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Lee from Pocitos -

There are plenty of options for furniture and many items are locally made and it always includes delivery (at least for the "new" items).

We bought some items at Divino. I don't like their website as it is flash based and they don't show any prices.

Divino is not the cheapest place, however, their location on Ave Italia is huge (unlike at the mall). The selection is good.

After wandering around the store for an hour or more deciding what we wanted, it dawned on us that we hadn't been bugged by a sales person. In fact there didn't appear to be any sales people at all!

Finally we asked someone and they said you had to take a number at the front! Oh oh! We missed that part when we walked in.

At least they had a comfy sofa to wait for our number to be called. Now we had a personal sales rep to handle all our needs.

Once the order was written up we had to pay which seemed to take forever. Some of the items we bought were priced in dollars and some in pesos and we paid with dollars, pesos and will pay for one of them items when they deliver.

The cashier wrote the serial numbers of all the 100 dollar bills on the both copies of the receipt and then had me verify he wrote them down properly.

The best deal was a nice wooden table I purchased from their "outlet". I like a plan table for my computer and the one I have now is a little bit small.

In the "outlet" section of Divno they have an odd selection of stuff and some dining room tables up high where you can't really see them. One was marked 1, 490 pesos (US$60). There was another one a bit larger without a price.

Surprisingly the larger one came with a whopping price of 865 pesos (US$35.74). I bought that one and still haven't looked at it to see what is wrong with it. I suppose it has a nasty scratch or gouge out of the top.

It is study which is all I need. They weren't nice enough to give us free delivery for that! However, they did call a delivery company and we took that home with us. The delivery cost 220 pesos (US $9), and we rode back with it, saving a 100 pesos or so taxi fare.

I'll certainly be back to the Outlet department at Divino.

• Divino S.A. / Montevideo - Uruguay

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Comment #1 New toys from toy chest -

I'm in love with the furniture on that website. I can't understand the words, but I do love the pictures. Very pretty. I want that store here. I bet if it was here, though, the prices would increase unbelievably.

Comment #2 Steve Bowman from Piriapolis & Savannah, Ga -

Lee-

This may be repetitive, but getting a credit card price and cash (USD) price will save money for major purchases. Cash saves 8 - 10% with most merchants. Devino is one of the exceptions; they're too big for this game.

Steve Bowman

• Coastal Uruguay

Comment #3 Elroy (63.176.159.111) - Mon Sep 22 09:09:07 2008

Of course those merchants that give you a discount for cash are at risk for losing their visa and mastercard merchant status.

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