Mahogany furniture prices? Don't be fooled!

Affected by many factors such as the upstream property market, the end market prices of mahogany furniture that had previously enjoyed the status of aristocrats have suffered high levels of diving since the end of this year. The reporter recently visited the Guangzhou market and found that many mahogany furniture brands on the market are frantically cutting prices, and many products have already fallen below half price. However, some consumers have reported that many businesses use similar but different kinds of low-priced mahogany materials to shoddy and disrupt the market. In this regard, the industry experts pointed out that the real good material of mahogany furniture will not easily cut prices, too many price concessions mahogany furniture, most of the use of cheap scrap, consumers in the purchase or collection should guard against being fooled.

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Mahogany furniture high table diving

Recently, Mr. Yuan, who lives in the Tianhe District, frequently receives promotional advertisements for mahogany furniture from a furniture city. The minimum discount is even less than 40% off. After hearing this news, the reporter visited the furniture city and discovered that there are indeed many brands in the Redwood Museum that are engaged in discount promotions. A brand mahogany furniture store sales staff said that the store discount has never been lower than 50%.

The reporter then visited a mahogany home market in Yuexiu District. A number of imported red rosewood furniture were under price cuts. Many brands' sales prices fell below half price, and they frequently called "Lee Lee's $100,000." A person in charge of sales of a certain brand said that since the beginning of this year, the market has been very sluggish. “There are very few orders. If you don’t have money, you can’t afford to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual rent. Therefore, you have to cut prices and reduce the burden.”

According to statistics from the Yuzhu-China Wood Price Index Network, the Yuzhu-China Redwood Index continued to decline within the month of September. The monthly index experienced a fierce five-liny market, which continued to fall from April’s 278.37 to September. At 206.62 points, the cumulative decline of more than 71.75 points, a drop of 28.75%, into October, the monthly index even fell below 200 points.

Some industry insiders expect that the Redwood market is currently unable to say "bottom" and this weak pattern is expected to continue. The person believes that furniture has a great dependence on the real estate industry. If the house cannot be sold, no one will buy furniture. Currently, the industry is relatively sluggish, resulting in the accumulation of furniture products. In order to return the funds as soon as possible, the company can only adopt a strategy of selling at a reduced price. .

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Different kinds of wood price difference is amazing

Formerly aristocratic mahogany furniture sales seem to make a lot of profits, however, there are consumers that many businesses use similar but different kinds of low-priced redwood materials shoddy, disrupt the market. There are also many buyers in the process of online anger and cheating. "Businessmen will replace the scarce parts of the red rosewood furniture with other materials and even use it to make other red rosewood."

In this regard, informed sources said that different types of mahogany in the scientific name, commonly known as easy to confuse, resulting in difficult market identification, but also to the bad business left an opportunity. According to the source, the price of the redwood chair, which is known as the “suanzhimu” class, may be as high as RMB 100,000.

People in the industry suggest that when consumers purchase mahogany furniture, they should ask more and see more, improve their eyes, learn professional knowledge, and make detailed identifications. They should learn as much as possible about the details of wood oiliness, woodiness, and wood grain.

Consumer Reminder: Most price cuts are shoddy products

Facing the frenzied sales price of mahogany furniture in the terminal market, industry insiders expect that this weak pattern will continue and will not improve for a long time. Therefore, many consumers or mahogany collectors believe that this is a good time to enter the market.

However, an industry insider revealed that many brands now advertise "jumping prices" and "fighting prices", seemingly to benefit consumers, but in fact most of the sales are taking dozens of centimeters of small materials, scrap materials to do the furniture. The real aniseed and good material prices will only go up, and they will not arbitrarily lower prices.

Another brand responsible for the sale of mahogany furniture, said that although some small and medium-sized manufacturers to sell mahogany furniture in order to ensure that the capital flow, but the raw materials for mahogany furniture, the length of more than 2 meters of good material, aniseed prices do not fall, high-end, high-end Mahogany furniture does not cut prices.

Wang Ke, president of the Guangdong Furniture Association, said in an interview with the media that mahogany furniture with Chinese cultural heritage is an artwork and not merely a commodity. Some mahogany furniture lacking the level of craftsmanship and artistic quality does not meet the requirements.

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According to reports, among the national standards of redwood, there are seven species belonging to the red rosewood species. The scientific names are Dalbergia japonica, Barry Dalbergia, Saichuan Dalbergia, Drosophila Dalbergia, A. fabaceae, and D. sinica And dimple Dalbergia. The so-called "big red rosewood" refers specifically to the Dalbergia japonica produced in Laos.