The city of Minneapolis has one of the most robust economies in the United States. It’s one of the major financial centers of the Midwest, a major transit point for logistical operations and shipping, and home to retail giant Target. Minneapolis is key in industries ranging from publishing to insurance, high tech to agriculture, making it a thriving metropolis economically.
One of the side effects of being a major economic powerhouse is a busy used office furniture market. Browsing through Finance and Commerce or the Star Tribune, you’ll probably find ads for everything from small lots of used office furniture to enormous ones that could kit out an entire office tower. If you pay close attention, you’ll likely find those ads are going unanswered, which is usually the point where businesses start looking for an office furniture liquidator instead of trying to place the sale themselves.
Why do the ads go unanswered? The reality is that getting rid of used office furniture is tricky at best, and often it winds up getting thrown out rather than recycled. While selling your old office furniture yourself is certainly possible, it’s often a task that winds up costing you more money than you’ll get back, and a lot of usable furniture ends up in a landfill when office furniture recycling would have been the better outcome.
The basic problem is that office furniture isn’t really designed to leave the office. Most people, especially in the modern era, have no need for file cabinets, and it can be difficult to sell bulky conference tables and other specially designed furniture. True, people will always need office chairs, but unless you had a very unique office, it’s unlikely that’s all you’re trying to sell, which is exactly the kind of mixed, oversized inventory that corporate office furniture liquidation is built to handle in one pass.
Some try to donate their office furniture for a tax credit, which can be effective, but the needs of a charity matter here too. You’ll need to find a charity that actually needs office furniture in the first place and has the resources to come remove it, and both of those can be a tall order depending on what you have and the nature of the charity. Working with a company that offers formal office decommissioning services sidesteps that guesswork entirely. Some try websites such as Freecycle, but this comes with a different problem beyond losing the tax write off: how much do you want total strangers who saw a posting online coming to your office to poke around your things?
Many, especially if their lease requires them to fully clear out the space, resort to the method any entrepreneur likes least: contacting a “junk” collecting company to remove the furniture, or even paying to have it thrown out. Even this has its drawbacks. Often for a job like this, the removal company will charge extra for the weight, and it’s even worse if you have to pay for a dumpster outright. Pick up, drop off, fuel surcharges, tonnage, you can wind up paying far more to get rid of the furniture than you paid to buy it in the first place, when a commercial furniture liquidation service would have paid you instead.
Is there a better option? In fact, there is: Calling Nationwide Office Liquidators. Nationwide Office Liquidators has the experience and the manpower to price, remove, ship and sell your furniture, taking the job off your hands. Instead of paying for the privilege, you get fair market price for the furniture, saving you time and resources and giving you a little extra for your business. Don’t waste time on old office furniture. Call Nationwide Office Liquidators today.