Kitchen price comparison - Fair or fantasy?

Kitchen and sanitary are the worst

Kitchen and sanitary are the worst

Only as "bad" as those who commission the service. Every pot finds its lid ... always.

Effectively, it’s quite simple. You have your budget that you want to spend and an idea of what is necessary and what would be nice. With that, you go there, put your budget minus a little bit of money on the table, and see what he puts together for you. If he falls off the chair in shock, you probably reached too high. If he rubs his hands together internally, you aimed too low. If he grits his teeth but tries to conjure your kitchen for the price, you got it right.
And in the end: you get your dream kitchen and feel well advised, so you won't hesitate about an extra 1000.

Effectively, it's quite simple. You have your budget that you want to spend and an idea of what must be and what would be nice.

But it's not that simple. How should one know what would be appropriate? I also don't want to pay 15,000 euros if the kitchen should not cost more than 10,000.

Best regards
Sabine

Our kitchen became an almost 1:1 replica of another kitchen from the forum, meaning we knew the realistic price was about €19,000. First studio. Exact reproduction (of course the same manufacturer), appliances exactly the same €29,000. The idiot didn't want to lower the price by a cent. That is simply rip-off. If it works with one out of ten, it was probably worth it. Various other studios... prices between about €19,000 and €34,000. The bigger the studio, the more expensive... Furniture chains were often insanely expensive. In the end, it became a small studio with a super nice owner for just under €20,000 including a bit of accessories. Kitchens and mattresses. These are simply rip-off industries. There are exceptions, but if you don't feel like searching... you usually get unlucky.

It is a clear business model:
- Artificially high list prices
- there is always a current promotion (-50%, all appliance cabinets free, free dishwasher, linear meter prices)
- Anyone who compares carefully notices that their desired kitchen always costs about the same, no matter which promotion is running.
- The goal of the promotions is to get the buyer to sign immediately after the initial planning ("Promotion runs only until tomorrow," "My boss/the manufacturer never allows such discounts")
- Once the buyer has signed and reconsidered calmly, a few changes come to mind. The few details that do not make up 5% of the kitchen are then changed with dictated list prices, and the kitchen then costs 25% more. The buyer can no longer escape all this, as they have already signed. Very untrustworthy sellers deliberately plan incompletely (no waste extraction system, shelves instead of drawers, missing dampers).

Sounds very malicious now, but unfortunately, these are my experiences with this industry.