Common Carpet Questions
Special Report: Buying Carpet From Home Improvement Stores
Q. So how would you know if you were getting a good deal on your carpet or other flooring?
A. You wouldn't. There is no carpet blue book. There are no consumer advocate flooring magazines that I am aware of. This website offers the best and most complete information to help consumers obtain a square deal on carpet.
Until now, all carpet buying consumers could hope to do was to shop around from one store to another to hopefully find another similar or identical products to be able to compare prices. It is very time consuming and not easy to compare by any means.
Q. What about the great offers of Free Padding or Free Installation with my carpet purchase?
A. Its easy to fall for those "FREE" gimmicks! It is very common for retailers to "hide" those FREE items in the price you pay for the carpet. Make no mistake, they know if they can lure you into their store, then they'll have a good chance to convince you to buy carpet from them...Beware, you can spend hundreds more than you need to.... You can get a good deal on carpet but you need to get informed!
Q. What about the banner hanging outside the carpet store that says, "Wholesale to the public?" or Factory direct prices? Is this really true?
A. No, their statements are just a play on words. Carpet retailers are middlemen, they have a brick and mortar store to operate and employees to pay. All these signs, banners and other gimmicks are used to lure you into their store. Once you go inside, they will use every trick in the book to get you to select one of their products and buy from them. Beware, you can save hundreds by avoiding these type of retailers.
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The truth is, there really is no free lunch! Anything offered to you for free will be charged to you one way or another, or else the free item is not worth having.
Often, a retail flooring salesperson will ask you to feel how soft the carpet is with your hand. dig your fingers into the pile. Feel how thick and luxurious it is? Perhaps they will have you walk on a swatch of carpet with a square piece of pad underneath it to show you how good it feels underfoot.
These common sales techniques are just like the test drive at the car dealership. If they can get you to imagine in your mind how great the carpet would look and feel in your home then they know you will buy it. You need to check out some carpet samples and take them home for a few days! This will give you the opportunity to consider and compare!
How a carpet feels and looks when it is new has absolutely no bearing on whether or not it is a quality product, if it will last, if it will clean easily, and especially if it is the right carpet for you! This is exactly why I wrote my carpet buying secrets book.
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Be very cautious,
Do your homework, and learn about carpet fibers.
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Don't fall for sales gimmicks and don't buy under sales pressure!
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Don't be pressured into buying right now, take some samples home for a few days!
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Take flooring samples home and take your time making your selection.
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Tell them you want to take some carpet samples home and then take those samples to other carpet stores to compare prices with similar products.
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Order my book and save yourself the headaches and save money too!!
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