10-09-2017, 04:40 PM
(10-09-2017, 03:04 PM)WRXtranceformed Wrote: Yeah man it's nuts. Our neighborhood has a Facebook page where people buy and sell stuff and I bought our kitchen nook table and chairs basically brand new for $400 off of a For Sale post. The table is a really nicely built solid wood piece with built in folding leaves that I think wifey told me was $1k+ by itself and the 4 upholstered chairs were something like $200-$250 a piece brand new from Bed Bath & Beyond. This lady got all of it as a gift from her children but she wanted something more antique-vibed so dumped it "cheap". Even I thought $400 was a lot but you just can't find really nice furniture for not outrageous prices.
A lot of even low-quality stuff is sold like it's some heirloom item or something. I'm half inclined to just slap together some old pallet pieces, stain them super dark and start making "USA ARTISAN MADE FURNITURE" for a massive markup and see what happens. Guy I know will take old tree stumps, level the tops out, put some glass on it and sell them as coffee tables for like 1-2k or probably less than 100 dollars of materials and 10 hours of labor. Pro-tip, the heavier you make coffee tables, the more implied quality the consumer will think they are, assuming materials are of (seemingly) good quality.
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