subject: Rarity As One Of The Major Attractions To Teak Garden Furniture [print this page] The lengths people are ready to go in order to get genuine teak garden furniture are indeed remarkable. We have seen people going as far as importing the furniture from very far off places, often at very considerable expense, when they couldn't get it in their localities. The prices that this type of furniture typically goes for (and the fact that people are willing to pay that much for it) is further evidence as to the great attraction it has. Many people are therefore baffled, and interested in finding out what factors are behind this allure of teak garden furniture.
As it turns out, one of the factors behind that allure is simply the furniture's rarity. This comes about as a result of the fact that teak is a relatively rare wood, growing only in a few select habitats in the world. It is definitely not the sort of wood you will find growing in every farmer's personal forest. There are certain regions of the world, unfortunately very few of them, where teak seems to do well. And there are countries, actually a majority of the countries, where teak doesn't grow: meaning that it grows in just a few countries, and even then, in limited places.
The end result from all that is a situation where the furniture that ends up being made from the relatively limited teak resources is very little, and competition for it is fierce. That constitutes the rarity advantage/attraction to teak garden furniture that we are talking about. It also helps that besides just being rare, teak furniture also has a number of attractive features, such as hardiness (resistance to elements), and durability, which all add up to make it even more alluring.
This rarity of teak furniture in turn yields a number of other attractions. Seeing that the furniture is rare (that is, its supply is limited), with its demand being high, we end up with a situation where its price is also expensive. That is going by the basic rules of economics, where limited supply of a resource that is in high demand often leads to a hiking of its prices, as the market mechanism tries to make a natural and fair selection' of the people who will get to use that limited-supply resource. This high price of teak garden furniture in turn has the effect of transforming it into something of a status symbol' thanks to its exclusivity. And furniture turns out to be one of those things where we see the paradoxical situation where the more expensive a product it, the more alluring it turns out to be to buyers.
Further still, we have the rarity of teak furniture making it something of a novelty, so that it is the sort of furniture that others seeing it get fascinated by it. It is not a common sight, so having it makes you come across as 'someone of good taste.' And because so many of us would like to be perceived in that way, it turns out that we are ready to go to considerable lengths in search of the teak garden furniture.
Rarity As One Of The Major Attractions To Teak Garden Furniture
