Tactics when buying a kitchen / how to negotiate properly?

Kuhlmann is the manufacturer.

Loss of storage space is okay.
What I am more afraid of is the wear on the rails due to scratch marks. My husband looked at a handleless kitchen at the kitchen studio yesterday and was shocked by the scratches on the rails. But the kitchen is near the entrance. Who knows how many people have already tried the handling there...

Oh look, from Löhne. There are so many kitchen manufacturers in OWL. Kuhlmann doesn’t ring a bell for me, even though it’s from that area. Just judging by the furniture price, it looks relatively fair. The ceramic countertop can also quickly get expensive when it goes around corners or into window reveals. That’s why we’ll first buy a countertop that we might replace with ceramic in 15 years if the children still to be born have the motor skills not to break everything anymore.

The thing with the various design/equipment lines and sales channels is unfortunately one of those issues that seamlessly fits into the topic of opacity in the kitchen market. Bosch/Siemens/AEG and Miele don’t differ at all here. The really nice appliances are only available at specialized kitchen retailers, and then they get lost in the opaque block billing again.

That’s why we will first buy a worktop, which we might replace with ceramic in 15 years if the children yet to be born still have the motor skills not to break everything anymore.

I've heard that teenagers are capable of breaking pretty much EVERYTHING.

There was once an article about how this block billing originated and the "Mondpreise".

The ordinary, time-stressed customer walks in and bang

well, the same customer spends x hours on the computer or in the showroom when buying a new phone of a certain brand every 2 years, which costs a fraction of a kitchen. He takes the time for that; the old one ends up in the trash. The kitchen will stand for 30 years.

It's the same with these Thermomix. €1200+ is paid without batting an eye for something you can also do in the oven, on the stove, or with a cheap all-in-one pressure cooker and rice cooker, yet the kitchen is expected to cost nothing in return.

What do you think about buying a kitchen completely without appliances and getting everything yourself?