My ex bought a genuine Persian rug from Turkey for $2000+ and I have to say that it was one of the most impractical things in the house. It just seemed completely out of place and I was always afraid of damaging it. I hated it. Interestingly, we were told that the more you step/walk on it, the better it is for the rug.

Woot, if you continue on this tack and turn woot.com into Amazon's Useless Farking Gold Box Part 2....I shall kill you.

How many big messes can I push under this rug before I need to clean them all out?

I think I saw this yesterday for $10 at Goodwill

I've lost the reference cite ...
but I'm pretty sure I read that when they knocked it down from the "original list" price (shown on the tag with the instructions) ...

they disabled the flying option ... down to 'demo levels' ...
it's not suggested you attempt to fly anywhere where the neighbors could witness your attempts...
Indoors flying attempts only ...

At first glance I thought this was an Alyssa Milano collection.

"A bargain at twice the price!" I said to myself.

Thankfully, I read the rest of the description before going for the gold button and avoided what would have been an incredible disappointment.

brendan948725 wrote:My band plays with a rug like this on stage. It's classy and very easy to stand on for a 90-minute set! Much better than a sticky wooden stage, that's for sure.

I hope that's a joke because my drummer would burn his kit before he would set him drums and rack on something like that. You must not play rock or metal.

I miss the 60Hz HDTVs, hah.

I have no idea about the quality or worth of these rugs, but I hate in general the scam a lot of rug sellers pull. Notice the $1245 price tag for this "wool blend" rug? I doubt it would ever sell for that. Also notice how during store closing liquidations, they always bring in some shady looking 3rd party people who sell rugs like this in the store with marked up price tags to unsuspecting bargain shoppers. I guess they are counting on the fact that most people just don't know what rugs like these should actually be worth.

By the way, if you're just looking for a cheap 5'x8' area rug made of cheaper materials (usually olefin), Big Lots has a few decent ones made by Mohawk in the $40 range and some slightly better ones in the $80 range.

Okay, I've been a wooter for at least 5 years. I have heard all kinds of complaints over what has been offered for sale and quickly dismissed them as anyone should who understands, different strokes for different folks. But at the same time, woot (now amazon) should try to undertand its audience. That being said I must say....

JUST DAMN

Too bad this is only "Persian style." Given the unrest in the Middle East, genuine Persian rugs might be in short supply for the next few years so $299 might have been a good investment for a real Persian rug (my ex bought a genuine Persian rug for $2000+, could have been $4000; I forget).

LJ3 wrote:that rug really tied the room together

Ooook, so where do I plug it in? Huh? You said Woot, right? <:^\ Either it has USB or it has firewire....? No? Neither? Is it some sort of refurb? It's not one of those awful squat vacuums is it?

Oh...oh....I see.....it's been peed on, huh?

Serves 'em right.

Is that the rug from The Big Lebowski?

urocyon wrote:Well it is multi-threaded.

Maybe it was meticulously assembled in a clean room using Hyper-Thread technology.

I believe these are Feizy rugs. They have some of them on the site www.ellerandowensfurniture.com. Says they are power-loomed in Turkey with a blend of natural and synthetic pile. Still doesn't list the blend of wool to synthetic percentage.

What color/style would be best for a person with brown hair? Also, how do you get it to stick to your head?

captaincrunk wrote:That rug really tied the room together.

Yeah, if you unraveled it and used it as yarn...

NightGhost wrote:I should point out that, at 5 feet X 8 feet, you can only fit a rather small body in one of these.

consider rolling your "passed out" body in landscape.

urocyon wrote:Well it is multi-threaded.

This is true,... and I have to admit I DID buy the gloves when they were on sale in the past, but WOW.

By the way, while we're on the flying carpet subject, this is the closest I can get so far regarding high-tech carpets:

http://www.wowhead.com/item=44558/magnificent-flying-carpet

this would go great with a crystal chandelier

babymike86 wrote:I hope that's a joke because my drummer would burn his kit before he would set him drums and rack on something like that. You must not play rock or metal.

