There are more things available than you can see in a single visit, several of them you have no idea what they’re for.
You always end up spending more than you planned on when you first arrived.
You have to spend several hours putting everything together yourself, and it always takes longer than the instructions make it sound like it would.
After getting tired of doing it by hand, you decide to get the power tools out. You wonder why you didn’t use power tools from the start, and vow to always use them from the start for future assemblies.
When you are almost done building it, you realize that you’re missing one of those special pieces that holds the whole thing together. You’d simply go to a store and buy one, but you have no idea what it’s called.
When it’s time to move, you end up having to disassemble Every. Single. Piece.
If you don’t save the instructions, you’re going to hate yourself when reassembling it as you’ve since forgotten how it went together in the first place.
When it breaks, it’s better to just throw the whole thing away and get a new one. Then, you find out that they no longer sell the same exact version of what you had and you have to settle for what they now offer.
The names give you no insight into what the thing actually is.
While building it, you are going to misplace the special little tools at least 6 times. None of the tools you already own fit the fasteners quite right.
You start building it before realizing that it can’t be moved to it’s final location in it’s assembled state.
About halfway through building it, you wonder why you decided this was a good idea and begin to resent the person who talked you into it.
Not all stores carry the same items, and the nearest store is often several hours away.
Delivery costs as much as the entire product.
You can pay extra for someone to come and put it together for you.
You think it’s going to cost less, but it actually doesn’t.
It’s popularity is putting smaller providers out of business.
Other companies have done a pretty good job copying them, but when you get home and open the box it’s pretty obvious it’s not the same thing.
It falls apart the first time you try to use it. You go back and reread the instructions only to realize you missed a fairly simple concept. Fixing it requires taking the entire thing apart and building it from scratch properly.
If it’s not properly secured, it could fall over and cause serious damage or injury. The vendor accepts no liability in this case, though they do offer to sell you additional fasteners and brackets to help prop it up.
When it’s finished, it may be a little crooked, but it still gets the job done. You no longer have the motivation to go back and straighten it.
You keep it around past its useful life because the thought of having to assemble a new one honestly frightens you.
People who’ve never been there in person wonder what all the hype is about.
If you know exactly what you need, you can just go in the back and get it yourself without having to walk through the entire marketplace.
