What did you order on the internet?

interesting to hear. A table that weighs, for example, 88KG didn’t sound entirely unreasonable at first.
How should I understand your quality standards?
Can you, for example, tell me what your dining table cost or other pieces of furniture you have bought?
I would like to somehow classify your opinion

Sure, it’s not easy to classify other people’s standards.
We moved in with our existing furniture, and at the moment there’s an Ikea table made of primitive pine that was once intended as a provisional solution. With the IKEA chairs from my first apartment 15 years ago. What should go there eventually is the following cherry dining table:
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I want to build it myself, but due to family reasons I can’t do it at the moment.

Back then at Massivum, I was specifically looking for a display cabinet for the dining room. The furniture was screwed together with simple eccentric connectors, backs made of thin panels with many knots, fronts roughly brushed. The joints were so-so. Drawers rather simply made.
Overall not fine carpentry but mass production from somewhere cheap. If I spend a lot of money, I want proper dovetail joints and a nice selection of the grain. The carpenter can still gladly work with the CNC milling machine and does not have to do everything by hand for me and by moonlight.

For a decent dining table, I certainly wouldn’t expect to pay less than 2,000-3,000€. The usual solid mass-produced furniture right now is mostly made from very knotty wood (trade names Wild-beech, -oak, etc.), which used to be sorted out. You can then sell a heavy table for around 1,000€. A proper set of fittings for the table drawers or good splines quickly cost a few hundred euros. Sure, you can also solve it more simply and cheaply, and under benign climatic conditions it can hold up. Then the customer just has to accept the nature of the wood and its possible cracks.

Lately, I have built many fitted furniture pieces for the sloping ceilings in the converted attic. Birch multiplex was used there. Heavy, stable, not cheap, but wonderful to work with and does not warp under load. The joints were made with Lamello and pocket hole screws. Not high art but reasonable for the application and quantity involved. I only grooved the sliding doors. They run perfectly without hardware. There I saved a bit. There is a photo attached as an overview.

Here also as an example my custom-built washbasin:
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We ordered quite a few things on the internet a few years ago, including the [Wohnlandschaft] as well as the [Essgruppe]. Everything worked out great and we haven’t had any problems with it so far.

We also order so much on the Internet. It all started with clothes or the occasional technical device. Nowadays there are almost no limits anymore. Sometimes we get such big packages I wouldn't be surprised if the neighbors think we're crazy.
If you also know a bit about it, then you know where to order from. I even recently ordered our privacy screen online. Simply measured well, sent the data, and done. I like how easy it is and that I can place my order in the evening/night when I have time and not just during opening hours

With furniture (not lamps or decorations), I usually don’t order anything expensive online because you often can’t conclude anything about proper quality there. However, you can buy ready-to-assemble furniture like at Roller or Poco online. They don’t cost that much, so it really doesn’t hurt if in doubt, and it’s also difficult to undercut the quality of furniture stores. I would actually never order upholstered goods online, but with our sofa set, I was close to it because the furniture store didn’t budge on the price, I luckily found exactly this sofa at many online retailers, and got prices that were 40% cheaper there.

However, I have now seen a report about how returns are handled. Even if it’s only cheap materials, it pains me deeply to see how much is scrapped there. From an ecological point of view, this actually clearly speaks against such purchases.

We have ordered the following online:
- Lamps
- Bathroom furniture
- Sanitary fixtures
- Mirrors
- Glass kitchen backsplash
- Cistern

Which provider for bathroom furniture and mirrors can you recommend? We are currently looking as well.