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Likes Facebook Marketplace. Likes Craigslist.

18 Nov 2024 Acquired IKEA

“I think I talked before on the Meta episode about how much I love Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist before that.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
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Claim type
recommendation
Recorded
18 Nov 2024
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
IKEA

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…Yeah. That is the perfect encapsulation of how much money customers save by the IKEA flat-pack, pick up yourself at the warehouse model. In fact, it’s more than that because I think it was like $30 or $50 in a delivery fee. Call it $400 that you’re saving by buying something the IKEA way versus a fully-assembled delivered-at-your-house thing. I’m saving over a third of the total purchase price by doing it the IKEA way versus the traditional way. Which I’m laughing, brings up for me was the ultimate IKEA hack for many years of my life. I think I talked before on the Meta episode about how much I love Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist before that. I decided, probably, I don’t know 10–15 years ago, hey IKEA furniture, despite the fact that you have to assemble it yourself and whatnot, it actually is pretty durable. On the one hand it gets the rep of disposable, but if you take care of it, it’ll last a long time Even through a disassembly and a move?…

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