Kitchen purchase - How do you negotiate the price?

a kitchen topic: After 2 consultations, I am already completely annoyed by these stupid kitchen salesmen. I feel totally fooled. You look at a kitchen, ask for the price, which of course is not displayed, and faint... 20,000€ After a shock phase, the salesmen start giving the first discounts... after 2 hours you are then at 12,000€ and still have the feeling of being fooled. If you then want to compare kitchens of the same brand, you can't because no one hands out the parts lists. Everyone knows that the dealers do this on purpose to be able to give these monster discounts. I don't like it anymore How do you negotiate your kitchen, or how do you compare prices?

I heard from my parents and a friend that it works exactly like that. You get 50% off super expensive kitchens everywhere. You don’t get any concrete offers to compare at all. Estimated tactic: Have many sales talks and push the price down. It gets expensive again when you want special kitchen appliances : )

Hello,
for us it was pretty clear pretty quickly that we wouldn’t let ourselves be fooled by such kitchen salespeople and so we decided on
a kitchen from the carpenter. That way we get exactly what we want...

I’ll have a quote made next week too.... I hope the carpenter can keep up. I still need a bit more from the carpenter and hope to get a good overall package. Only if I have to go to such a nonsense kitchen store, I want to be “washed with all waters.” Negotiating is not hard for me. It’s in my blood, but I like to prepare a tactic in advance, and hearing from others how things look isn’t bad either :=)

Good evening,

How do you negotiate your kitchen, or how do you compare prices?

I will tell you our story and then you can see what you make of it

A few years ago we faced the same problem. The best husband of all was already despairing because I have a talent for finding the most expensive offers on the market (regardless of the item); it works even without price tags. In short, the kitchen I liked always came with a five-digit sum at the checkout; we both somehow couldn’t accept that. A good friend gave us the useful advice to visit a well-known Swedish furniture store; we had strong imaginations of surplus screws etc. – just the memories we had stored in a corner of our minds from earlier years. However, the good friend remained just as persistent as we were in not finding a price-relevant kitchen.

So off we went to the nearest Swedish store... and were pretty surprised. What supposed brand suppliers offered – like soft-closing drawers for example or a wide range of fronts – also worked at the Smörjebrot provider; the feet and bases are all the same anyway. Boldly, we put together the kitchen furniture according to our kitchen measurements... with one exception: I would never, ever have bought the Swedish store’s Russian/Polish or whatever electrical appliances! We then purchased these separately in an electronics specialty store.

Long story short – the kitchen today – after 3 moves – is still like new; we have already replaced base cabinets because the kitchen dimensions changed and also added to it. Everything still works like on the first day and the price was one-third less than that of a brand supplier or cabinetmaker. What I would do differently today: I would use the furniture store’s assembly service. Not because screws were surplus or missing, but the cup of coffee would have been less stressful

Kind regards

Hehe .... I already checked with the Swedes and got a reference price. That was also my first approach, and also my fallback solution if everything else goes wrong. But here there are simply some restrictions that have to be made, which do not fit into my/our concept. For example, the standard size of 60cm length. As far as I can remember, they don’t have 80cm cabinets. And especially in our kitchen, three 80cm cabinets make much more sense than four 60cm ones.... But that’s a matter of taste. Also, it bothers us that there really isn’t a front that convinces us. Sure, there would be a compromise solution, but that would cost us almost 4000 just for the cabinets without appliances.
Assembly service is definitely fine, because I once assembled such a kitchen and never want to do that again Too many parts, too many screws .... hehe
Electrical appliances from the Swedes can be forgotten, that’s clear too

Hello!

So, after buying about a dozen kitchens (partly for work), I still haven’t found a foolproof solution to this plague.

The only thing that really worked was buying a showroom kitchen. The measurements didn’t fit, the stove wasn’t to our liking, the sink wasn’t the right one, etc. – none of that was a problem, some cabinets were even rebuilt in the in-house carpentry workshop.

As far as I understood the post correctly ([Küchenzeile von 3 Metern!?]) this shouldn’t really be a problem either. However, I wouldn’t favor 80 cm wall cabinets for structural reasons.

And I’ll quickly sketch a kitchen plan of this size – no salesperson would mind.

I recently moved with the now 17-year-old kitchen and pimped it a bit (kitchen island, LED, autonomous stove, induction, ceramic sink, recessed sockets, full extensions) – it was a damn lot of work.

In the end, there are only 2 options: Either inform yourself a lot or pay a lot.

Best regards,
Tomtom.