A bitter business divorce between a Scandinavian furniture maker and the Brooklyn retailer that exclusively hawked its viral sofas has left 300 furious customers in the lurch.
The lucrative reciprocal relationship between trendy Teddy couch-maker OMHU and peddler Teak in Greenpoint made millions of dollars while transforming the city biz from a pop-up retailer to a fixture of the trendy Brooklyn nabe.
But now Teak is urging its pissed-off customers to dispute the $2,500 charge-per-sofa on their credit card after its contract dispute with OMHU left it too cash poor to get the popular corduroy couches out of warehouse limbo just 45 minutes away in New Jersey.
“I need them to be shown for the s–tty people that they truly are,” infuriated Teak CEO Cailtin Maestrini told The Post of OMHU e

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