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they must be running pretty tasty margins though.
I think you are right. My experience is in used and bespoke-new but most modern furniture seems to cost almost nothing at manufacture ... with the costs being importation, sales, stocking and shipping.
There is a weird trend now for consumers over-compensating for this with 'Oak Furniture Land' type-stuff, with unnecessary over-use of hardwood (using a third more material than necessary - if it were manufactured carefully).
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I think I'll call the supplier (Viaduct) on Tuesday. It was all paid for on CC, yeah.
Yeah I think so. FWIW, we've had a terrible run recently of stuff turning up fucked / dented / broken - guess as backlogs are cleared suppliers and shippers are dropping balls all over the place.
We bought some sofa / chairs for our deck and two of them had small cracks in the chairbacks. I offered to fill them then re-finish if they would give me £200 back on the order, instead they sent two brand new chairs (with the cushions as well!) and didn't want the old ones back.
That's kinda the way to do it...they must be running pretty tasty margins though.