Eight years ago we bought an American leather sofa from a store in Austin Texas still love the sofa and is holding up well. We lived in Houston and the dealer in Houston was way to high so we identified what we wanted and contacted some other stores - got the best deal and they shipped the sofa to us from American leather in Dallas. We never went to the store in Austin and it was a great experience.

snorpagirl I am not familiar with the store you have mentioned but both of these companies produce a well tailored solid product. I don't think you could go wrong in either case.

Snorpgirl regarding your questions.

Reagarding pricing there are some restrictions on advertised pricing by manufacturer called MAP "minimum advertised pricing" but any retialer is free to sell a product for whatever price they would like due to restraint of trade regulations. Manufacturers will try to pressure retailers to hold prices and threaten to take away their franchise if their violate their pricing policies but in the end it's up to the retailer. My advice is shop around and do some negotiating.

I don't think either manufacturer will tell a retailer when to have a sale but some manufacturers will have discount periods such as 5% or 10% off in June etc. which a retailer can take advantage of.