Comments for W. furniture saga stretches to Baton Rouge at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 17 out of 17 comments http://www.theind.com Wed, 22 May 2013 01:47:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22864 Comment: Not that anyone cares about reality, but I know the Ward's and Have seen what they have been through over the past several months. I know that they did have several businesses in the New Orleans area and they were never closed to leave any customers or vendors hanging. I know that they came to Lafayette after loosing everything they owned in Hurricane Katrina. I know they had a very good business in River Ranch and supported the community in many ways. When their business started to struggle last year after the oil spill, I say how they did everything they could to keep the business going. I miss them now that they are gone. I knew they were going to leave before the store closed because Nina had to take a job out of state so they could support their family. If they were taking customers money for their own benefit, I don't think Nina would have had to leave her family to live in another state while her husband was in Lafayette working with a broker on selling their bus iness. I know Rene was looking for a job for months and never found anything so when Nina had a chance to return to her former employer, they had to go. I also know that they were very excited to have a buyer for their business so that no one even knew that that had to leave. They wanted the business to continue and from what I understand, it would have if not for all of the ridiculous non-sense that has been published. This dragging of their name and the Brand W. through the mud has devalued their business to the point that they have lost three different buyers who have stated that the publicity is the only reason they are passing on the business. I know they are renting a home that has no furniture in it. I watched them struggle as business owners who tried to execute an exit strategy that never had a chance. Lafayette should be ashamed of how it thrives on pain and suffering! - Who Cares? Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:16:26 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22455 "nuttycreator" or whatever your name is. Comparing Circuit city's meltdown and W furnishings is just a little bit different. Small family owned business vs national corporate operations are a little different. Just a pinch. - Thor Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:13:54 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22207 Nuttycreative- Are you aware that the May's LIVE in River Ranch???? As in, the May's, the owners of this (fine!!) publication? Your perspective, well, needs a new perspective. The Ward's? BILKED PEOPLE OUT OF MONEY. Took deposits, never ordered furniture. It's FRAUD. They are, and always have been: FRAUDS. The difference between W and say, Brown's "going out of business" is that places like Brown's are not known (or at least I don't know them to be) custom order furniture stores. You walk in, you buy, you leave, it's delivered. Done. W, on the other hand, had a very custom/special order business with goods predicated on a 6-12 week lead time. Does that make it a little clearer? Your apples and oranges comparison bears no fruit, pal. I hope the Ward's get what they deserve. Lafayette is far better without them. They did this in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and I'm certain that they will do it again if unpunished. - Design District Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:51:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22172 Nuttycreative: Have you ever read The Advertiser? I get more Lafayette news from the Ind. & the Morning Advocate. I hope the Ind. never stops telling it like is. - the original northsidian Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:15:09 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22052 You are so out in left field with your comment of " The Ind seems to go out of their way to make news out of nothing as long as it involves shedding negative light on prominent people or prominent locations" The Indy is just providing News, and the light falling where it may, as like the British Royalty, always with their Drawers in a melvin when found with their antics exposed, we here in Rivah Raunchy, also have our familys/peeps with illusions of grandeur as you will someday learn, who always are being caught on center stage with the spot light shining on their shenanigans, this is a fact of life, we exist only to F-U......this is a human trait. - HARDHAT Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:37:29 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22051 Nuttycreative, tis better eh. Nutty, don't get ya drawers in a pinch, there are many fine people living in rivah raunchy and you will find that the wannabees who have sold the family jewels to live there " ARE Quite Snobbish and there "ARE.... those who could afford to move there and these folks " ARE... very unpretentious peeps, ever more down to earth folks like the Mayes, the Higgingbothams, The Hamms, etc. But! The peeps down the street, as you will see, (the bald Fatso inebriated couillion who roams the streets of Rivah Raunchy in his customized brightly painted Golf Cart, with a "I VOTED FOR JOEY, on the rear end, with a placard on his back which says, I am a "Pal Of Joeys, La De Da ) striving to be accepted in this pseudo-glam, Glitzy De Colours Zirconia community do exist, to eke out a payment on the Casa Blanca in the back 40, and they will always remain in " Never Never Land. I am not referring to all the residents, only to the couillions like the Fatso Bald Inebriated couillion with the 48 oz. dixie cup of OLD SOUTHERN, and his co-dependent, the Blue Haired Lady with the Saints plastic, "BIG GULP CUP filled with K-Mart Blue Light special, WHITE ZIFANDEL. C`est La Vie - HARDHAT Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:25:51 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22048 Well... I do not personally know these people nor have I "sipped wine" with them. I recently moved to Lafayette and happened to find River Ranch appealing. I am not a snob. I chose to live here for the amenities readily available. Having just moved to this area, I find the journalistic style of The Ind quite amusing. Hollywood has TMZ (Thirty Mile Zone) Lafayette has IND. If it happens in River Ranch or other new developments, the paper is all over it. Wait... newsflash... "Local property owner cited for environmental waste by cutting grass on vacant commercial property..." He could have bailed hay to send to stricken farmers in Texas, but he might be accused of using his property as farm land and you know, those damn farmers always get the big tax breaks... All I am trying to say here is that The Ind seems to go out of their way to make NEWS out of nothing as long as it involves shedding negative light on prominent people or prominent locations. And, always with a naysayer attitude. How about writing about the positive impact such developments are contributing to the city? - Nuttycreative Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:39:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22046 @nuttycreative. Somehow when I read your first posting I deduced that you lived there. Yes it is newsworthy when they abscond with your money! Let me guess, you probably drank white wine and played with their french bulldog at rhythms?? By the way Curcuit City announced their closure in advance and I am almost certain paid their employees their final wages. And who the hell are the Jones'? and why would a person going to a propriator to purchase furniture be willing to fall with them? OMG I am wasting my keystrokes with you. - stateofeight Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:34:33 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22045 @Nuttycreate. somehow before I scrolled down all of the comments, reading your first post told me that you lived there. You must have played with their french bulldog at rhythms, I guess it isn't newsworth until it your money they abscond with. By the way, Circuit City made an announcement about their closure and I am almost certain paid their employees their final wages. - stateofeight Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:28:43 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22037 Mr. Shotgun. You may want to check your grammar and spelling. I happen to live in River Ranch. The main point of my post was "is this really newsworthy? Businesses shut down all the time over much more nefarious circumstance then simple husband/wife swindlers. Does this really need to be raked over the coals for weeks just because the business was in an upscale retail district? Bottom line... buyer be ware. If you want to keep up with the Jones' then you must be willing to fall with the Jones' - Nuttycreative Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:39:56 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22007 NUTTYCRETIN, oh please someone give this ya-yan-ning bebe a crying towel, poor paranoid couillion, Eh Walter ? To insinuate that you would shill the "W fiasco locale in a bad light, when your favorite Heminingway water hole the Cvracked Egg, "IS situated in RIVAH RAUNCHY...EGAD WAlTER, my dear old chap, thats so unlike you, I dare say. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:36:02 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-22005 Po Bet Circuit , You can't sell stock for less than what it cost to purchase it, thats how you go out of business. Now W. Home Furnishings " DID RIP THE SLOW LEARNERS OFF, at EXORBITANT prices which gave the slow learners braggin rights on their neighbors The Jones, and end result the slow learners were burnt. Now thats chasin the "American Dream. All the way to the Po House. How Funny ! Reminds me of K-MARTS BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL, RUSH. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:24:15 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-21995 Gee Walter, it seems the Ind can't win. Some nut job has to either claim you are for River Ranch or against them depending on the story? How often do you guys change sides?!?!? sigh - Bryan Fuselier Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:39:21 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-21993 On another note... How many times has Brown's Furniture "gone out of business?' or "lost their lease?"...... - Nuttycreative Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:58:44 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-21992 Would The Ind be giving such attention to a store, let's say, on Cameron Street or Lafayette's Northside that went bankrupt with creditors left holding the bag? There is no excuse for business owners swindling potential customers, but it happens all the time. I think your paper somehow gets a bit of pleasure out of dragging this story out since the store was in River Ranch or Perkins Rowe. Didn't see much of a rouse when Circuit City went under and dozens of local employees lost their jobs, which I am sure was greater of an economic loss to the community then a few missing pieces of overpriced furniture... Just food for thought. - Nuttycreative Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:57:10 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-21984 Another case of white collar crime that will go unpunished!! - the original northsidian Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:10:03 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9009-w-furniture-saga-stretches-to-baton-rouge#comment-21965 If "W" had been a government store, there would be subsides. While the free market abhors stupidity aka the Wards. - James Melancon Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:21:16 +0100