It dawned on sisters Olivia and Emily Davis, after more than a month of trying to convince themselves otherwise, that they had purchased, in Olivia’s words, “a terrible couch.”

The Davises bought the Anabei modular couch as the key piece of furniture in the living room of their Los Angeles apartment, replacing one they had acquired on Facebook Marketplace. The sisters mostly furnished the place with secondhand stuff, but they both kept getting online ads for the Anabei, which touted that the couch was machine washable, sustainable, modular and more.

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