Shades of MAD Magazine style exaggeration. Also: > For fun, sort by highest price first. To the general point, I once had a long conversation with an ex-engin

Shades of MAD Magazine style exaggeration. Also: > For fun, sort by highest price first. To the general point, I once had a long conversation with an ex-engineer who was selling select European furniture in the US. He was adamant that most American consumers pay no attention to build qualities, and are sold shoddy "night-shift" versions of pieces that have e.g. metal channel reinforcements in Europe, with the shoddy versions certain to show sag etc in a few years. One specific option is to buy a sofa in a showroom in the US, then immediately go in and reinforce it with metal brackets and/or channels. A higher-end version of Ikea-hacking.