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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| I needed to purchase new bookselves. In English I found results in one minute. It took three Korean employees over a month to find what I was looking for (they were not looking constantly, but took several shots over a month long period). |
Over a month?!  If you'd like, PM me next time you're looking for that sort of thing. I guess these were some commercial-use shelves for your shop, not for your home. But still, I might know people who know what's where.
BTW, how did your bathroom turn out? |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| chiaa wrote: |
| I needed to purchase new bookselves. In English I found results in one minute. It took three Korean employees over a month to find what I was looking for (they were not looking constantly, but took several shots over a month long period). |
Over a month?! If you'd like, PM me next time you're looking for that sort of thing. I guess these were some commercial-use shelves for your shop, not for your home. But still, I might know people who know what's where.
BTW, how did your bathroom turn out? |
They were for the store. The point of the story was to show how limited the Korean search engines are. We had to find this one particular keyword in order to find companies that sold commercial bookshelves. It ended up being something like library furniture for the correct keyword. If they used google's way of determining page rank, or even yahoo's, we could have used any of the keywords we thought were right and found it on the ninth page or something. The funny thing is that there are about eight library furniture companies that all buy from the same factory.  The prices are very reasonable and about half what any of these small wood shop guys charge so your wood guy would not have been good. When these shelves come in, they are going to be the entire new book section.
The bathroom came out very very nice. Paid 1.5 for it which I think was a steal (gutted the old one and had quite a bit of plumbing work to do). My only complaint was that they put down the tile and grouted the same day. Always thought that was a no-no. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| chiaa wrote: |
| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| chiaa wrote: |
| I needed to purchase new bookselves. In English I found results in one minute. It took three Korean employees over a month to find what I was looking for (they were not looking constantly, but took several shots over a month long period). |
Over a month?! If you'd like, PM me next time you're looking for that sort of thing. I guess these were some commercial-use shelves for your shop, not for your home. But still, I might know people who know what's where.
BTW, how did your bathroom turn out? |
They were for the store. The point of the story was to show how limited the Korean search engines are. We had to find this one particular keyword in order to find companies that sold commercial bookshelves. It ended up being something like library furniture for the correct keyword. If they used google's way of determining page rank, or even yahoo's, we could have used any of the keywords we thought were right and found it on the ninth page or something. The funny thing is that there are about eight library furniture companies that all buy from the same factory. The prices are very reasonable and about half what any of these small wood shop guys charge so your wood guy would not have been good. When these shelves come in, they are going to be the entire new book section.
The bathroom came out very very nice. Paid 1.5 for it which I think was a steal (gutted the old one and had quite a bit of plumbing work to do). My only complaint was that they put down the tile and grouted the same day. Always thought that was a no-no. |
No, no, I wouldn't ask "woodshop guy" for those shelves!  All the shelving I've had built & installed was for homes, but a friend recently did the interior on a little oriental medicine clinic, and there was entire wall of shelving from floor to ceiling. I don't know what it cost by itself, but the total for all interior materials was so low that it couldn't have been too much.
Same-day tiling & grouting? The only time I've done that was on some exterior stone pavers that set & dried real fast. But a bathroom? How long did they let it set? I suppose they laid the tile in the morning and did the grouting at night. They'll cut all kinds of corners on smaller projects, especially if they had a bigger job coming afterwards. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:16 am Post subject: |
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chiaa: a good point well made, sir! My hat goes off to you.
I guess I've been over-impressed by the seeming ease with which certain Korean friends find whatever they want online. |
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