You can't buy a decent sofa for £500?

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I'm fuming!

We had a sofa + chair delivered today, and the bloody thing is so poorly made, it broke the first time we tried to move it. Actually, the hauliers took the feet off (which I'm sure aren't designed to be removed), but the general construction is appalling!

Instead of wheels, the thing sits on tiny metal pins, which are now bent up inside the sofa, and little plastic cups, which now aren't attached to said metal pins.

For £500 I was expecting something that is functional and made to last a few years. I expected it to have caster wheels like every other sofa in existence!

But then when other people buy sofas, they spend over £1000 every time, so maybe you just can't get a decent sofa for half as much :/
 
I buy ex-display ones or ones that are almost-new from ebay.
Even with 'OMG 50% off today only!' dealers DFS SCS etc. are way overpriced.

My four seater sofa cost me £450 ex-display and was up for £1000 at the time in the supposedly awesome half price sale.

For £500 you can get a good sofa and chair but you would need to hunt for it. If you bought it new then it will pretty cheap and nasty for that price.
 
Since when did sofas have castors, what a terrible idea. Thankfully not a normal thing.
But yes general qaulity is rubbish and prices are insane.
 
Yeah it was new :/

I wish as a society we'd stop producing throw-away **** and start producing only quality goods again.
 
If you only just got it then try to get a refund saying that it is cheap and nasty so you aren't happy.

Generally speaking I would never want a second hand sofa, but mine was from http://letail.co.uk/ and was ex-display. Ebay often has some barely used sofas for exceptional prices.
The website now looks OK but before it looked absolutely awful. It looked so bad that I drove to his small unit at a farm north of Nottingham to have a look.
I realise that this is not much use to the OP as he is in Cornwall, but there must be places like this all over the place.
 
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Rozzy85 said:
£50 on materials and Chinese labour, £450 on delivery to UK, storage and showroom salesman's wages.
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And this is everything that's wrong with our manufacturing sector.

We ought to be making quality goods in British factories, and I'd be happy to pay the price for the result.

Believe me, I didn't think £500 was cheap for a sofa, but now I *know* it's cheap. Guess my assessment of the value of money is a little ... wrong!
 
Did you not see the sofa before buying it?
Surely you physically sat in the thing before you spent a load of money on something designed to be sat in?
How did you not notice its construction and its feet when you sat in it?
 
i quite like our sofa, it wasnt cheap (still half price in one of them sales) but i really liked the colour and design, i doubt i would have got anything like it second hand

plus the potential for jizz
 
We bought a 3 Seater large double bed sofa bed and a 2 seater sofa and that really was not cheap, probably around £1.5k+. You just need to shop around.
 
It's worth looking in furniture type charity shops, I volunteered in one for a couple of weeks and was surprised by the quality of the furniture. I bought a very comfortable black leather chair for £10, after I wiped the chair with leather wipes, it looked brand new. I found a chair that's a touch more comfortable from Harvey's last year but I had to part with £900 for the privilege :(
 
I spent about £3000.00 on my current sofa, my last one I bought for £1700 which lasted me 12 years:) If you want good quality sofa which will last a lifetime then you need to a place that hand makes them but be prepared to pay a small fortune for it.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Did you not see the sofa before buying it?
Surely you physically sat in the thing before you spent a load of money on something designed to be sat in?
How did you not notice its construction and its feet when you sat in it?
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I didn't choose it, I just paid for it. So no, I never sat in it or saw it until today.
 
I was going to make a post about how you're crazy and my sofa was less £500 and excellent quality. Then I looked on the Habitat website and saw it was £650. My other half has deceived me.

It's a nice sofa though!
 
FoxEye said:
I didn't choose it, I just paid for it. So no, I never sat in it or saw it until today.
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Oh dear :(
When we last bought sofas, that we're the 70 quid jobs from IKEA, we must have together sat on well over a hundred in different places until we felt we found one that would be comfortable.
Was a very tiring day of sitting and standing, and going from place to place.
 
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