We're in the market for furniture. An Aeron chair and a sectional sofa, to be precise. Hence our addiction to Craigslist. Which triggers some interesting experiences:
We bought an Aeron chair last weekend from a New Yorker who hated L.A. and was going back East. Turns out he screwed us: the supposedly one-year old chair was actually more than ten years old. We put it back on Craigs, stressing its age and wear, and sold it within a couple of hours at no loss.Welcome to L.A.: the land of comers and goers, where everything is up for grabs if you bother to look around and fork out the cash.
As for the sofa, we hooked up with a guy who advertises on Craigslist at unbeatable prices. No wonder: his "showroom" is in a Public Storage unit in Culver City, and he only takes cash. Shady shady hush hush, but he'll design/copy any sofa style you want, and you only pay upon delivery.
