Refurbished Office Furniture
Quality office furniture is readily available from a number of sources, such as large office superstores, online suppliers, the traditional Mom and Pop office stores still doing business in towns across the country and even in the want ad weekly newspapers that can be purchased at grocery and drug stores. And more and more businesses are offering refurbished office furniture that has been made to look almost like new for a fraction of the original purchase price. Of course, the words quality can be relative terms, and not all office furnishings are made equally. A person may be able to buy a used forty year old filing cabinet made by a high quality manufacturer that looks better and operates more smoothly than a five year old used filing cabinet from a lesser brand. If a person is considering the purchase of either refurbished office furniture or quality office furniture that is new, what are some considerations to be pondered? What is important to the buyer?
Few people would ever start off with the intention of buying workspace furniture for a new venture or a totally new office makeover that makes the old workspace look worse than it did originally. If a furnishings purchase makes a business go from looking like the inside of a barn to the inside of a WW1 battleship, it probably was not a well thought out decision. Unless the business is into selling WW1 battleships! "Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing praises unto his name, for it is pleasant!" (Psalm 135:3) Take the retired professor down the street for example.
The man has decided to open a home work space to direct a new business of selling motorized roller skates that only go backwards. In the professor's own genius way the man is convinced that American kids have not been challenged enough mentally, and that if the students wear a pair of his weird skates, they will have to think ahead like never before! The man believes parents will financially reward his backward thinking with overwhelming purchases. His quandary is in whether or not to buy new quality office furniture or find refurbished office furniture because the man's dear wife has informed the professor that no old raggedy looking stuff will come into her house. The other part of the quandary is that the professor is as tight with a dollar as the lid on a new pickle jar.
The professor decided the best way to take care of these issues was to take his wife along to find a desk, desk chair, and two filing cabinets. The search began at several stores that advertised quality office furniture for sale, and indeed the stores did have the items that were sought. The desk that the man preferred was a basic metal desk with three drawers and cost two hundred and fifty dollars. The wife said no way would a plain metal desk go in the house, and besides, she liked the fourteen hundred dollar cherry executive desk. That made the professor choke when the price was announced. The professor liked the sixty nine dollar desk chair for the desk, and she reminded him that medical bills for the chiropractor the year before had been over three hundred dollars, and more this year were on the way if her husband bought that cheap chair. Trips to two other stores only increased the rhetoric between the couple and so they returned home to argue some more.
Finally, in the middle of the night, the retired gentleman got up and looked online for businesses that refurbished office furniture, and when morning came, set out to visit one. The professor learned that if he could locate an old desk somewhere that had possibilities, the man could have the desk refinished for less than three hundred dollars. Mr. and Mrs. Professor had a grand time over the next few weeks going to auctions, flea markets, and garage sales, looking for a used desk, but they were always all metal in construction, or oddly only in oak or maple wood that did not go with the home decor. One evening, the professor saw an ad in the local paper about a leftover sale after an auction. He drove to the farm where a widow took him to a barn and showed him a massive early 20th century executive desk in cherry that looked like it had been transported by mule train from China and three very old solid wooden filing cabinets that matched. They looked as if they had been kicked by the mule. One hundred fifty dollars for all four pieces.
Secretly, the professor had all four pieces taken to the little company that refurbished office furniture, and a month later, had them delivered to an astonished and thrilled wife who couldn't believe how beautiful the desk matched the other cherry furniture in the library of their home. The professor that he would really milk the secret by taking the month before the furniture arrived to complain daily about how hard it was trying to find furniture to please his wife. He felt rather smug that he would have his quality office furniture and at a much lower price. The wise woman gave him a wink and took him to the garden shed outside, where she unboxed a beautiful, tufted back leather office chair with gas powered height adjustment and an ergonomic seal of approval from a chiropractic society. The moral of the story is that when buying workplace furniture, you can actually be very happy with used furnishinigs as long as the wife approves.
Few people would ever start off with the intention of buying workspace furniture for a new venture or a totally new office makeover that makes the old workspace look worse than it did originally. If a furnishings purchase makes a business go from looking like the inside of a barn to the inside of a WW1 battleship, it probably was not a well thought out decision. Unless the business is into selling WW1 battleships! "Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing praises unto his name, for it is pleasant!" (Psalm 135:3) Take the retired professor down the street for example.
The man has decided to open a home work space to direct a new business of selling motorized roller skates that only go backwards. In the professor's own genius way the man is convinced that American kids have not been challenged enough mentally, and that if the students wear a pair of his weird skates, they will have to think ahead like never before! The man believes parents will financially reward his backward thinking with overwhelming purchases. His quandary is in whether or not to buy new quality office furniture or find refurbished office furniture because the man's dear wife has informed the professor that no old raggedy looking stuff will come into her house. The other part of the quandary is that the professor is as tight with a dollar as the lid on a new pickle jar.
The professor decided the best way to take care of these issues was to take his wife along to find a desk, desk chair, and two filing cabinets. The search began at several stores that advertised quality office furniture for sale, and indeed the stores did have the items that were sought. The desk that the man preferred was a basic metal desk with three drawers and cost two hundred and fifty dollars. The wife said no way would a plain metal desk go in the house, and besides, she liked the fourteen hundred dollar cherry executive desk. That made the professor choke when the price was announced. The professor liked the sixty nine dollar desk chair for the desk, and she reminded him that medical bills for the chiropractor the year before had been over three hundred dollars, and more this year were on the way if her husband bought that cheap chair. Trips to two other stores only increased the rhetoric between the couple and so they returned home to argue some more.
Finally, in the middle of the night, the retired gentleman got up and looked online for businesses that refurbished office furniture, and when morning came, set out to visit one. The professor learned that if he could locate an old desk somewhere that had possibilities, the man could have the desk refinished for less than three hundred dollars. Mr. and Mrs. Professor had a grand time over the next few weeks going to auctions, flea markets, and garage sales, looking for a used desk, but they were always all metal in construction, or oddly only in oak or maple wood that did not go with the home decor. One evening, the professor saw an ad in the local paper about a leftover sale after an auction. He drove to the farm where a widow took him to a barn and showed him a massive early 20th century executive desk in cherry that looked like it had been transported by mule train from China and three very old solid wooden filing cabinets that matched. They looked as if they had been kicked by the mule. One hundred fifty dollars for all four pieces.
Secretly, the professor had all four pieces taken to the little company that refurbished office furniture, and a month later, had them delivered to an astonished and thrilled wife who couldn't believe how beautiful the desk matched the other cherry furniture in the library of their home. The professor that he would really milk the secret by taking the month before the furniture arrived to complain daily about how hard it was trying to find furniture to please his wife. He felt rather smug that he would have his quality office furniture and at a much lower price. The wise woman gave him a wink and took him to the garden shed outside, where she unboxed a beautiful, tufted back leather office chair with gas powered height adjustment and an ergonomic seal of approval from a chiropractic society. The moral of the story is that when buying workplace furniture, you can actually be very happy with used furnishinigs as long as the wife approves.
Refurbished Office Furniture
![]()
Reviewed by Anonymous
on
12:46 PM
Rating:
