Furniture industry fakes run rampant

Recently, a video was circulated on WeChat and Weibo in the Guangzhou furniture industry. The video was an interview with the TV station. It was said that Ms. Chen, a citizen of Zhengzhou, purchased a solid wood sofa and a TV cabinet in 2010, which was sold for more than 190,000 yuan. After being sold at a discount of more than 60,000 yuan after 3.5%, the merchant has repeatedly promised to be all solid wood, and is a Russian-imported coffin. Until recently, two children slapped and one child bumped into the corner of the sofa. When the child's head was all right, he knocked the corner of the sofa out of a hole. Through the hole, he could see that it was gel-like. Filler.

"You see, except for the mixture of glue and resin, it's all empty. Not to mention all solid wood. It's not even a compression board. It's just wrapped in a layer of wood."

The actual shooting time of this video was early this year. The brand pointed to Attri, and the other brand's Lily products were also included. In fact, in the furniture industry, it is not uncommon for fakes to be rampant and to be good and bad.

Unspoken rules 1:

Solid wood furniture hidden synthetic board

The quality inspection results of wooden furniture announced by the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce in March this year showed that the consistency of up to 20 batches of product marks was unqualified, and the name of the wood was not consistent with the actual measurement, implying that the event of posing as a rare tree species with inferior materials was not few.

The reporter reviewed the details of the announcement, and 20 batches of unqualified 21 batches of wooden furniture were found to have unsatisfactory identity consistency, exceeding 95%. The main manifestation is that the material type is not consistent with the actual measurement. The main material or substrate is clearly represented by solid wood such as teak, beech, oak, walnut, and jellyfish.

In mid-August, Ms. Shen from Fangchenggang, Guangxi, told reporters that he had spent more than 60,000 yuan and shipped dozens of pieces of furniture purchased from a furniture company in Foshan. He found that the sample was too large and the workmanship was rough. Surprisingly, the furniture that was bought was soon cracked. She said that in March this year, she went directly to see the goods and also visited the furniture workshop. The salesman said that the furniture was made of solid wood materials, and even the partitions of the wardrobe were made of solid wood panels. “But the furniture delivered to the home is a far cry from what the manufacturers saw: rough work, uneven and potholes everywhere, not only poor workmanship, but also the material is not the solid wood and board that was originally said, and many places use cardboard. Afterwards, the furniture suddenly cracked.

The reporter visited a number of furniture stores. The salesman initially said that the furniture was pure solid wood and the outer layer was water-based paint. It was very environmentally friendly. However, many furniture also use synthetic plates on the back of the desk, the back of the wardrobe, and the drawer bottom. A manager of the company who advertised the company as “mainly pure solid wood furniture” told reporters that this is a line of rules. The floor of the drawer, the desk backboard, and the wardrobe backboard are generally made of synthetic boards.

Whether it is in a furniture store or a shop that buys furniture online, if the reporter does not ask “what is the material of the wardrobe backboard, drawer bottom board, etc.”, all buyers will not actively inform this important detail. Furniture stores, including some branded furniture stores, in their commodity descriptions, generally only indicate the names of main ingredients such as “ash” and there is no clear indication that there are synthetic boards in the products. In product pictures and text descriptions, There is also no description of the sheet part. Although some consumers who bought furniture did not return the goods, they also stated in the product review that “some parts of the board are still quite large and should be informed in advance”.

Unspoken rules 2:

Better deceptive

This phenomenon of pretending to use wood and resin as solid wood has long existed. Turning on a computer, solid wood furniture purchased with tens of thousands of yuan has finally proved to be “sticking solid wood furniture” or simply being a combination of four-leg wood and solid wood. "Furniture" has numerous complaint cases. However, in the primary market such as Kitakami, this phenomenon is becoming less and less. Only a few low-end furniture stores still exist. Another kind of unspoken rules, which are inferior and more deceptive, prevail.