Buying used furniture

[88GT]

I need/want a smallish sectional couch. I don't really want to pay close to $1000 for it. It doesn't help that I let a brand new one go had a sticker price of only $400. And it was EXACTLY what I want. So I've been considering buying used.

Except that I have an aversion to purchasing fabric/upholstered items that can't be laundered in hot water in a washing machine. Unless I knew the previous owners and how they lived. And by aversion I mean, nearly and OCD-like complex about it.

Who's bought used couches/chairs before from strangers? Did you sanitize? How so? Should I just wait and save up for the NIB model?

Thanks.

 

[Benny]

I wouldn't buy used furniture unless it was from a friend. That crap weirds me out too.

You could probably buy/rent a streamer to clean it, but who knows what was spilled/unloaded onto that sectional that soaked into the foam cushions.

 

[Mackey]

There's no way I'd bring someone else's furniture into my home. We're talking bed bugs, roaches and other criters, other people smell, germ and coodies.
If you really want to be safe you have to soak it in gasoline and burn it completely. Only then will it be completely safe.

 

[LEaSH]

I'd do a bill of sale in case it was used in a murder or stolen. CYA

 

[Sylvain]

If you get a couch made of leather it's easy to clean and it will be like brand new once you washed it.
You can also find couches made of fabric where you can remove and wash the cushions covers in your washing machine.

 

[black label]

Used furniture is a no go for me, unless it was from somone I knew really well.
Had a friend by a used couch, he steam cleaned it and all the other good stuff he was obsessive about cleanliness. After about 2 months he noticed cockroaches in his house, had an exterminator come out and spray. Couple months later roaches were back, so I asked him if he looked inside the couch, we cut the bottom open and guess what we found, a roach breeding ground. So no buy new

 

[NapalmFTW]

wife and I are in the same boat...... and... we were thinking of the Restore stores.... but... bedbugs, roaches.. .ew seriously, so gross...

No thanks.

:/ We'll be sitting on boxes for a while methinks.

 

[radar44]

Big Lots -- or

Godby's is having a moving sale in Westfield.

 

[mrortega]

Have you ever seen a vehicle going down the interstate, a city street or dusty county road pulling an open trailer with bedding and other furniture, including a couch or chair? Wonder how clean that is. I wouldn't touch used furniture.

 

[starbreather]

Used furniture is like..(I just threw up in my mouth a little)...sleeping with a buddies ex. Not gonna do it, wouldn't be prudent at this juncture.

 

[serf]

In my case it would have to be family (and only certain people). I did watch my brother take a recliner off the curb. That being said ive bought most of my furniture new since i can afford it. I do understand nnot having/wanting to shell out the cash.

 

[Suprtek]

Stainless Steel FTW.

 

[gregkl]

Nothing that has upholstery of any kind. All wood, sure.

 

[mcolford]

We bought from a friend of ours. We know them, they are very very very very very very very clean folks. They cut us a great deal, but I still cleaned the holy heck out of it. As far as stranger? Go to Craigslist, everyone on there is legit, right?

 

[snowrs]

In college ALL of my furniture was used sometimes 3-4 times used including beds, I am still alive and olny have a small amount of cooties.

 

[Dorian Gray]

I agree you never know what could have happened on or near used furniture. If you must buy, bring a blacklight!

 

[sepe]

Used furniture is like..(I just threw up in my mouth a little)...sleeping with a buddies ex. Not gonna do it, wouldn't be prudent at this juncture.

Used furniture and sleeping with a buddy's ex...I'm down with both as I've previously had crabs from both. It isn't that bad.