Believe it or not people are so dissatisfied with Gallery Furniture's business practices that they had the time to do this. Pretty creative.
After reading the latest reviews on Yelp and Google Places its no wonder people are starting to dislike how Mattress Mack handles his customers. Not even all the money he spends on PR and advertising can help him from pictures like this from his customers.
The other day I was browsing the internet and came along some interesting stuff on Google and Yelp. It turns out that Gallery Furniture in the 6006 North Freeway is a ... somewhat.. lackluster place to shop for furniture. I kept on seeing various post from many customers complaining and it left me with the impression that Mattress Mack and Gallery Furniture are just out of touch with their customers. I took a couple of screenshots of the comments so you can see for yourself.
What do you think? Personally I have heard to many horror stories of Mattress Mack being rude and smothering sales people for me to go there. But im not alone. People warn other people about Gallery Furniture. Google even ranks the store a mere 16 out of 30 points.
Would you still shop here after reading all these negative comments?
BREAKING NEWS!!!MATTESS MACK'S DAUGHTERS DISLIKE THE HOUSTON TEXANS!!!
This picture is from this years Houston Texans vs Greenbay Packers game. Laura Mcingvale Brown and Elizabeth Mcingvale are shown here wearing Greenbay Packer jerseys. YUP, Houston Texans fans should be sadden that a local business and Houston Natives would support another city's team.
Let me begin by telling you that not everything in the
Internet is true. It is every other month when we read about a celebrity or
person of interest that has passed away; but the story turns out to be a
complete hoax.Just the other day
I read about Morgan Freedman, a beloved American actor famous for Driving Miss
Daisy and The Shawshank Redemption had passed away. However the story turned
out to be nothing but a complex trick from an “internet troll”.
But the stories I am going to tell you in this blog today are
real. None of the people were invented and most of the stories have credible
sources that I will withhold their names for obvious reasons. The story I am
going to tell you is about an incredible Houstonian whose fame and power are
unprecedented in this city. The man I am speaking about if Jim “Mattress Mack”
Mcingvale.
Many will see this blog as an attempt to slander or a smear
a good man. However my goal is to simply deliver more transparent information
about a man whose life has been completely concealed by the local media because
of their advertising bias. I read somewhere that “journalism is printing what
someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations”.I believe that local media in the City
of Houston has fail to expose some secrets in the McIngvale family.
He Really Doesn’t
Save You Money
It is no secret that the Mattress Mack is a successful
millionaire. His advertising deceptions have catapulted him into wealth thanks
to his year round “sales”.It
doesn’t take a genius to figure out his advertising deceptions. All anyone
needs to do is listen to the radio and hear how he promotes his stuff.
“Come on come all to the Pre-Thanksgiving
Sale going on right now at GF”
“Come
on come all to the Thanksgiving Sale
going on right now at GF”
“Come
on come all to the After Thanksgiving
Sale going on right now at GF”
“Come
on come all to the After Thanksgiving
Extended Sale going on right now at GF”
What I really loathe is how he incorporates any tragedy to
sell his furniture. A couple of years ago after Tropical Storm Allison, Mack
was running ads with fictional customers (thanks to his Advertising Agency)! Then after September 11,
2011 Mattress Mack ran a “Shop Here To Keep The Nation Strong” campaign. I am
pretty sure on the next national or local tragedy, Mack will run something with
the XYZ Remembrance Sell-A-Bration Sale.
Mack’s constant advertising bombardment on Houston’s media
waves does not come cheap. Gallery Furniture is probably if not one of the
biggest ad buyers here in Houston. This constant bombardment of advertising
hurts the bottom line for customers shopping for furniture. An inside source at
Gallery Furniture has confirmed to me that the standard mark up for any product
is 50% to 75%.To put that into
perspective the average markup nationwide for used cars at any given dealership
is 9%.
It is the standard practice (according to my source) at
Gallery Furniture to print out price tags with “Last One” and “Markdown 50%” on
any given merchandise the store is selling.These kinds of labels are misleading and borderline illegal
(false advertising). The labels give to customers false facts about the
products availability and trick the customer into believing it’s the last one
in stock.
