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Spoiler: a formica-on-plywood desk, 1195 mm/47", 770 mm/30.5", 750 mm/30" with a max load of 75 kgs / 165 lbs is $1,599. And you have to assemble it yourself. And pay for shipping.

Ikea's KULLABERG Desk, pine, Width: 43 1/4" Depth: 27 1/2" Height: 29 1/2", is $199.00

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This price point is crazy.

It would be worth a look at $399-599 but $1600 for one third of a sheet of birch plywood wrapped in Formica on top of an extruded aluminum frame with some machined connectors is, as you said, crazy.

Yet the Ikea one is ugly.

Am I to read that as you saying that the $1,599 desk is not ugly, and that you'd be willing to pay an extra $1,400 for not-ugly?

Yeah it looks amazing. I’m not buying it, just as I’m not buying many other beautiful luxury products. Not with my current budget at least.

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