1. Save Money:
You can purchase nearly new office furniture products
for as low as 25 cents on the dollar. These pieces, for the
most part, have been in service for only a few years and there may
be a scuff or two (nothing more than you might do in the first
several months of use). Even new furniture has problems.
2. Buy Quality:
Good quality, previously-owned office furniture has
withstood the initial test of time and is still mechanically and
materially sound. When you purchase new, the warranty offered may be
a good indication of the inherent quality. When you purchase used,
brand-name, quality office furniture, you have proof.
3. Minimal Depreciation:
When you buy new office furniture, you can expect its
resale value to depreciate to 25% or less of its original cost. When
you purchase quality used office furniture, its value actually
increases based on the cost of comparative new furniture and its
resale value may remain as high as 75% of what you paid. Purchasing
good quality used furniture is a much better investment than
purchasing "cheap" new furniture.
4. It's The Ecologically Correct
Thing To Do: Compared to recycling aluminum
cans, plastic bags and newspapers, making use of previously-owned
office furniture is a much better deal for our planet. When you
dispose of wood furniture, it winds up in land-fills. Steel
furniture must be disassembled before recycling and the costs of
recovery are prohibitive. If the furniture can be re-used - and, in
most cases, office furniture has a useful life of over twenty years
- not only do you reduce land-fill usage and recycling costs, you
are getting a product of very high intrinsic value. You will be
preserving our forests and natural resources, protecting our
atmosphere, saving energy, and saving valuable land-fill (and
warehouse) space.
5. Fast Delivery:
Except for the low-priced "commodity" commercial
furniture available from mass-merchants and discounters, office
furniture is made to order. Fine office furniture generally takes 6
to 12 weeks to produce. Used furniture is on hand and ready for
immediate delivery. In most cases, it can be shipped a day or two
after you place your order. If you want it refurbished, add a week
or two at most.