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For a rant about poor quality products, the knock about delivery times of furniture is totally out of place. Five or ten years down the line, when the legs are
by roc 17y ago
For a rant about poor quality products, the knock about delivery times of furniture is totally out of place.
Five or ten years down the line, when the legs aren't falling off because you purchased a decent quality item, are you really going to care that it took two extra weeks to deliver? And how often are you even ordering furniture?
What an odd product category to use for that example.
- ShabbyDoo 17y agoAgree (although I accidentally down-modded you). There are many ways to measure quality, and timeliness of availability is certainly one. For a kid in a dorm room who just wants a particle board bookshelf, waiting two months would be absurd. However, I wanted some nice oak bookshelves for my office, and I wouldn't mind waiting a couple of months if they were otherwise what I desired.
- dan_the_welder 17y agoRight with you on the custom furniture thing. Most skilled crafts-people are booked for months ahead. The ones that I know don't want to scale because then they would not be making furniture, they would be running a business. Interestingly, a furniture 'startup' is frequently a vehicle for one person to make a living doing what they love. Often after years of working as a professional in another field making money for the family, building a nest egg, tooling up, honing their skills and trying to develop a reputation and market.
- rapind 17y agoI want it now. I want it cheap. It should also make toast. What do you mean quality will suffer!?
- dan_the_welder 17y agoThe I want it now crowd make me want to quit what I used to love doing. The fallout from the last decade has been, an inability to discern quality, often using price as the yardstick, and a voracious impatience. I make physical goods though, so your mileage may vary.
- rapind 17y agoVery much the same in software. Now and cheap. I don't really mind though. While certainly there are superstar hackers who can provide quality and still make a buck under those restrictions, the majority are delivering crap (I blame the consumer most of the time) that eventually reqires someone to rewrite it under more realistic constraints due to lost revenue and increasing maintenace costs. Sometimes anyways. Some people need to be beaten up by their bad decisions many times before the lesson really sticks. Maybe we'll enter an age of quality soon.