Can You Save Money In N.C.?
Hey Leonard,
I’ve heard that NC is now collecting the sales tax! So the old advantages are being whittled away! Couple this with everystore USA now being a “discounter” and you have NC as perhaps only a spot for BarBQ! Boyles sent me their catalog and my gut feeling was their pricing was about the same as what I can get in Philadelphia. Based on what you are telling me and what I have found anecdotally, I think that rules out shopping NC for me. If its too good to be true…ahh you know the rest!Is getting the best price on a piece of furniture as easy as taking 1/2 (based on a 2x markup) of the listed pricing and adding something fair in for the sales reps commission? You can buy a car that way, now- a- days with all the invoices available!
Hope all is well.
Ron
My long term contention and I believe it more than ever that the worse way to shop is to shop “discounts” only. If a shopper has no knowledge of the product that they are wanting to buy and has no appreciation of what makes the project good or bad then they are not going to spend their money well. Now if you know what makes Furniture A better than Furniture B then go for it. Keep in mind that
the NC scene is not the deal it use to be.
With every local store discounting everyday of the week the difference between NC and PA has really shrunk. After saying that if you know your stuff and can take a few days to poke around in the Outlets “Outlets” (where they keep the one of kind stuff, the returns, the “damaged”, etc.) then you can make some incredible deals. Of course you “save” the tax also unless you are such a square shooter that you would turn yourself in to the authorizes. Bottom-line: Shopping NC is certainly work the trip and the better you are the better it will be. Plus, if nothing else, the Pork Bar-B-Q in the region is fabulous.
Len