A Cedar Falls-area furniture store ran a conditional weather rebate promotion offering customers who made qualified purchases the chance to receive their furniture for free if it snowed two inches or more at the Waterloo Regional Airport on January 14. More than 100 customers received total rebates on their furniture, totaling over $120,000. This is like a belated Christmas gift for our customers said Dale Emmert, President of Simpson Furniture.

Here’s a story posted by the television station. Read the press release or the view the news story posted on YouTube.

Here are some other references to “win free furniture promotions” so you can see how other companies have promoted this type of offer:

Boston Red Sox – Win Free Furniture
The widely publiczed Jordan’s Furniture giveaway.

Ikea’s Guaranteed giveaway
A local Ikea grand-opening promotion run last year in Brooklyn.

Free furniture offer sponsored by the Ontario Furnitue Manufacturer’s Association
This was a guaranteed giveaway offered to increase attendance to a business-to-business trade show.