If it cannot cross a border cleanly, it is not in the catalog

Buying a cabinet from another EU country should be dull: a date, a door, a two-person carry. When it is not dull, the listing left something out.

Read the packed size, the carrier note, and whether the seller books the last metre of stairs. The studio can only promise the piece fits the room. The stair and the border are still prose on the page.

If two sofas look equal in the room and one has a clear delivery path across the EEA, that one is cheaper even if the number is higher.

Furniture is not a poster. It has mass, and mass has logistics. Prefer sellers who admit both.