Are you green enough to buy the $420 Surfin Table? I'm normally an avid supporter of the green movement, but retailers selling something for roughly 10 times more money is just silly, and lowers the credibility of green stores as a whole.
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Remember, a bevy of furniture shoppers spend $10k or more on living room furniture. $420 is just a drop in the bucket for people with budgets like that. The Living Room set they have on sale is absolutely hideous.
-Patrick Summers
I don't think budget has anything to do with it. That table is made out of plywood like you would find at Lowes. Even if the eco-friendly version cost many times more, $420 is absolutely ridiculous.
I am a firm believer in purchasing Green products, and agree with you when you say that most charge about 10x more for a Green product.
I work for a Murphy bed retailer in Oregon that recently made the switch to a Green product and began using 100% solid plywood, however if you compare our prices to that of the industry standard our Green beds still are less expensive than most other companies.
So there are a few companies out there that won't charge you and arm and a leg for a healthier Green product.
I never know. To keep retailers from stripping our pockets for products only marginally more green than others, and to keep furniture from filling landfills I think it's time to learn upholstery, check out craigslist.org for cheap deals or curb alerts and really recycle.
It's possible to get the old stuff to look like the furniture they keep pushing on us at HGTV.
On the other hand I think that if we are to really call ourselves green, then we should do some due diligence on the people and businesses we decide to give our money to.
Money is made to be spent(Price is subjective). The earth was never meant to be cut up and sold. How green is that?
Regards