How (not) to sell kitchens online

[girlyswot]

Step 1: Show a nice, large photo of the kitchen.
× MFI
Step 2: Organise your kitchens by kind and give these comprehensible names like 'Traditional' or 'Modern', not 'Uniquely Magnet'.
× Magnet
Step 3: Do not make absolutely everything on the page Flash dependent. This becomes very irritating very quickly.
× Magnet
Step 4: Do give some indication of the prices of your kitchens. No, you do not have to list every separate unit and its cost. But a price for a pictured kitchen would be a nice indicator.
× Moben

Grrrr. Does anyone happen to have any suggestions of good kitchen retailers with helpful websites? We don't absolutely have to do all of this online but, since I'm going to be in America for the next three weeks and then in Scotland from the end of August, it would really help.  Also, does anyone happen to have any ideas about how you find out the relative prices of different kitchens?  It seems to be a closely-guarded secret in which all kitchen retailers are colluding.

Comments

[ladywhizbee.livejournal.com]

Go to Ikea's website (www.Ikea.com). They have excellent kitchen cabinets, countertops, etc. and all the planning tools. You can download a kitchen planner and everything.

My husband and I completely remodeled the kitchen in the condo that we had when we were first married--it was perfect. The cabinets are really well-designed, and while some designs are very modern there are others that are more traditional as well, depending on what you want. Go look--you'll have a ton of fun checking out all the options. *grins*

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

Uniquely Magnet! LOL!

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

We got Moben in. The service was great (well, apart from the day the fitter went awol and a relentlessly chirpy woman with a Brummie accent kept ringing to ask me if I'd seen him) but they're expensive, and they won't tell you *how* expensive until they've already come round and designed it for you.

[rdprice29.livejournal.com]

ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY STAY AS FAR AWAY AS YOU CAN FROM HOME DEPOT'S KITCHEN INSTALLATION DEPT!!!!!!!

The accounting firm I used to work for audit's them, and I heard HORROR stories from one of the managers on the account at one training session I went to. I've talked to other who've used them, and they had the same bad experience. Problem number one, i think, is that they outsource the actual labor/installation, and not necessarily reputable/reliable ones.

I don't know if Lowe's does the same or if theirs is more reliable. I've only ever heard bad things about HD.

I know IKEA has cool kitchen stuff, and they say they do installation, but I have no idea how good their service is either. We ripped out stuff from the 70's and put in IKEA counters and such in the house we lived in before this one, and I really liked them and they seemed very durable, but my husband did the installation himself. So I don't know if they do a good job of installation or not, sorry.

I probably didn't help you much at all, sorry. But seriously, you will only regret going with HD, so please JUST SAY NO!!!

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