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This is amazing! Do you also think the quality of the item delivered would be the same? Despite whatever website we go to? I know for a fact that 'same' electronic items sold at walmart are cheaper and are of slightly lower quality than those sold at home depot, etc.

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The majority of the items we list today, we can trace them back directly to the distributor. We have blacklisted some selling websites based on low customer reviews.

I am sure you are correct in tracing things to distributors.

FWIW, I had a long conversation with an ex-enginner who switched to selling European furniture in the US. He described European factories building steel-reinforced furniture on one shift for the European market, then on another shift flimsier too-thin-wood-reinforced versions for the US market.

One easy hack can be to look from the bottom into e.g. a new sofa and reinforce sections which appear likely to sag over time.

Oh my, that is very strange and interesting. Thank you for this note!

Yeah, I added steel bottoms to my Scandinavian designs bookshelves, reinforced the bottom edges and braced the corners with steel flashing, and replaced the cheap backer with some good quality hardboard I picked up at the big box. Handed down twice now in 25 years and it’s still in use at my nephew’s house.

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