Getting rid of office furniture….

..who’d have thought it would be so hard!?!

We are moving to a serviced/furnished office.

Just before COVID (superb timing) we bought about £15k worth of desks, chairs and lockable draw unit thingies. So hardly used 🙁

Would either like a nominal amount, or for them to go to charity/good home etc.

Tried the usual marketplace/ebay options with no joy

Anyone got any ideas??

Where are you ?

British Heart Foundation refurb / sell a lot of 2nd hand furniture, local hospice shop does too, Teesside Hospice collects (on Teesside) and St. Davids foundation in Newport used to take some. Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul also help people with furniture and collect in some areas.
https://www.bhf.org.uk/shop/donating-goods/book-furniture-collection-near-me

British Heart Foundation is pretty good for furniture. They have bigger, out of town shops and a collection service. We have a couple of specialist homeless charities here that are OK for that sort of thing too, might just need to ring round locally.

Surprised they haven’t sold on ebay/facebook. That sort of stuff tends to go quick. Maybe there is a post lockdown WFH surplus.

Where are you ?

Brighton.

Have you tried advertising them as drawers rather than draws? 😁

Plenty of folk on here wanting office chairs but I doubt you’ll want to sell them in 1s and 2s.

BHF is a good shout.

Good luck finding it a new home but I fear you may struggle.

Due to everyone WFH there’s a massive surplus of office furniture out there right now. I did a few weeks working for a clearance company in January emptying an old DWP site (used to house well over 1000 staff) and they used to just call a local company to take the decent stuff and would get paid for it. This year there wasn’t a chance and we spent most of the time taking lorries full of decent desks, pedestals and chairs (with a lot of it brand new!) to the commercial tip. We tried selling the new stuff on Gumtree, FB Marketplace and Shpock with no bites whatsoever. Charities didn’t want to know as they were full of donations already.

thanks @reluctantjumper i feared that might be the case.

Tried charities like BHF but they are not interested. Unfortunalty although these desks are very good quality, they bolt together in banks with heavy duty cable routing, so not really WFH material.

I’m supprised the chairs won’t shift assuming they are better than £50 argos specials and not covered in drool.
Might be advertising to the wrong market?

What chairs are they ? Asking as I’m after one or two and could go fro a trip to sunny Brighton?

There are auction companies for getting rid of commercial stuff.
Never bought or sold from them so don’t know fully how it works , but get emails regularly showing what they are auctioning. I think the winner comes and picks it up from wherever it is located.

https://www.bpiauctions.com/

We have a local thrift group on face book. You won’t believe what people will take, as long as it’s in decent condition and has life left in the object.

Get in touch with Greg at Rype Office, let him know Duane sent you – they may be able to help.

https://www.rypeoffice.com/

I work for a small charity in Leeds with tired office furniture that could do with an upgrade. I fear the logistics may be a challenge, but happy to explore if you got an ad you can share with photos/specs etc?

What chairs are they ? Asking as I’m after one or two and could go fro a trip to sunny Brighton?

Get in touch with Greg at Rype Office, let him know Duane sent you – they may be able to help.

https://www.rypeoffice.com/

Great thanks Duane, this could be a great last resort. I’m just really keen they don’t go to landfill.

I work for a small charity in Leeds with tired office furniture that could do with an upgrade. I fear the logistics may be a challenge, but happy to explore if you got an ad you can share with photos/specs etc?

I’m WFH today but in the office tomorrow so will get some better details to you then.

That’s a point.

On previous “what office chair?” threads the recommendation for 2ndhnd.com crops up a lot. They’ve got to source their nearly-new stock from somewhere, maybe it could be worth giving them a call?

my other half is heavily involved in this charity –
Downe Activity Centre
We’re trying to raise £2m to buy this place off the Scout association to prevent it being sold to developers.
We’ve hoping to get it re-opened later this summer and would love a few chairs and cabinets..
We’re in Orpington so getting down to Brighton not too hard..

.who’d have thought it would be so hard!?!

When we downsized our office most of it ended up in a skip – we couldn’t give it away. A lot was in very good nick as well. I took a couple of metal lab benches with integrated mains supply / ESD surfaces home for the workshop as no one wanted those either.

I’d be happy to come down to Brighton for a couple of nice chairs and a desk if they are free