There are many reasons why you may have old furniture to dispose of. Maybe you are one of the lucky

Old Office Furniture

ones who has upgraded their old furniture by taking advantage of some of the incredible business  furniture deals around at the moment  to rejuvenate your office, in which case you can probably persuade your dealer to take it away at no cost. Otherwise, you may be stuck.

The first thing you have to do is to check whether or not you own the furniture in question! You would be surprised at how many people have forgotten that they financed the purchase of the furniture a few years ago - either through a normal credit agreement or a finance lease – and they don’t realise that the  furniture is not theirs to dispose of. You will need to ask permission of the credit or finance company before you can dispose of it, and they will almost certainly want full payment of any outstanding balances before they would allow that.

When you are sure that you actually own it, you can think about disposal. You probably think that your used furniture has a value, you could be wrong. You start by telephoning local furniture dealers and you probably get nowhere at all. You might just persuade them to take it off your hands for a few hundred pounds – that is, you pay them a few hundred pounds to collect it and dispose of it. The cost of collection and commercial waste disposal is now so high that that they can’t do this as a favour any more.

The next step is to search for ’second hand office furniture’ on the internet, but the response will probably the be same; nobody will buy second hand office furniture if there is no market for it.

Put it on Ebay? Take a look at the amount of  furniture there is already on the site, there is stacks of it and most of it is not moving. You also have the added complication of dismantling and delivering the items, unless of course you say that the buyer collects. There are so many deals around for new office furniture that its hardly worthwhile buying it second hand.

The best option, and one which we also make you feel good about yourself, is to contact the local charities and voluntary organisations. They are always on the lookout for any  furniture – they want to spend their money on their charitable activities, not their internal costs. You may need to pay someone to collect and deliver it, but is probably tax-deductable, and you will feel that you have done some good, at the same time as relieving you of the problem of your old unwanted  furniture.