Your browser is not supported on this site, please click here to update.A Melbourne man has posted an advertisement for a haunted chair on eBay. Andre Williams from Croydon in Melbourne picked up the wicker chair from hard rubbish two years ago and is hoping to sell it for $666.In the eBay advertisement, he describes the chair as a 'Vintage 1900s cane chair haunted by [a] poltergeist'. A chair that is 'haunted by a poltergeist' has been advertised for sale on eBay by a Melbourne seller 'After a week of having it in the house, I heard some crying during the night (I thought I was dreaming),' he writes in the item description. 'Then in the morning I noticed that the chair was on its side. I didn't connect the dots until it happened several times over two years. 'Sometimes there is laughing accompanied by tapping noises… the chair is always in a different spot afterwards (moves up to three metres) leaving shallow dent marks across the floor.'The advertisement also said the chair had 'severe scratch marks' on the arms 'like someone has been aggressively dragging their fingernails'.
Mr Williams wrote that some repair work had been done on the piece, but it was not fully restored because he was 'too afraid to touch the chair'. The seller wrote on the item description that he frequently found the chair on its side after hearing crying and tapping Bidding for the chair starts at $25 and the buy-it-now price is $666 'I would be glad to get rid of it and pass it on to someone who has had experience with this kind of thing. The opening bid for the chair is set at $25, though a keen purchaser can buy it now for $666.As yet there have been no bids placed on the item, but 16 people are watching it and the advertisement gets more than 100 views a day.Mr Williams, who is an artist, told Daily Mail Australia that the advertisement 'was meant to be a bit of theatre’.'People get so caught up in [supernatural things] that they want to make it true, they believe what they want to believe. It was a bit of experiment in human behaviour and human psychology,’ he said.
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Contact UsOffice Furniture SpecialsClick Here to Get the Buyer’s Guide: Furniture About to purchase furniture, or other home products, from suppliers in China? Keep reading, and learn what you must know about finding the right furniture suppliers, relevant trade shows and customization options. We also explain what furniture importers must know about fire retardancy regulations, quality control and shipping. When sourcing Furniture manufacturers online, there’s a variety of factors to use when assessing potential candidate suppliers. Below follows a few examples: Registered Capital: A low registered capital may indicate that the supplier is a small trading company. As there are no real benefits of buying from a trader, you want to avoid that. A Furniture manufacturer should have at least RMB 1,000,000 in registered capital, which is specified in their business license. Business Scope: Possibly even more telling than the Registered Capital, the Business scope explains what the company was set out to do.
Look for “furniture” and “manufacturing”, or “production”, to assess if the supplier is a true manufacturer. Traders, on the other hand, tend to have business scopes, including a wide range of very different products, and include terms such as “Wholesale”. Quality Management System: A Quality Management System, for example, ISO 9001, is implemented to track and prevent quality issues. Why does this matter? Because it only applies to manufacturers, not traders. When buying furniture from Chinese suppliers, why is it important to first filter suppliers? Because the majority of Furniture manufacturers are not geared towards developed markets, offering the quality options and stability you need to compete. If you don’t feel like browsing supplier listing online, you may want to consider visiting a Home products trade show in Mainland China or Hong Kong. Below follows a summary of relevant, annual, trade fairs in the Furniture and home products industry: What differs a retailer, or even wholesaler, from an OEM manufacturer?
When you buy a product from a retailer, take Ikea for example, you know that their products are made according to the very same specification sheet. There is no variation in terms of materials, design, dimensions and functions. Yet, many importers of home products, including furniture, make the assumption that this is how OEM manufacturers in China, also operates. OEM manufacturers operate according to a ‘make to order’ principle. While they may have “catalog products”, these are mere references, at best. What this means for you, is that you must provide the supplier with a spec sheet – even if the product is based on a factory design. There is no uniform Furniture spec sheet template that can be used. However, below follows a few examples of what you must include in your specification sheet: In many markets, there are mandatory Fire Retardancy Regulations, applicable to various types of furniture. In the United States, there’s no federal framework to which American importers must comply.
However, California Technical Bulletin 117 (TB117) has become ‘de facto’ mandatory, as it is asked for by both retailers and customers. However, In the European Union, there are mandatory Fire safety standards, to which buyers are forced to comply. Below follows an overview: Keep in mind that you must communicate to the supplier, to which standards your product must be complied with. A few years ago, I remember how we performed a quality inspection on upholstered furniture in Hangzhou. As we started testing the fire retardancy of the cover fabric, it turned out that the goods were in no way going to pass a third party audit. However, the present sales manager, quickly brushed off any responsibility. Instantly, he underlined that they are indeed capable of ensuring compliance with all European and American substance and fire retardancy standard, but that this customer did not communicate that their product had to be compliant with a certain standard. Hence, the procurement officers, working in the factory, did not make this specific request to their subcontractor for cover fabrics… and indeed, they didn’t ask either, so the result was a batch of a non-compliant goods.
As such, you must first assess which regulations apply to home products in your market, and then communicate this requirement to your manufacturer. To ensure that your supplier is not shipping substandard or damaged goods, which is perfectly possible, you must hire a quality inspector to check up on the goods. There are several companies offering quality control services, already in China. However, you need to communicate what they should look for. Below follows explanations of two of critical checkpoints, when importing furniture from China: Visual Inspection: Check for potential damages, or usage of incorrect materials and components. Fire retardancy testing: While most compliance tests can only be carried out in a laboratory, fire retardancy of fabrics can be checked just as well with a lighter and a stopwatch. Furniture is heavy, and can easily break under the weight of stacked units. Many manufacturers understand this, while others routinely fail to apply common sense when packing furniture.