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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 170144, member: 25&quot;]I don&#039;t have the money to do this, and I am pretty sure no-one who does have the money would be interested.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I&#039;d like to take two empty, typical 2 or 3 bedroom houses that a first time buyer might buy and fill one with used furniture and appliances bought at auction and the other with entirely brand new stuff bought in the shops.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not talking about ratty old junk for the used house, the supply of well made and durable furniture in good condition is ample, as are perfectly serviceable household appliances just a couple of years old. I think apart from food and bathroom smellies, everything could be bought to furnish a house ready to move in and use. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have had a fair bit to do with local auctions that sell run of the mill hosehold items, not the better quality antique stuff I have been used to viewing and buying. I think for about £1000 (about $1400 equivalent) I could furnish a house from carpets to cutlery.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I&#039;d buy all the same type of items brand new and furnish the other house, not expecting any change from £10,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point of the experiment is to then recruit a focus group of 20 to 30 year olds, the nest building age nowadays, and run them through both houses. I&#039;d then ask them which they prefer and why before revealing that one cost 10 times or more the other, and then re-question them. I&#039;d also try it with different socio-economic sample groups and groups that know the price difference before being questioned, the usual market research spread.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I want to establish is why people who are typically strapped for money don&#039;t seem inclined (and this is just my impression )&nbsp; to take advantage of all the great stuff they could get for peanuts, and show the antique and used trade how to focus advertising to meet the concerns of potential buyers. Maybe it is not aversion, just ignorance of what is easily available.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose the whole thing could be done as some kind of &#039;reality&#039; TV programme, front it with some presenter the bantlings consider &#039;cool&#039; and probably galvanise the market that way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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