Of course they sell samples. Your dealer can order a door sample for a couple of hundred dollars.

@User hahaha dang

If a couple of hundred dollars dissuades you from a 60K+ purchase, then you’re not being realistic about the time or cost of your project.

@User building a 1500 sq ft bungalow. A 60k kitchen is probably double then what I'll be paying.

@User I've also got two free samples from other companies. A couple hundred dollars to a company making apparently "at least" 60k off people is them who's not being realistic and just gauging

Then you need to move down several price and quality levels if you want the cheap and disposable level.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. That’s what your dealer gets charged for samples and shipping. Someone has to pay. If you haven’t even given them a design retainer, that someone is you. They aren’t in business to buy sample doors for looky lous.

A 60K kitchen might have 3-6K of profit after the company pays wages, benefits , equipment, and the light bill is paid. Prices have risen 30% in 30 months. It’s not just gas and groceries that are affcted.

@User sounds like you're right in the system.

Thanks for nothing

You are not a client. Give the dealer a design retainer as a commitment, and they might waive the cost of a sample door, that they get charged to send to you.

The cost will get still folded into the eventual sale, but as long as you have a commitment to them with the design retainer, no other up front costs would likely be charged.

That is how any cabinet dealer works that isn’t going to fold with your money and give you nothing in return. Which plenty of the low end box slingers have. You want your cabinet dealer making money. Otherwise you might be out cabinets both when they can’t make money. Business isn’t a non profit venture.

@User I wasn't lying when I said they won't sell me a sample. I've talked to two people.

Have you given them a design retainer? Done any type of committment to using them? Then you arent their client, to go to the trouble and not inconsequential expense of ordering a door sample for you. It takes around 4-6 weeks to get that sample fast tracked as well, so many dealers gave up doing samples except where it is required with a custom color. With a 26 week + lead tine, 6 weeks isn’t that much to wait. For $75, you can order 3 small color samples on molding pieces, which is faster.

when you google chinchilla it appears it is special to walnut species at Omega. in general alder takes brown stains well..no particular redness or orange... question of light med or dark so narrow the options and go back and find the stain that applies ...why do you want omega cabinets ?

@User yah that's what I've been seeing online.

And I'm with direct buy they offer Kitchen craft which I saw samples in person and didn't like. Omega. And another brand that's modern.

We're going for farmhouse . A two tone. Upper whites a lower stained with knots

Direct buy is the total scamarino elephant in the room so, there’s that. Zero anything free with them, for anything. You pay for every single service or material that others might possibly do as complimentary. And they have to go through too many layers to deal with Omega, without any real actual kitchen designers involved. Just salespeople. That’s why tons of mistakes get made by them, and they get charged one of the highest dealer rates in the whole country, with zero freebie bonuses from the reps. The reps really hate dealing with them. They are always a problem and cost them money.

Direct Buy is very far from a bargain in the short or long run. Find a different dealer for Omega Full Access. You'll pay less and get better service both. With far fewer errors.