@ Wendz, upo ama umelala?


1. i agree with @MaichBlack, for good leather seats you need at least 300k.

2. Forget about Nakumatt - what they sell is fake/synthetic. Ask me, i have been a victim.

3. If you get a good fundi, then my advice is that you buy genuine leather and let him do the rest. Good night

I bet you have never heard "Fundi mzuri tu ni Kinyozi". For a barber, he shaves you, you pay and go your way. I guess the same applies to hair stylists/saloonists.


There is even no comparison here. This is a business-to-business deal. For one, most businesses pay the supplier or manufacturer after delivery. This forces the supplier/manufacture to behave. Secondly, in B2B deals, agreements have to be signed with very specific [and punitive] penalties for anyone who does not follow the agreement to the letter. And in any case, Nakumatt doesn't buy their furniture from individual carpenters. They buy from companies [which employ carpenters].

I suggest you try supplying anything to any major supermarket and then report back here.

Trust me, that makes two victims.... i did the same blunder way back when i was buying my first seat..... Went to this fundi, chose the material, put the deposit and agreed when i will collect... Knowing fundis, i went two days earlier to just make sure that things are going just fine... he was almost finishing up and i was pretty impressed! And of course, happily paid up the deposit so that when i come, its taking and schuuuuup! gone! no hassles...

When the day to collect came, the dude was not there, the seats were not there..... i enquired, i was told oooh, oooh! oooh, oooh! I told the workers to tell him to go collect the seat and i would be coming back right the next day to pick my seats.. The next day, i kept my promised and showed up. Was the guy there? you guessed right. Where the seats there? no trophy for that one either! do i have a hired car for the second day? mmmmmh! And true, was headed to both mathare and ....eeeh... almost kamiti! i threw one hell of a tantrum.... and I took the next ready sofa - the colors, design, the finish ooooiii mwathani.... you'd have thought it was made for a Halloween witch!

@mjuaji wa stock....

Maichblack has a point.... Hii mambo ya fundi........ needs the strong in heart, body and spirit.....

@vinii

Yeah, yesterday i passed Nakumatt and true the "leather" seat that i found there was going for 250k.... There was one for 160 or 180k there that wasnt soo bad but didnt look like real leather though... I was almost thinking may be i have lost my sense of cognizance of the leather quality... How did yours fair?

@vinii

Pole.... i feel you... thats not an amount you want to spend for something that will last that short a time. i tend to agree with you... the quality of these supermarket items are very useless... i mentioned to my colleague about the search of some furniture and the first thing he said, do no go anywhere near nakumatt.... apparently, he bought a dining table with 6 seats.... the son moves 1, 2, and by the third whirl in the dining room, a chair's "leg" is broken..... I mean, what quality is that... he was telling me that they no longer use the dining table coz only two seats are intact.... and thats less than three years too.... The fall kidogo like this and a leg is gone!!

@all
I think in this country we are just ripped off... the guys who supply us with things supply substandard items and ridiculously high prices... Not worth it! For 250k, one should be able to get top notch kind of furniture..... lakini wapi?

@Wendz

You can also check out Furnitureland, their leather seats appear to be superior...but then you have to triple your budget..