I wanted to purchase a new Lounge chair and lowest price at Harvey Norman store was $999.
Actually that was the only chair with a price. The other 17 chairs - Price on Request.
I went else where, second hand chair in excellent condition $220.
I walked around this huge store noting prices and how so many products are completely overpriced.
A double door fridge $5000, Clothes Dryer $2300, Queen Bed $3200,Smart Phone $2000.
Seems to me that these products are becoming crazy priced.
Manufacturers know the higher the price, the higher the profit.
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did you miss out on Black Friday then?
you’ll have to wait until Boxing Day now 
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Hi
When I downsized a few years ago I sold my ground floor furniture as it was too large for the new house and only took the upstairs furniture for 2 Bedrooms.
I bought second hand from specialist Charity shops, taking my time over doing so.
Luckily Shrewsbury has some very classy ones.
There is also Facebook MarketPlace.
A pair of crystal Lamp shades for $30
One advantage of being a man living on your own and waiting for the real bargains, not having to buy things retail.
The biggest bargain was a top quality 3 and 2 seater italian leather sofa, badly stained, looked awful, $80 to restore plus the hard work and time restoring the leather.
It did help having two hefty polish lodgers with a large van to move things here.
Floor coverings were roll ends from Ebay.
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Yep, it’s possible to find some really decent stuff in charity shops Swimmy! As you suggest location can be key. Having taken my son on a weekend away some years back to Shrewsbury to watch football I can vouch for the classiness of the shops 
As for the football…
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Not every store is mad expensive but some are. In France there seemed to be the high end stuff with high end prices in places like France Meubles or Roche Bobois. And then the not expensive but really poor quality stuff in the vast hangars of Conforama or But. So Ikea fitted right in the middle - normally good quality but not too expensive. And more recently there a Danish company called Jysk that does a lot of solid hardwood furniture at pretty good prices. Just recently bought a dresser from there for about 400 euros.
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We got a rather playful kitten earlier in the year and she likes to use the three piece suite as a scratching pole despite having one, anything that dangles or hangs is also fair game (bless!) so furniture buying is out of the question at the moment Bretrick…
Being a Yorkshire bloke though, I can hang on to my brass for a bit longer…
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I went to two furniture stores to furniture the place on the space force base before I chucked the idea and started scrounging around consignment stores. What’s incredible to me was not just the prices in the used places, but that so much of the furniture was made of hardwoods instead of this gray, pulpy, soft madness that they are marketing as “wood.”
Great find on that used chair! Hope you enjoy t!
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