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Why are chairs so expensive?

I see someone ask if this chair is good and the price is 600 DAMN DOLLARS600 Dollars for a damn chair?Why? It is just a chair..

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Without knowing the brand of the chair or seeing a photo I can't really tell you much other than you get what you pay for. I have a chair right now that belonged to my mother that she got in the 1950's made by Broyhill. I have no idea what she paid for it. When I got this chair all I had to do was spend some money to get it recovered and a new cushion. Her high dollar furniture lasted longer than 3 sets of the cheaper furniture that I bought over the years. Broyhill upholstered chairs are running $600 or more. Knowing what I know now, if I had the money to afford higher dollar furniture I would buy it.
You can make your own for a lot less.
capitalism a price for everything a value of nothing to a wealthy person it is nothing so are you value see there is none
to make a chair is a lot of skilled labor.
Chairs can easily cost that or far more depending upon how they're made, what they're made of, and upon how exclusive they are. So $600 would be excessive for a plastic garden chair but might be a bargain for a high-tech designer leather office chair or for a collectible antique Chesterfield dining chair. It also depends which $$ you're using. If they're Australian or Hong Kong $$ then $600 isn't worth anywhere near as much as US $$. It's not something I'd be willing to pay, either assuming you're using US $$, but luckily for people like you and I there are plenty of cheaper chairs as well, both new, used and designer models if you like paying for brand names.

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