Buying Amish Furniture: Use a Website or Home Furniture Showroom? When buying furniture, many people are undecided whether to buy from a home furniture showroom or from a website. The feeling is generally that online is easier and also more convenient, but that buying from a showroom or mall store is safer. Are they right or not? There is no distinct answer to this question, because those marketing using each of the above options claim they are the best and safest. There is little evidence either way regarding the security of your payment details. There have been problems with leaked details online, and with credit card cloning offline, so quite frankly you are best to ignore that aspect. Is it more convenient to buy online? That is your decision to make, but with furniture one thing is clear - you have a far better choice online, but you get a better view of your furniture in a mall store or home furniture showroom before you pay for it.