5 reasons to buy your rug online: Reason 2 – Saving Money

October 20, 2009 by

buying online When it comes to shopping for rugs, many people try to combine ease and speed with value as two of the most important factors affecting their rug shopping experience.

So our number 2 reason for shopping for rugs online is saving money.

When buying a rug, you have two general options:

buying your rug from a carpet shop
buying your rug online

Taking yourself to the high street in search of the perfect rug means spending time traveling to and from the traditional carpet shops in the first place. See our reason number 1 for shopping for rugs online.

Once you get past the time investment that goes into your rug shopping, whether it’s on of offline, your next immediate concern is usually cost.

When you buy your rug from a carpet shop, you’re usually paying for more than just the rug. As with most other shops, the business owner has to cover the costs of running the business by factoring this into the price of the products (in this case, the rugs).

In some cases, rug prices may reflect in some way the location of the shop and the cost of running the shop. For instance, you would expect to pay a lot more for the same rug in Harrods than anywhere else. Similarly, a haircut in a very exclusive haridressers will cost you a lot more than it would elsewhere (we all remember David Beckham’s £200 skin head).

For the rug shopper all this means one thing: balancing price with quality.

In order to get a good quality rug, you’re going to have to shop upmarket. The more upmarket you go, the higher the price you can expect to pay for your rug.

Unfortunately, many rug shoppers end up settling midway for a decent quality rug at a high cost (the most they’re prepared to spend).

None of us like settling for second best, especially when it’s an addition to our homes – one that we expect to have around for quite some time.

A rug is a very prominent piece of decor – second best rug means ‘not quite satisfied’.

Getting your rug online solves all this!

Online shopping changes the whole dynamic by cutting out almost every element of traditional shopping, which means a fantastic saving for the rug shopper.

Online shops don’t have to deal with any of the running costs that a traditional shop incurs.
This means that online shops don’t need to ‘recoup’ running costs by inflating their product prices.
Online shoppers usually pay a little over the wholesale price of the goods (the profit markup of the online shop) which usually works out significantly lower than the retail price anywhere else.

This all means great news to the online rug shopper:

the shopper can expect to get the best for their money without compromising quality
the shopper can expect a good saving
the shopper gets to enjoy a great quality rug for years to come

The Modern Style Rugs online shopping experience:

As an online rug shop we are able to provide great quality rugs at rock bottom prices.

We don’t have any of the constraints that traditional carpet and rug shops have.
We source our rugs from all over the world, which means we have a greater reach than many traditional shops
We only stock very high quality rugs from their original countries, so you get to enjoy the real thing, not a replica
We don’t have middle people to deal with, which means you get the rug without any markup fees

We could go on and on about how shopping for your rug from the Modern Style Rugs website is the most cost effective option you have available to you, but we think it’s better to prove this by showing you our fantastic range of high quality rugs and our incredible prices.

Take a look at our rugs, find the one you like and give us a call on 0845 5190 354 to speak with us and ask us anything you want. We’re here to help you.