You can't buy a decent sofa for £500?

[FoxEye]

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 :/

 

[FoxEye]

Yeah it was new :/

I wish as a society we'd stop producing throw-away **** and start producing only quality goods again.

 

[FoxEye]

£50 on materials and Chinese labour, £450 on delivery to UK, storage and showroom salesman's wages.

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!

 

[FoxEye]

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 didn't choose it, I just paid for it. So no, I never sat in it or saw it until today.

 

[FoxEye]

Slightly reminds me of when I was living in a shared house and one of the neighbours had rather nice brown leather sofa outside that was gonna be chucked.
Me and a friend hauled it into the house and had to stand it on it's end to get it up the stairs when it started humming

Yep, you've guessed it... I ended up fishing out a vibrator that had gotten lost down the back
I was going to leave it on the neighbor's doorstep, but I just couldn't do it.

The sofa was definitely 'pre-loved' then.

 

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I used to build Sofas/Chairs. We also repaired ones that had been bought elsewhere and the "quality" on some of them was absolutely shocking and Im not talking cheap tat either

So where's a good place to get a decently built one, would you say? I'm not looking for something that would grace a mansion, just a well built, comfy sofa.

Also important that it should be easy to get in and out of.

 

[FoxEye]

Why didn't you do this instead of spending a very small amount on an untested, unviewed and unreviewed piece of tat?

1. It's not a very small amount. It's £500. That's two week's pay for me.
2. I didn't choose it.
3. It's for my Mum, whom I owe roughly £500 (and a bit more).
4. I (wrongly) assumed that anything £500 would be well made.

If I bought a £500 gfx card, I know it'd be good. I'm not a sofa expert. I have no idea what the material cost of a sofa is. None at all. I've never bought furniture of any kind before.