4 Reasons Why Buying Used Office Furniture Is Great!

In this fragile economy everyone is trying to save as much money as possible. Although furnishings are an essential part of office décor budget cuts are forcing companies to adopt cost effective measures like buying used office furniture. Until a few years ago buying second hand office accessories was accompanied with the taboo that you get cheap quality and out dated material. But this point of view has changed significantly in last couple of years thanks to posh second sales store and of course ecommerce. Still some people think that pre owned furniture is not worth buying hopefully below mentioned reasons would change their point of view.

Saves Money

Truth be told, every businessman tries to save as much money out of every deal as possible. If you are looking for quality furniture at affordable rates then there is no better alternative than buying pre owned furniture. Gone are the days when second sale stores used to be dumpy shacks or dusty go downs. Today second hand furnishings are sold in nicely packed boxes and delivered to your address at your convenience. Generally you would buy any slightly used office chairs, desks etc. at a discount in the range of 20% to 90% on the purchase cost. Some dealers might throw in a free home delivery that means saving of extra couple of hundred dollars!

On the top of that when you resell this pre owned furniture you actually end up saving money.For example if you bought say 20 Herman Miller cubicles at 80% with purchase cost of$10,000. Meaning you paid $2,000 for them, later you sold them for $1,000 (at 50% discount).

So you sent only $1,000 for the entire deal which means you got a discount of almost 90% on the purchase cost.

Quality

Most of the people think that used office chairs and desks will be of poor quality however they are wrong. Believe it or not even the second sales dealers have reputation to maintain that’s why they don’t like to sell cheap quality goods. Secondly any furniture whether wood or steel has a life of about twenty years which means even if you buy 5 years old Herman Miller cubicles you would still get better quality material at almost 80% discount.

Secondly you can always check the quality of the used office chairs before buying; you don’t have relied on the photos on the dealer’s website or product catalogue. This ensures that you get the quality worth every dollar you spend. Besides many blue collar and white collar companies get rid of their old office furnishings every two three years just for the sake of it. You can buy such used cubicles, cabinets, chairs, desks and lord knows what else for ten cents a dollar and it is not even out of fashion.

Eco Friendly

Like I have said before the hard economic times may force one of us to look for cheaper alternatives but that’s not the only reason you should buy pre owned furniture. Most of the furniture is made up of wood and steel. The steel brackets used in making chairs as well as the plywood are not recycled but dumped in landfills which leads to soil pollution. We know that every year thousands of trees are felled for making furniture if you buy used office furniture you will be able to save at least some of the trees. Going green is not just a fashion but a necessity we all must embrace and buying used office desks is the best way to do that.

Saves Time

One of my best friends was telling me the other day about the delay in opening his new office.Apparently he and his partner had decided to order new cubicles and chairs; although the alleged dealer had delivered cubicles the chairs he delivered weren’t the same model they chose from the store. On the top of that the dealer had only managed to deliver cubicles and chair but cabinets were still being delivered. If only my friend had decided to buy used cubicles and chairs from a office that was being closed down just two blocks away he could have saved not just money but a lot of time too (which is invaluable by the way) . 

What I am trying to say is that in case of used office furniture there are fewer chances for manufacturing defects hence you don’t have to ask for replacements, which in my opinion saves considerable time.