The San Deigo used office furniture company has recently sent its website live, offering companies the chance to buy top name brands such as Steelcase and Herman Miller for a fraction of the price than it is to buy it new.

Would you have second hand office furniture in your place of work? EBay has proven that your junk is another mans treasure, and gave a shot in the arm to the second hand market by bringing it up to date. So, maybe the quesiton shouldnt be why have second hand office furniture -but why not have it. Once the furniture is received, it is rebuilt if necessary and cleaned by the companies repair team, ensuring its just as good as new. You can also visit the show room if you want to see the condition of the products you are buying.

If you didnt tell your staff that the furniture was second hand, they wouldnt even notice, a placebo type effect may take place. The repair crew makes sure the item is in top condition when it goes for re-sale, so why wouldnt your staff assume it was new furniture unless you told them? Be careful, as staff could start accusing you of being ‘cheap’ and staff refusing to use it. Theres always been a stigma attached to buying second hand goods- too cheap to want to buy something new, it wont work properly. EBay has slowly eroded this image, but some people will still choose paying extra and getting a new copy rather than go for a good quality second hand version. If it makes you happy, then fine, but dont turn up a top quality second hand product through snobbishness.

Is this the beginning of a new niche market? As the credit crunch starts to really take effect and cut companies spending in half, we could see more of them going second hand on their office furniture. If the items are in as good a condition than when they were bought, then this could really take off.

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