[stomachmonkey]

My wife never pays retail.

Last house we furnished we used a broker in NC.

My wife went shopping local in NY, found stuff she liked, figured out who the manufacturer was and the model, sent it to the broker and a couple of weeks later the exact stuff would show up and we paid on average 50% of retail including the brokers cut and shipping.

You can save $"s yourself if you are willing to do some work.

Half the fun of it was trying to get the man/model info. Turned furniture shopping into a "mission".