Stairlifts are a huge rip-off. Acorn seem have control of a large part of the market. The quality of the acorn lift is poor. I suspect the materials the lift is made from and the design is old, probably 1980s. Little or no development has happened since. The market has grown vastly since the then and the profits must now be enormous but this isn't reflected in the price, developments or improvements. Social services funding is undoubtedly keeping the price far higher than it should be and