We went there yesterday and their quality is still low and prices are still high. I knew that 2 months ago but I went back to see if they had lowered anything decent. The customer service (or lack of) was unreal. My dad sold furniture for 35 years and I know that sales jobs can be very frustrating but the sales person who met us at the door and followed us around ended up being the rudest person I have ever met! We were completely shocked. The is no way I would ever spend a dime in that store.
We went there two weeks ago...got "pounced on" by a salesperson the moment we stepped inside. I told her I was just browsing and she let me know they work on commission. Fine. Not a problem. However, every time I turned around, she ran up to ask if I'd found anything yet! The prices were OUTRAGEOUS...obviously they don't want to liquidate the inventory.
So I was in Goldsboro yesterday killing time and I stopped by the Ashley store there to see what the prices were like...You would honestly think they are trying to save the furniture bc the prices were not GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TYPE PRICES. They said no delivery offered and you had to take it home that day which was fine with me...I just stopped by to see if they had any good deals and they didn't.
I wonder if they are planning on changing their name to something else, rather than truly going out of business.
We got followed around as well a few weeks ago. My husband told her we were all set and that if she kept following us, she would follow us right out the door. It took all I had not to burst out laughing. :lol: We left shortly after because the prices were ridiculous.
When we were there a month or so ago, we found out that the people working in the stores are actually from the bank-brought in specifically for the sale. I actually spoke to a really nice woman in the Clayton store who was from the midwest. So these are not local people who really even have an interest in anything but making the sale for the bank.
I've always heard that it's against the law to have a GOOB sale and NOT go out of business. Just changing the name would not comply, but selling the inventory to an existing company that would operate in the sam facility would.
they are not going out of business. if you read the fine print at the bottom of their ad (on tv or paper) it says "not actually going out of business trying to reduce existing stock in order to consolidate inventory...." or something along those lines.
Those sales like that are just a scam. They jack the prices up so they can "reduce" them. I went in there once and that was enough for me, right after they opened. Crap furniture for way too much $$
We stopped in and were stalked throughout the store...if you look close, a lot of the furniture is not original inventory being liquidated, but 'filler' brought in to keep the store from looking sparse. No great deals, either... something's not right about it...
commercials I am tired of hearing that annoying guy on the bankruptcy commercials. Well now they have change. Apparently they are not in bankruptcy cause the commercial was for a mattress sale
This has to be the longest Going Out of Business Sale in history! It's like starting to plan my funeral the day I was born. Yeah, it's going to happen eventually, we're just getting ready and don't want to get caught by surprise.
Gone out of business? Out of curisoty checked into ashley furniture and chloe's furniture and seems both are owned by the same person. I crossed referenced DBA submissions at the register of deeds with Corporations filings at the Sec of states website, Talk about a scam, What are they avoiding having to pay, Taxes? For their personal belongings, Car? House? etc. All at our expense.
Seriously? You must have no life to get so involved in someones business like that. Mind your own or just keep the results to yourself next time.
As I understand it, the owners are the same people, and the bankruptcy was filed to get out from under the franchise agreement with Ashley.
and there are different kinds of bankruptcy....some liquidate assets to pay off other things and others liquidate everything. Guess that 'research' didn't come up.
No it didn't. All I see is that a business had a going out of business sale only to change its' name and stay in the same business.
a lot of businesses (seems like alot of furniture ones) will do the 'bankruptcy sale' without specify what 'chapter' they are filing. I do remember when this thread came out, in the fine print of their paper ad it did go into detail about what type of bankruptcy they were filing and it wasn't total liquidation, as I recall.
closing Heard a commercial that Chloe's in Raleigh and Clayton are closing. They didn't even mention that Goldsboro store. I guess that one is already closed. Chain wasn't even open a year
