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Selling used furniture, a great way to recycle!

Posted on | March 1, 2010 | 3 Comments

Create a fresh look by getting rid of the old furniture and bringing new (or new-to-you) furniture.  It is easy to sell used furniture, just put a price on, advertise it, and help the new owners load it.
The first step is to decide what you want to move from your space.  Is it the living room suite, that dresser stored in the garage, the toddler’s bed, or almost everything?
Next, look, really look at the pieces.  Are they antique?  Do they have high value?  Do they go together?  Are they the early Salvation Army style, assembled by use and price?
More important, are they in fair or good shape?  Is there a little something you could easily do to make them more attractive?  You know that when you sell your car, you wash and clean the car.  It is the same thing with the furniture, dust it off, polish it up, vacuum the sofa, and make it as clean and attractive as you can.
Even if the items are well-used, price them low and someone may take them home to repair, paint, or recycle to a new use.
Research the price of the pieces you have.  Just go through a used furniture store, check a thrift store, have someone from a consignment shop come by, or call an antique dealer to appraise your furniture.  Then decide what price you want for each piece or as a unit.
Advertising is the most important step when selling used furniture.  A garage sale creates interest, if you want to have one.  Ads for the items can place on free sites on the Internet, in local give-away newspapers, and on bulletin boards at various locations.  Remember, a photo is worth a thousand words and makes people stop and look.
Buyers are looking for people selling used furniture.  Buyers know their money will buy more at a garage sale or from you.  Buyers may haggle over the price or ask for something else to be included.  Be ready for this.  It is easy to come down a few dollars or offer another item to be included instead of the requested piece.  Remember, the purpose is to have the furniture go to a new home and give you space for something different.
After you collect the money, help the new owners load their prizes, the recycled furniture, and wave good-bye.

Create a fresh look by getting rid of the old furniture and bringing new (or new-to-you) furniture.  It is easy to sell used furniture, just put a price on, advertise it, and help the new owners load it.

The first step is to decide what you want to move from your space.  Is it the living room suite, that dresser stored in the garage, the toddler’s bed, or almost everything?

Next, look, really look at the pieces.  Are they antique?  Do they have high value?  Do they go together?  Are they the early Salvation Army style, assembled by use and price?

More important, are they in fair or good shape?  Is there a little something you could easily do to make them more attractive?  You know that when you sell your car, you wash and clean the car.  It is the same thing with the furniture, dust it off, polish it up, vacuum the sofa, and make it as clean and attractive as you can.

Even if the items are well-used, price them low and someone may take them home to repair, paint, or recycle to a new use.

Research the price of the pieces you have.  Just go through a used furniture store, check a thrift store, have someone from a consignment shop come by, or call an antique dealer to appraise your furniture.  Then decide what price you want for each piece or as a unit.

Advertising is the most important step when selling used furniture.  A garage sale creates interest, if you want to have one.  Ads for the items can place on free sites on the Internet, in local give-away newspapers, and on bulletin boards at various locations.  Remember, a photo is worth a thousand words and makes people stop and look.

Buyers are looking for people selling used furniture.  Buyers know their money will buy more at a garage sale or from you.  Buyers may haggle over the price or ask for something else to be included.  Be ready for this.  It is easy to come down a few dollars or offer another item to be included instead of the requested piece.  Remember, the purpose is to have the furniture go to a new home and give you space for something different.

After you collect the money, help the new owners load their prizes, the recycled furniture, and wave good-bye.

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Advice for Buying Used Hotel Furniture

Posted on | February 22, 2010 | No Comments

Used hotel furniture comes in two basic categories. The chain hotel items and the unique items that come from the more unusual hotels, hotels that seem to be a dying breed but this is a fact that you can use in your favor. Nowadays most hotels are part of a chain and obviously when they have used furniture for sale you can be sure you are getting quality goods and they are also an opportunity for mass purchase and resale. You buy a large quantity of all the similar looking items and then sell them off bit by bit, item by item in a large, geographically spread out area. That way you can get a reasonable mark up on each item of maybe 25 to 33.3%, the buyer gets a good deal and you make a decent profit. Because you spread out the areas where you sold each item, each customer does not have to worry about his neighbor having exactly the same table or chair.
Then there are the unique items that come from old hotels that closed up or were taken over by a chain and renovated, their unique furniture sold off to the highest bidder. These items are definitely worth looking for and the older the items and the hotels from whence they come, the better.
There is definitely a great example in the Nickerbocker hotel in Los Angeles. This hotel is now a home for seniors but is also the site of some of the most dramatic incidents in the city’s history. Rudolf Valentino was a regular at the hotel’s bar till his death in 1926 and apparently afterward as well. That is right the hotel is a haunting hotspot and not just ordinary ghosts either. Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe were also providers of custom at the hotel bar and if you believe some people, Marilyn still likes to pop in occasionally. The place has had so many haunting stories associated with it for so long that on the Halloween of 1936, the widow of Houdini held her tenth séance on its roof for contacting her late husband. Now how would you have liked to get your hands on some of the items that hotel was selling.
It is always good if you are selling, buying, or investing in antique or used hotel furniture to always be clued up on the history of the establishment you are looking into doing business with. Haunted, old, and historic hotels are great for business when buying and selling its used furniture and when you know where to look you are sure to get the gems of the collection. All you need to do is the research.

Used hotel furniture comes in two basic categories. The chain hotel items and the unique items that come from the more unusual hotels, hotels that seem to be a dying breed but this is a fact that you can use in your favor. Nowadays most hotels are part of a chain and obviously when they have used furniture for sale you can be sure you are getting quality goods and they are also an opportunity for mass purchase and resale. You buy a large quantity of all the similar looking items and then sell them off bit by bit, item by item in a large, geographically spread out area. That way you can get a reasonable mark up on each item of maybe 25 to 33.3%, the buyer gets a good deal and you make a decent profit. Because you spread out the areas where you sold each item, each customer does not have to worry about his neighbor having exactly the same table or chair.

Then there are the unique items that come from old hotels that closed up or were taken over by a chain and renovated, their unique furniture sold off to the highest bidder. These items are definitely worth looking for and the older the items and the hotels from whence they come, the better.

There is definitely a great example in the Nickerbocker hotel in Los Angeles. This hotel is now a home for seniors but is also the site of some of the most dramatic incidents in the city’s history. Rudolf Valentino was a regular at the hotel’s bar till his death in 1926 and apparently afterward as well. That is right the hotel is a haunting hotspot and not just ordinary ghosts either. Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe were also providers of custom at the hotel bar and if you believe some people, Marilyn still likes to pop in occasionally. The place has had so many haunting stories associated with it for so long that on the Halloween of 1936, the widow of Houdini held her tenth séance on its roof for contacting her late husband. Now how would you have liked to get your hands on some of the items that hotel was selling.

It is always good if you are selling, buying, or investing in antique or used hotel furniture to always be clued up on the history of the establishment you are looking into doing business with. Haunted, old, and historic hotels are great for business when buying and selling its used furniture and when you know where to look you are sure to get the gems of the collection. All you need to do is the research.

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