Snake Essay 002: Are some deals too good to be true? A case for NO

On fake and real furniture, market prices and getting the real stuff for way too little

Snake is a reader-supported newsletter covering good furniture, undervalued, or eternal. Not many auctions this week—listings are at the bottom—so I wanted to talk more generally about real and fake furniture, and buying it, and knowing how.

On a tip, I wrote a newsletter about what I thought might be a scam, where a guy on Craigslist seems to be sellin…