Furniture deals, minus the damn permanent clearance

Furniture is the department where "was $899, now $399" is not a discount, it's a business model. Nobody buys a sectional often enough to know what a sectional costs, and the pricing is built squarely on that. Furniture listings frequently carry reference prices set well above any figure the item has actually sustained, because shoppers have little basis for comparison on large, infrequent purchases. You buy a sofa maybe three times in your life. You buy milk weekly. Guess which price you can spot a lie on.

How we score furniture

Furniture pricing is strongly seasonal, with the deepest genuine discounts clustering in January and July as retailers clear ranges ahead of new seasonal collections. A markdown inside those windows is ordinary and scores modestly; the same markdown in April is unusual and scores high. The bigger problem is history. Because furniture model numbers change frequently and listings are often replaced rather than updated, long continuous price histories are rarer in furniture than in most departments — and a product without enough history simply cannot be scored honestly, so we don't score it at all. That's why this page is thin some days. A damn empty page beats a confident guess.

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