I don't understand why it takes 6 weeks to get a dresser from West Elm

Cue avalanche of posts telling you to go to thrift stores or Marketplace to find authentic midcentury modern furniture made of actual wood.

We are not your friends, you boring cunt.

I condole you, OP.

And it's also overpriced

The wicked witch of the west elm must rub newt musk on it

The elves who make it are backed up on their orders.

Customs duties in shipping to you in East Elm.

6 weeks actually seems kinda quick, OP.

Most of today's big furniture retailers don't start making larger items until after you order them. We waited almost 4 months last year for a chair that is still in their showroom. And these are all foreign made, so there's other issues (shipping, customs, supply chain) that can also come into play.

West Elm in particular seems to have lots of issues. Lots of complaints on Reddit about how long/delayed something was in an order.

Sitting here waiting for Crate and Barrel to send a few drawer pulls we ordered months ago. Same deal with them.

Slow boat from China?

R3 Isn’t wood a staple of your diet you lazy cunt?

OP: The children in China are not working fast enough.

[QUOTE]We are not your friends, you boring cunt.

But, you're all I had left.

if you can't understand...you are too stupid to live.

Ordering furniture has always, always, always been slow when ordering in America. Mainly because we don't make it here any more. 6 weeks is normal for that kind of low end crap. Try ordering some really high-end stuff from Europe, its double or tipple the time it takes to get here. We are talking months. Sounds to me like you are too used to ordering your stuff from Ikea.

You "I only buy furniture from Europe" queens are almost as bad as the "I only make everything fresh and homemade" queens.

Not always always always R14 but for sure in the last 20 to 30 years, since so much of what we used to make is now made overseas, as you said.

R15, it's not about being a Euro snob, America literally has almost no furniture design industry anymore. It collapsed about 30 years ago when everything was being made so cheap in Asia and every retail store in the US started filling their showrooms with that cheap crap.

What did you buy

this thread is useless without pics

But is it a rescue dresser?

Does the dresser have it's own fan page? Some actually do.

I ordered a made in America couch from Ethan Allen and it took five months.

R18, St. Olaf?

What's a dresser?

Probably shipping from China. Shipping delays through the Red Sea. Some Houthi warlord might be using your dresser to decorate his tent right now, OP.

I looked at Ethan Allen, but their lead times were even more insane.

Ethan Allen

Tell me you're ancient, without telling me you're ancient, Gramps. Precious Moments goes well with Ethan Allen.

R27 = dialing in from 1989

Also there must be some sort of cleaner or polish to use on that West Elm wood finish furniture. Just wiping it off, as they instruct, can't be enough over time.