About COUCH

 

Hi Everyone,

Ameer here.  I own “couch”.  Since what is a store, especially in it’s infancy, but it’s proprietor, I guess you need to know about me.  I believe in deals.  I shop like CRAZY on Ebay for replacement heads for my Sonicare toothbrush.  I visited what seemed like every last store in Alderwood before buying my TV.  My friends are ALL telling me i’m not charging enough of a markup.  Standard for the big boys in the industry is 100% or more which makes me angry like $6 popcorn at Ironman.  So here’s my plan.  I’m going to keep the margins genuinely skinny- like scary skinny.  I’m going to rely on Craigslist and word of mouth for marketing.  I’m sharing space with the Orange Splot gallery and splitting rent to cut costs.  I’m doing my own deliveries.  I’m charging customers cost for having seating trucked up from California.  I’m not charging a “design surcharge” if a customer wants to have a piece made to custom dimensions.  And I’m going to be known as the place to go in Seattle for stylish, custom, earth friendly seating at prices that are genuine deals.  After all, I believe in deals.

 

 

Thanks to all the folks who came through for me in a pinch.  Thanks to Eric for using his ninja graphic design skills to make a store logo that looks like a million in exchange for a chicken beef combo from Yak’s Teriyaki.    Thanks to Kris for hanging up the signage even when I couldn’t be there to help him.  Thanks to my mom and Scott for helping me finance this.  Thanks to Caiti for giving me the idea– and giving me a couch to stay on while I was meeting in LA with my supplier. Thanks to Jon and Willi for their encouragement.  Thanks to my sis for being the coolest lil girl I know.  Thanks to my granny (the inimitable Nany) for keeping me in her prayers every morning and night.  I feel like I’ve gotten lucky a LOT lately, so maybe she’s got something to do with it.  And thanks to the Universe.  You know that part in high fidelity where Cusack realizes owning a little record store is perhaps what he really wants to be doing with his life.  This is that moment for me.