Cheap Furniture --- It Really Isn't --- just Misleading Offers
In addition to a specific product, I was attracted to the site with their assurance of "Free Delivery Anywhere in the UK" --- at least until checkout time when the sum of £10.32 for delivery appeared in the summary.
Having pointed out this misrepresentation to the Supplier, they advised that - "We did have different wording initially, but it was a bit long-winded, and people seemed to ignore it anyway." ---- How can - "Free Delivery anywhere in the UK" - be worded differently?
They continued by blaming Covid for substantial rises in delivery costs which, previously, they would have absorbed. In my experience, Covid has not greatly affected delivery costs in the UK.
A further claim was made by the Supplier to the effect they were unable to discount the delivery costs to me as they "wouldn't make that much profit on the product."
Cheap Furniture has the product listed at £46.64.
Adding their delivery charge brought this to £56.96.
Bearing in mind that Cheap Furniture "Wouldn't make enough --- to discount the delivery", an alternative Supplier has since supplied the IDENTICAL product, at a price of £36.99 and with GENUINE "Free Delivery" --- something Cheap Furniture assured me was not possible.
Cheap Furniture, after admitting the site wording was misleading, did say they would be changing it. However, over a week later, there is no alteration, so their site remains misleading and unrepresentative of truth - I wonder why?
6 June 2021
Unprompted review