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Steelcase furniture can be bought at pennies on the dollar at office space auctions. In fact in many places companies hold “clearing sales” to clear the office
by dogma1138 7y ago
Steelcase furniture can be bought at pennies on the dollar at office space auctions.
In fact in many places companies hold “clearing sales” to clear the office space from any furniture due to the high costs of disposing of the furnishings when their tenancy ends or when they sale the building.
I bought a Steelcase workstation desk complex that costs around £3000 in the UK for £257 at an auction such as that.
- hermanschaaf 7y agoOut of interest, how do you find such auctions in the UK?
- dogma1138 7y agoHonestly I used google e.g. https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/bpi-associates/catalogue-id-bp10264 https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/bpi-as... Just search for office auctions UK, I don't remember which of the sites I finally used to get the desk from I went through about 10 of those. P.S. Just be careful of the sites that charge you money for getting a collections of listings, these have their value for resellers but not for casual buyers.
- AJRF 7y agoHow do you find those auctions? Is there a website with a schedule of them?
- plttn 7y agoI've also had decent luck on Craigslist. (ymmv, my Craigslist is close enough to SV where the availability is there)
- dogma1138 7y agoGoogle for your local area, there are like 100's of these sites in the UK in fact there are sites that charge you money just to send you a list of bankruptcy, police, customs seizures etc. auctions.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 7y agoIn some places there are entire wholesale businesses that operate on this model. For instance, in Austin there is a place you can go that resells pretty much every office furniture that you can get from cannibalizing these auctions. http://www.topstexas.com/ http://www.topstexas.com/ They don’t always have the color you want, but I got a basically new condition Steelcase Leap there for less than half of what it retails for.
- SeanBoocock 7y agoHah yeah bought my Arron at Tops almost a decade ago. If anyone is in the Austin area, I would highly recommend checking them out if only to get a feel for the range of high-end inventory.