The bottom line is that customers at Gallery Furniture do
not really save money on furniture nor does their money go to help out local
business (As they clearly state in many of their current commercials). What customer
really spend their hard earn money on is supporting the continuous bombardment
of Gallery Furniture ads in Houston, a Austin Mansion, a Failing Business, Luxurious
Suits, and much more. Do not get me wrong some money does help out local
programs and an occasional business here and there but nothing to what its
Advertising/ PR Company says.
So customers beware! Gallery Furniture is a high-end
furniture store with soaring prices.
Working For The Man
Before I meet my source at Gallery
Furniture I had heard many myths and stories about working for Mattress
Mack.A few people that used to
work there used to say that Mack was the greatest boss in the world; in the
other hand the majority of Gallery Furniture employees strongly disagree. I
myself had my opinions of Mattress Mack. He seemed like a nice guy and the
media was always portraying him as a humanitarian.But it was not until my source had showed me a video of one
of Mattress Mack’s screaming rampages at a store meeting that I truly begun to
believe him.
According to him, “Mattress Mack is
the biggest micro-manager (he) have ever met”.My source stated to me that he manages every aspect of his
business from the janitorial work that Mack’s sister does to the Warehouse
operations to how his life is portrait by the media. Yup! you heard that right,
Mattress Mack constantly watches what the media says about him, his store, and
his family. Anyone in the media that doesn’t represent his brand the way he
likes gets cutoff (He stops buying media, commercials, etc. from them).And since he is usually is the biggest buyer of air time,
radio staions, newspapers, tv stations, etc. tend to skew information to
Mattress Mack’s desire. A perfect example of Mattress Mack extending
But why believe me. A simple Google
search about Mattess Mack and you can quickly discover forums and blogs about
him and his family. GlassDoor.com a leading website for an inside look at
companies, gives a 50% approval rating to Mattress McIngvale as the President
and CEO of Gallery Furniture. One person gave this review:
“Extremely autocratic management style.
Professionals are not allowed to do their jobs. You must become a
"Yes" person or you are labeled a "non-team" player. There
is no work-life balance. You must be married to the job and put family in
second place to be viewed as a contributor.”
The following section details certain aspects about the
McIngvale family life. SPOILER ALERT! This article/blog has yet to discover the truth about the rumors of Jim
McIngvale’s drug past usage & money laundering to start his successful
business in Houston. Rumors are that Mattress Mack was a “big time” drug dealer
in Dallas and the money he made was used to start Gallery Furniture.
Linda Mcingvale
She is the wife of Jim Mattress Mack and runs the Westside
Tennis Club and manages various operations of it. She currently lives in the
Westside Tennis Club with Jim Mcingvale. Sources say that she has financially
supported her son’s business in Dallas. Rumor has it that she earns over 60,000
a month operating the Tennis Club.
James Mcingvale
Currently lives in Dallas TX. and owns a spray paint business.
Many sources say that his business is unsuccessful and Linda Mcingvale supports
him financially when times are tough.Contrary to many people’s beliefs he is not a Catholic like his father;
he has changed his religious beliefs to Judaism.
Business webpage: http://oinkartltd.com/
Laura McIngvale Brown
Currently lives in Austin TX. She is now married to Phillip
Brown who is head chef at Vince Young’s Steakhouse.Her involvement in Gallery Furniture has increased over the
years. Laura seems to be replacing her father as the face of the store as
evident by the new ads. After getting in banned in High School to attend her
senior prom, Laura threw a counter prom the same night her High School had
theirs.Sources say that the
school lost money due to Laura’s party. She is also a avid spender like her
mother.
Liz McIngvale
Liz is the youngest of the McIngvales children. She is well
known for the OCD she obtained at the age of 13. She has been on the Dr. Phil
Show with her father to discuss her problem. Close sources had stated to me
that she constantly changes her vehicle for a new one because of her OCD.
The End?
I
know that some people will bash me for not having credible sources listed in
this article. But as I stated before I am protecting the names of people
because some of them are still employed by Gallery Furniture. And to the people
that want me to delete this post I will do no such thing. I believe in freedom
of speech! I will continue to post! Check back and subscribe!
