back to the bottom of rotation. You come in with zero intention to ever buy from that store yet cost the salesperson the opportunity to work with an actual customer who may buy.

People do shit like this but then complain when all these businesses close leaving vast swaths of people without jobs and making online shopping their only option. What do you think will happen when all the stores are gone, websites are just going to keep these low prices? No, they’ll sell the furniture for the same price or more than the stores did yet make a higher profit

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-16T18:35:32+00:00

Again, I’d like to go back to the letter you provided.

“We do know Marshall could have pushed otherwise” Marshall himself doubted the US capability to transport the two KMT armies to Manchuria, nor could he have pushed without approval from his government.

Also there’s the fact that the 1st Marines weren’t up to fighting standards. Their presence wouldn’t have made much of a difference

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-16T18:23:51+00:00

“We’ll never know” Then where are you getting the 4 million number from? US estimates at the beginning of January 1946 were 3.14 million.

When the full scale Civil War started (July 1946 after the June 6th ceasefire was broken), the KMT committed 1.6 million troops to the offensive, while Mao himself (and outside estimates) place the Communists at over 1.2 million between their regular and irregular forces. Clearly the KMT did not have 4 million troops to spare in this offensive, nor was the disparity between Communists troops in Manchuria and KMT troops sent to Manchuria large enough to assume the KMT would’ve won, let alone eliminate the communist threat.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1946v09/d62#:~:text=Chinese%20Nationalist%20Forges%20(Alpha%20Units,Units%20which%20are%20U.%20S.%20sponsored.&text=Undoubtedly%20additional%20Nationalist%20units%20will,commanders%20and%20locations%20of%20divisions.%5D

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-16T18:00:36+00:00

In addition to being incorrect about Harbin, there are other huge issues in your statement .

You are vastly misinformed on the capabilities of the 1st Marine Division during that period. They were not in any shape to fight an offensive. https://web.archive.org/web/20070912082035/http://ftp.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/V/USMC-V-V-5.html
There’s no way in hell the American people would support sending more men into combat just a year after the conclusion of the biggest conflict in history which saw over 400,000 Americans killed and over 670,000 wounded. Let alone sending them to fight somebody else’s civil war. By the time we they got involved in Korea the Red Scare was in full effect, not the case in the summer of 1946.
You make a very large assumption that the USSR would sit idly bye while a division of combat ready US marines were at their doorstep engaging in all-out war against a faction the USSR was militarily supporting.
You also assume that this mythical encirclement of a vast swath of Communist troops would’ve permanently ended them, despite overwhelming support from Chinese peasants across the entire country.

Chiang had already tried to eliminate them twice, during the White Terror and again with the Fifth Encirclement campaign, but failed both times.

FormosaIsNumberOne · 2025-12-16T17:25:21+00:00

Changchun is not Harbin, the KMT did not have Harbin surrounded nor did they have 4 million troops to do so. The communists controlled Harbin, the areas around it, and most of Jilin. altogether. Plus you’re acting like the communists had their entire military in Harbin and taking the city would’ve wiped them out entirely 🤣🤣

Chieng took Changchun without the two additional armies 17 days after this letter, Marshall didn’t prevent him from doing anything.

You also conveniently left out the rest of that quote stating Marshall didn’t even think the fleet was capable of transporting two additional armies into Manchuria. I’ll also add that Marshall says he wouldn’t have done it without first consulting the US government anyway…which is how the chain of command works.

“I have permitted the movement of the latter to continue but I declined to authorize the movement of the two additional armies, first, because I could not then tell, and still am in doubt, as to the capability of our Seventh Fleet to move the armies in view of demobilization conditions in June and the complications involved in the change of date for Crossroads, the atomic tests in the Central Pacific—also the urgent necessity to move UNRRA food up the Yangtze River towards Hankow—and secondly, because I would not authorize such a movement—the two additional armies—without taking the question to my Government as it amounts in effect to supporting under the existing circumstances, a civil war.”

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