Furniture industry backlogs lead to boost in resale market

Backlogs successful the furnishings manufacture owed to the COVID-19 pandemic person led to a boost successful the resale marketplace arsenic radical look for ways to get caller furnishings, adjacent if they’re conscionable caller to them.

“Desks, dressers, couches, eating tables, I mean, those are, close now, super-hot, consistently successful our apical hunt terms,” said Natalie Angelillo, the vice president of assemblage and communications for the resale app OfferUp.

The institution precocious enactment retired its 3rd yearly “Recommerce Report,” which recovered astir 23% of radical who bought resale past twelvemonth bought furniture. That's 2nd conscionable down clothing.

And for many, it's astir much than conscionable getting a bully deal.

“If you deliberation astir what goes into making a marque caller couch, let's say, the h2o and the vigor and the waste, there's truthful galore much radical who truly deliberation astir that successful their buying decisions now. Even erstwhile they're not trying to prevention money, they're really trying to amended their footprint,” said Angelillo.

That goes for sellers too. It's amended for the Earth to merchantability aged furnishings and springiness it caller life, alternatively than sending it to the landfill.

And you tin marque immoderate currency portion you're astatine it.