New Sofa Delivered Damaged
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Not sure where too post this so I’ll try here.
I bought a new sofa last December, cost me just short of £3k, & recently discovered that some of the legs are broken.
Contacted the sellers, a well known furniture chain, who initially refused to do anything saying that because we had signed for sofa we had accepted it no matter what fault might be found so they refused to do anything.
Now the sofa is big & heavy & as far we knew it was ok on delivery - we only discovered the damage when we tried to move the sofa, discovered that the sliders didn’t work & ended up with a big fk off gouge in our wooden floor.
I responded asking if I was meant to inspect every leg when the sofa was delivered? The response was, simply, yes.
Anyway after much argument over the phone they Reluctantly agreed to send out a service engineer who subsequently discovered that four of the legs were either snapped, cracked or broken.
He was not impressed & emailed the supplier saying that in his view the sofa was of unmerchantable quality & should be replaced.
The response?
An envelope arrived today containing four replacement legs & sliders.
No apology, no offer of an engineer coming back to fit them. Just new legs.
So I called them up this afternoon asking when I would be receiving a visit I from the engineer to install the new legs.
I was told that it would not happen & that it was up to me to fit them!!!!
So my question is this - should the retailer fit them or should I just suck it up & do it myself?
I feel that spending £3k on sofa should give me some form of satisfactory outcome & I am not inclined to accept being fobbed off like this.
Would be interested in some feedback & advice as to what to do next - I am considering Trading Standards but not sure how my complaint would be viewed by them.
I bought a new sofa last December, cost me just short of £3k, & recently discovered that some of the legs are broken.
Contacted the sellers, a well known furniture chain, who initially refused to do anything saying that because we had signed for sofa we had accepted it no matter what fault might be found so they refused to do anything.
Now the sofa is big & heavy & as far we knew it was ok on delivery - we only discovered the damage when we tried to move the sofa, discovered that the sliders didn’t work & ended up with a big fk off gouge in our wooden floor.
I responded asking if I was meant to inspect every leg when the sofa was delivered? The response was, simply, yes.
Anyway after much argument over the phone they Reluctantly agreed to send out a service engineer who subsequently discovered that four of the legs were either snapped, cracked or broken.
He was not impressed & emailed the supplier saying that in his view the sofa was of unmerchantable quality & should be replaced.
The response?
An envelope arrived today containing four replacement legs & sliders.
No apology, no offer of an engineer coming back to fit them. Just new legs.
So I called them up this afternoon asking when I would be receiving a visit I from the engineer to install the new legs.
I was told that it would not happen & that it was up to me to fit them!!!!
So my question is this - should the retailer fit them or should I just suck it up & do it myself?
I feel that spending £3k on sofa should give me some form of satisfactory outcome & I am not inclined to accept being fobbed off like this.
Would be interested in some feedback & advice as to what to do next - I am considering Trading Standards but not sure how my complaint would be viewed by them.
What I would do personally is fit the replacement legs. Just prop it up off the ground each end (one end at a time).
Place a few books or something underneath to allow you to unscrew them and then refit.
I'd be annoyed but would just forget about it soon.
You mention £3k which is a lot of money but it's surprising how poor sofas can be at that price.
Place a few books or something underneath to allow you to unscrew them and then refit.
I'd be annoyed but would just forget about it soon.
You mention £3k which is a lot of money but it's surprising how poor sofas can be at that price.
I'd get it uplifted, I put up with a faulty multiyork sofa and had their guy come round and fit the right feet etc but it's a heap of crap and I wish I'd got rid of it while I had the chance.
I'm not sure of the legal position, but if the law is on your side get rid. If it's on theirs, well that's probably that.
I'm not sure of the legal position, but if the law is on your side get rid. If it's on theirs, well that's probably that.
Thales said:
2 GKC said:
How can a leg of a sofa be snapped or broken without you noticing? Wouldn’t it be a touch on the pish?
This. Sounds to me like the legs were broken when the sofa was moved.It’s a big 5 piece interlocking unit. The legs were fitted into sliders to ease moving the sofa - hence you should be able to move it around easily on the sliders.
As soon as we started to slide the sofa it collapsed due to the legs snapping off.
The engineer said he thought that the legs had been damaged in transit & that moving the sofa simply snapped the legs.
I wasn’t allowed to see that report, i have asked for a copy, however the engineer said that he thought the sofa needed to be replaced.
kiethton said:
Do you have a copy of the report mentioned?
How did you pay?
If yes and a credit card the cc company will likely reverse the transaction. That’ll prompt the shop to either replace the sofa, fix it (if you’d prefer that) or take it back.
Interest free credit (I could have bought it outright but decided to shove it on finance).How did you pay?
If yes and a credit card the cc company will likely reverse the transaction. That’ll prompt the shop to either replace the sofa, fix it (if you’d prefer that) or take it back.
I have been in contact with the finance company. Currently waiting for them to get back to me on Monday.
kiethton said:
If yes and a credit card the cc company will likely reverse the transaction. That’ll prompt the shop to either replace the sofa, fix it (if you’d prefer that) or take it back.
Your going to say you’ve done this loads of times but credit card issuers are extremely reluctant to do it and even if they do, might still put the charge back on again if the retailer puts up a defence.Sheepshanks said:
kiethton said:
If yes and a credit card the cc company will likely reverse the transaction. That’ll prompt the shop to either replace the sofa, fix it (if you’d prefer that) or take it back.
Your going to say you’ve done this loads of times but credit card issuers are extremely reluctant to do it and even if they do, might still put the charge back on again if the retailer puts up a defence.Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff