I literally walked into my conference room chairs and table at the local version of the Goodwill -- they were offloading them from a truck and had just picked them up. They also had some desks and so forth in the truck. The woman who runs the place was mumbling to herself about it. So I asked her what she wanted for the chairs and she said she would sell me whatever was in the truck for a flat price and deliver it, too if I would take it right then. Nowhere to put it apparently. So I took it and what I did not need I sold off on the local version of ebay.
The office chairs I got from an auction site: a large office went bankrupt and flooded the market with upscale secondhand furniture. However they appear, it seems that the adage "People with no money need to be prepared to put time in instead" appears to apply, at least for me. I went to the local Goodwill equivalent every week for a long time, until they knew me and knew more or less what I wanted. Nowadays they call me if something is coming in and I am talking to them about setting up a page on my website to notify people about things coming in -- because my website gets visited by starters and businesses in transition. The people at the auction site sent me an email about the auction because I had been contacting them regularly. Some of it is just pure dumb luck; but in my experience pure dumb luck happens more often when I am working at something. Opportunities appear as they are seized. :-) Jeannine On Feb 21, 10:53 pm, Ann Kingman <[email protected]> wrote: > We're in the process of putting together a budget for the initial furnishing > of our space. > We are hung up on chairs. > I think good office chairs are very important, and probably key for member > retention. However, the cost of these chairs is freaking me out a bit. It's > not so bad when you think about buying one, but we're looking at probably 20 > to start, between the conference room and work desks. > > Any recommendations for sourcing? I hate to cheap out here, but I also don't > want this to be the thing that makes the space an unworkable concept. > > Thanks, > Ann > CoWork508 (right now just a concept) > Attleboro, MA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