A lot of popular touring bands put down Persian rugs actually, but they're spread out under the guitarists/bassists/singers and not the drummers. That wouldn't work too well.

That rug would really tie the room together

Edit: missed the prior post

Is this rug water resistant for unwanted miteration?

arthurecpi wrote:Any idea how big of a body you could roll up in this? My wife is 5'10 so height might work...need a couple feet to drag it by. Not sure about the 5' wide. I wonder how absorbent and porous it is.

I'll get two just to be safe.

You're better off waiting for Woot to offer the Spider eComposter again. It's more politically correct.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...

Persian style made in Romania.

I found an interesting article about this factory in Romania where they were making this rugs.
They actually filed for bankrupcy last summer and still struggling to sell over 200,000 square meters (over 2 mil sq ft) of this rugs.
The american owner closed the factories in Romania because in US, (where he's exporting 90% of this rugs) people buying either cheap rugs made of plastic or very expensive ones made exclusively by hand. The asian producers are able to produce hand made rugs for similar prices with the ones made by mechanic machines in Romania. India and Pakistan are exporting the most this days.

Ten bucks says woot will put up ANOTHER roomba after this rug so we can have something to clean it with. One cannot have too many roomba's! That must be a fringe benefit if you work at woot. Free parking space, dental, medical, oh yeah, and a free roomba.

Which will be higher?

- Number of Romanian Persian rugs sold, or
- Number of times commenters will make that Big Lebowski joke

Looks like the first sales are tying Oregon together. 100%!

Geesh, a rug. You can buy better on eBay for $30.

From the description: "The second side (often referred to as the “party side”) is for times when you want to protect it from spills or other damage displays the pattern in more subdued colors."

The "second side" has a big label on it, and looks like the back of a rug. Who would ever use these rugs upside-down? It wouldn't look like a more "subdued" rug, it would look like you flipped all your rugs over because you didn't trust your messy friends.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow night's Imitation Ming Vase ($199) and the next night's Southwestern Painting in Driftwood Frame (choose from "Cowboy at Sunset", "Stampede" and "Sun-bleached Cow Skull", each $249).

Persian Rugs: A History

Grandma? Did you steal my grandma's rugs out from under her?

These belong in Grandma's house - so, so dated.

Here's one of the rugs on eBay:

Some seller

The listing is kinda suspicious.

NightGhost wrote:Being married to an interior designer, the first thing I noticed is how dark and "busy" all of these are. Obviously, they will not brighten or "soften" a room. In fact, even at 5 by 8, they will dominate all but a very large room.

That doesn't mean they aren't attractive, but it does mean it's easy to place one improperly if you don't know what you're doing.

Honey??? (drat, she's asleep)

DECORATING WITH AREA RUGS

Nightghost is MARRIED? How in the Woot does he have time for that if he is spending his days doing all of Woot's work for them? No one gets busy at his house from Midnight to 12:30 Central, that's for sure.

Okay, one last try at something relevant--buying guides/info that might help:

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/article/0,,203414,00.html

http://www.paradiseorientalrugs.com/article.html


Good night, y'all.

usclawyer wrote:Nightghost is MARRIED? How in the Woot does he have time for that if he is spending his days doing all of Woot's work for them? No one gets busy at his house from Midnight to 12:30 Central, that's for sure.

Married with children...

i can probably only fit one hooker in this. dont want.

usclawyer wrote:Grandma? Did you steal my grandma's rugs out from under her?

These belong in Grandma's house - so, so dated.

Those rugs Grandma had probably had centuries-old designs; Persian ("style") rugs are timeless (otherwise, they'd call them "Iranian rugs").

But I understand. Sometimes a room just really needs the cast of The Simpsons.

To quote Palmer from THE THING, You gotta be warping kidding.

A rug? Wouldn't you want to look for "your" style when getting a rug. Do Wooters have a style that consists of getting a rug?
So many questions... There must have been a shipping mix-up. At least pier one must be having a good deal-a-day sale.