There are plenty of places that you can buy a new sofa for less than $1,500. And that is before you consider buying 2nd hand.
Most of the furniture we have are antique’s and came from Garage Sales, Thrift Stores and Antique Stores. All of our new furniture for the past 25 years has come from either Costco, Sam’s Club or Ikea. We have never paid more than $500 for a Sofa and that was for a huge, very nice leather sofa on clearance at Costco.
I recently went and bought a brand new, huge, Ashley sectional with lounge on sale for $900 at a liquidation store.
People are nuts.