Brawn needed!

I thought the person wanted it on the fourth floor of their home, as opposed to the first floor of their home, as opposed to their home is on the fourth floor.

Evette-N-CH wrote: I thought the person wanted it on the fourth floor of their home, as opposed to the first floor of their home, as opposed to their home is on the fourth floor.

If they can do it for one, they can do it for the other. I used the 4th floor apartment as an unambiguous example of why they should be able to take it to the 4th floor when you're paying for home delivery. I agree that if they asked if there were stairs that the furniture needed to be carried up, and booklaw said "it's a private house, not an apartment" then that would be a different story.

Evette-N-CH wrote: Hmm. I've yet to run into a freight company that would deliver to a 4th floor whether it is a home or apartment, or even offered that service. Freight shipments are typically dock to dock. Which means curbside, basically, when not delivering to a business. But I would love to know what freight companies people are using that offer full delivery to their door, and at what cost. It would certainly be useful.

I'm talking about furniture shipping (the kind where you have to schedule it and stay home for the delivery, like from ABC, Crate and Barrel or Room & Board for example). If you're talking about shipping something in a cargo container from Indonesia or something, or buying something from eBay and getting it UPS, then I wouldn't expect them to carry it up the stairs. I admit that I haven't lived in a walk-up since I've been able to afford non-second-hand furniture, but it just didn't even occur to me that you would order something from a furniture store, pay for home delivery, and they wouldn't put it exactly where you want it, especially if it was a very heavy item. However, I also have never payed as little as $32 for furniture delivery either. Booklaw, where was the delivery from?

eggcream wrote: Why, it's not their fault. A piece of furniture that size should have been discussed before being purchased. You can't assume someone is going to lug that thing up 4 flights of stairs with no problem. Every time we've had large pieces of furniture delivered either the store asks us what floor we're on or we mention it. Some places have a cut off, usually 3 floors. If we need it for our 4th floor we'll tip them extra. Also, some places have curb side delivery only noted.

Of course you're going to tip someone nicely after they lug something up 4 flights of stairs. That has nothing to do with it. And if they specify curbside delivery or a cutoff for flights of stairs, of course you can't expect them to go counter to their policy. But if they don't, then it's a totally reasonable expectation.

okay, get fish netting, a lot of fish netting. next get a few thousand balloons and a few canisters of helium.

tie the netting to the file cabinet and start filling balloons.

Flexi's TV may be the most blogged about purchased in recent memory.

just sayin'

Flexichick wrote: [quote=whynot_31]Flexi's TV may be the most blogged about purchased in recent memory.

just sayin'

you know you wanna see it :-)

giant tease....