Buying online

I'm always a fan of finding good deals online (who isn't?!?) but sometime it can backfire.  We ordered 4 beautiful outdoor Adirondack chairs.  And they arrived in HUGE boxes.  Boxes full of slats of wood.  We forgot to read the small print that we would have to stain, seal, and put them together...  By the fourth, I could build one in a half an hour...