Used File Cabinets

When you are putting together a home office or even an office outside of the home, you might be considering looking at used file cabinets in order to save money. Buying quality used office furniture is a great way to save money, but a lot of care needs to be taken so that you don’t end up spending more in the long run. Buying used cabinets for your files can be a tricky matter. On the whole, office file cabinets tend to be well-used and abused. When you’re shopping for file cabinets that are previously owned, you need to inspect them carefully to make sure that they’re not too worse for wear.

Where should you look for used file cabinets? There are a variety of choices, any of which can provide you with what you’re looking for. One option is to look for “going out of business” sales. Often a business will invite the public right into its offices on certain days to purchase their used equipment, and you can end up finding a great deal on file cabinets. One drawback to this is that the file cabinets in a business office are almost always going to be metal, so if you’re looking for wood cabinets, this probably isn’t the way for you to go. Another drawback is that the cabinets might be more used than you want, especially if there were a lot of people in the office using them.

Believe it or not, estate sales are also a good place to find used file cabinets, and you’ll find more of a variety. If the people having the estate sale had a home office, it’s more likely that their file cabinets will be more decorative. It’s also more likely that they haven’t been as well-used then if they were in an outside business office. It’s not unusual to find file cabinets, both wood and metal, in an estate sale that look almost new, but pay half or less of what they originally cost.
 
You can also jump online to look for good used file cabinets. Craigslist.com is arguably the most popular classified ad site on the internet, and is an excellent place to look for file cabinets. Most of the time people will include pictures when selling furniture through this site. If you see file cabinets listed and there is no picture, you can email the seller and ask them to send you some. You can narrow down the search area so that if you find what you’re looking for you can easily pick the cabinet up, and sometimes you can even get people to deliver if you pay extra.
 
Online auction sites are also great places to find used file cabinets, though you want to be careful to look at shipping costs if you find what you think is a good deal. One thing that you can do if you’re looking on a site like ebay.com for file cabinets is narrow your search to only those items where the seller provides free shipping. Either that, or know what normal shipping and handling costs are so that you can be sure you’re being charged fairly.