re: Buying Unassembled Furniture Sucks (what would you do?)

Update: I went down there with the piece in hand. The dude on the floor was cool and called a manager over. The manager told me he would let me take the piece off the display model. So I got down there and unscrewed it. I then gave them my defective part and it was good enough to half-assed prop up the display model (a bit shaky but good enough).

Win-win everyone is happy. So glad I didn't have to wait a week on a part.