re: What would you buy used vs new?

I’ve been looking into updating my shitty, just out of college furniture and damn that shite is expensive

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I made my own kitchen table, coffee table, end tables, and entertainment system cause most stuff reasonably priced is trash nowadays. Farmhouse style (which is what we wanted anyway and came out great)

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I had to read this again and see who posted it. Thought I might have posted in a thread that got revived and was reading something I wrote.

I made out bedroom furniture (bed, dresser and night stands), kitchen table, end table, entertainment center and entry way table.

I got tired of beds that squeaked and made all kinds of racket when you so much as moved an inch. Always woke up the wife and dog when you roll over. I got my bed super quiet. Added under bed drawers and ditched the box spring, the dresser has good sized drawers (not too big but not too small). I built in an obscure drawer for storing a few guns. It's taller than normal store furniture. The night stands and bed are slightly taller than box store furniture as well. It's all solid wood and no particle board.

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2K dining tables are trash. Anything nice these days is way more expensive.

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You are aware that there's a gradient scale to quality, right? At $2K you are absolutely NOT receiving a "trash" dining table. This is ridiculous. I've had perfectly fine dining tables which cost me less than $1K, and I am saying this as one who made a significant investment ($12K) in a high quality one when we built our house 5 years ago. While we love it, it does not make any of the cheaper ones from our past "trash." It's simply higher quality wood and design. That's it.


Take your pretentiousness somewhere else.

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You are aware that there's a gradient scale to quality, right? At $2K you are absolutely NOT receiving a "trash" dining table. This is ridiculous. I've had perfectly fine dining tables which cost me less than $1K, and I am saying this as one who made a significant investment ($12K) in a high quality one when we built our house 5 years ago. While we love it, it does not make any of the cheaper ones from our past "trash." It's simply higher quality wood and design. That's it.

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Have you bought one under 2K recently?

Most are trash. They are made super poorly. From bad finish, to construction, to materials. For less than 2k you are most likely going to get something that looks nice, but is made of paper mache and held together with staples basically.

Good guitars.

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I bought a 2018 camry le brand new for $23.5 at .9%.

You saying I'm an idiot? Carollas are now 23.5...

I've got a paid off car with 78k miles..

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KBB private party value of that is $14676-$16445 if it's in good condition. Not bad.

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electronics

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Just bought a Yamaha receiver from a resale shop for $60, brand new they were $300 and eBay has them for $120, massive win since my Onkyo receiver shite the bed.

Yup as some baw said earlier 2k is a low tier table. Full solid wood is pushing 4k

guns, guitars, Hatteras

Now way I'm buying pre-farted furniture for any price
End table/coffee table for 1/3 price? Sure
Used toyota with 30k miles for decent price? Absolutely

I am a buy once type of guy... I'd rather pay full price for premium options that lasts years beyond the competition, than pay for used garbage 2 or 3 times... if it takes me 6 months of research, then so be it... buy once for a lifetime or settle for cheap crap every 3 years.. in the end you pay more for cheap shite