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Frankly, why do couches cost so much? I'd like e-ink and furniture prices to both trend down.
by tvanantwerp 6y ago
Frankly, why do couches cost so much? I'd like e-ink and furniture prices to both trend down.
- myself248 6y agoThey're bulky to store and ship. It'd be cool if couches came as a kit with an order sheet for you to source the foam locally. The frame and coverings would fit in a door-sized package. Hmm.
- berkes 6y agoI'm on the other end: Why is furniture so damn cheap? It uses natural resources, causes waste, needs transport, and above all, needs manufacturing, by craftsman and women. My wife repairs (upholstery) furniture and car interiors; with european wages, refurbishing, say, your designer-office chair or sofa easily costs upwards of €2000 (the answer, I'm afraid, is that "manufacturing" is cheap because of defacto slavery (sweatshops) of state subsidy (China), that "waste" and ecological footprint is not included in the price, and transport also subsidised by both the far-too-cheap "overseas" labor, and often even direct from states.)
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