Cheap home office equipment?

Horace

£200 for a whiteboard is jolly expensive. There are cheaper ones out there, I know that I found one for someone and he ended up paying around £100 but it is portable and you can use it as a support for flip charts too. Google is your friend.

Mistral001

snowman2 wrote: »

I use local second hand office supplies shops. Every town I have lived in has had one nearby and I have bought filing cabinets at £40, desks at £50 and I got a load of office chairs that looked as good as new but O2 threw out when they moved offices.

A found one of these shops about four years after I started. They are like gold dust. People who know about them, keep them a secret as they do not want to tell competitors. Many of these types of shops do not advertise as they usually open for a short while in disused industrial units. I found mine by accident and when it closed down, it took me a long time to find another. Their prices are usually just a fraction of the retail value (25% to 40%).

Also, Viking used to have some good offers on from time to time. I have not used them for a while as I have bought most of my furnature, but I remember getting a brand new "executive" chair from them for £35 delivered to the door, which I thought was very good value.

snowman2_2

I get my chairs from these kind of shops as they are good value and I get to sit in them first. I got a few that were used by O2 and you could hardly tell they were 2nd hand, excellent quality and comfortable.

paulwf

Mistral001 wrote: »

A found one of these shops about four years after I started. They are like gold dust. People who know about them, keep them a secret as they do not want to tell competitors. Many of these types of shops do not advertise as they usually open for a short while in disused industrial units. I found mine by accident and when it closed down, it took me a long time to find another. Their prices are usually just a fraction of the retail value (25% to 40%).

Also, Viking used to have some good offers on from time to time. I have not used them for a while as I have bought most of my furnature, but I remember getting a brand new "executive" chair from them for £35 delivered to the door, which I thought was very good value.

It is weird how Viking can undercut the second hand places for office chairs even though the warehouses have them piled high. I think Viking must use them as a loss leader or something.

Mistral001

paulwf wrote: »

It is weird how Viking can undercut the second hand places for office chairs even though the warehouses have them piled high. I think Viking must use them as a loss leader or something.

I think you are right. Many of their other items are just about the same as the high street.

They used to be generally cheaper than the high street, but I have found that the high street office equipment/stationery prices have come down quite a lot in the last few years because of ebay and online shopping.

I just looked at their website and I see they have a similar chair to the one I bought for £35 maybe 10 years ago now selling at - you guessed it £35.