What a deal!

In this post, I expressed my excitement over the fact that we had FINALLY found the furniture that we want. The crib was on sale at jcpenney.com and I was waiting for the dresser to go on sale. I checked back everyday to check the prices. I went and checked today and found that the dresser is no longer available! WHAT?!? You couldn't even begin to understand my frustration at this point. This is the third line of furniture that I found that I really like that either I found out that I absolutely could NOT afford or that wasn't being made anymore. Life just can't be this difficult!!

Well, I went to JCPenney's store at my local mall (you know, because I just couldn't accept the fact that this dresser was no longer available without hearing from the lips of a teenaged girl who worked in the catalog dept. at Penney's) and found out, after an hour of confusion, that the manufacturer is no longer making that particular piece of furniture. No, it wasn't just backordered. Or out of stock. Or whatever other scenario you can come up with that would eventually get me the dresser. It simply wasn't being made anymore. Things like this don't settle well with an already irritated pregnant woman.

I looked through the baby catalog and found another set of furniture made by the same manufacturer that had the same color line. The only thing different about the dressers is the feet. One has flat platform-like feet and the other has curvy ones. The crib has both...flat platform-like feet and curvy lines. Woohoo!! Here is the dresser we're getting (as opposed to the one in the other post)...

I asked the associate if the finishes would match since they are from the same manufacturer. She said that she was not "allowed" to confirm that but she could tell me that 9 times out of 10 the finishes were the same if the manufacturer was the same...and if they didn't match, I could return everything to the store for a full refund. Yay! I ordered them both on the spot, plus the bedrails to convert the crib into a full size bed...because the sale ends tomorrow!

The cool thing is that the dresser ended up being $50.00 cheaper than expected, the crib was already on sale, and I could save 15% on the total purchase if I opened a Penney's credit card account. I normally pass on those kinds of deals, but 15% off of $600.00 is a good amount of money!! So, not only was everything already on sale, but I saved 15% additionally and had all of the oversized delivery charges waived because I ordered from the catalog department!! I ended up saving $205.00 after sale prices, 15% additionally and the waived delivery fees. Needless to say, I'm a happy person!!