<p>We always see those ads on TV for DirectBuy. We will be moving soon and will need to do some renovation/refurnishing. Does anyone have any experience using them?</p>
<p>I have heard bad bad bad things about them. They are a giant catalog with no inventory. Dont waste your money registering with them. Any place that pressures you to “join today or you will never be allowed to ever again” doesnt pass the smell test.</p>
<p>They have a local showroom here in my neck of the woods, but I never visited since I heard that their membership fee is $4-5K. One of my coworkers was very happy with HomeClick for his home remodel.</p>
<p>Hubby & I were members years ago, when the fee was only around $100 per year. Got some nice pieces of furniture and appliances, nothing big, but a colleague was building a log home and got most of the interior stuff (flooring, furniture, lighting) for a great discount though them. It is a shame if the membership fees have gotten that high…</p>
<p>I remember touring many years ago when the fees were maybe a few hundred dollars? However, the “pay now or go away” pressure tactic really turned me off. Read this [With</a> DirectBuy, it will cost you a lot to save: Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog](<a href=“http://blogs.consumerreports.org/home/2007/09/with-directbu-1.html]With”>http://blogs.consumerreports.org/home/2007/09/with-directbu-1.html)</p>
<p>I called last year and they wouldn’t mail me tickets to tour the nearby showroom because my husband would be out of town and I was going alone!! Talk about the 1950’s. I hung up on the jerk.</p>
<p>^ I was interested in getting some very very basic information before bothering to get the tour and such. I could get nothing out of them but some memorized lines of nonsense they could not defend. </p>
<p>I don’t do business with manipulative companies.</p>
<p>Bad, bad, bad idea. Lots of bad press, and in today’s world of the Internet and bare bones pricing (even retail), it’s not worth it.</p>
<p>If you do a search for “direct buy consumer complaints” you’ll get a lot of interesting info-all bad.</p>
<p>Dke, the reason they do that is because they keep the 2 of you busy with a long presentation, and then turn on the serious pressure to get you to commit to the membership, which costs around 5K. They don’t want spouses to come alone, because then you might try to resist the sales pitch by saying you wanted to talk it over with your spouse. Their tactics are heinous.</p>