This is a great shop depending on what you're looking for and if they have it at that moment. I found a great, comfortable Herman Miller office chair! There are desk chairs, waiting room chairs, filing cabinets, desks and a large variety of office stuff. They didn't have any monitors at the time I went (technically electronics), but they did have desks. You do have to look around as its a warehouse of office furniture. They're open Thurs-through Sunday. They accept cash, checks and credit cards. I tried to give some cash to support this small business. In the past I've donated office furniture and am pleased to now find something new for my office! Enter in through the long driveway and go all the way to the back to park. It looks like a warehouse because it is! Not a retail storefront... read more

Berkeley Outlet - Office Equipment Near Me - Berkeley, California

First went to this place in the mid-90s. It was in a different t location, then. Still has amazing service, great prices and good finds.

Driving up to the location it doesn't look all that legit. Tucked away in the corner of a bunch of wearhouses it confused me for a bit. I was wondering if I was even in the right place. It was, but it's important to note that you might also do a double take before approaching it. Also bring cash or your checkbook. Don't expect them to take your credit or debit card. If you do so be prepared to have to make another trip. Anyways so my girlfriend hates her desk and chair setup. So we decided to hunt for a office chair, and standing desk. Every place we tried out was a lot of dissapointment. Every new chair we looked at from Office Depot to some of the higher end office supply stores was $200-800 and none of them were all that good. A pneumatic desk was $400-600. They had far superior chairs for $90-125. Yes they were used, but man almost everything they had there was a steal! Also found a pnuematic desk for $250 instead of the higher end. You might have to look around and really hunt and peck to find what works for you as things can be scattered around the place, but everything there was quite well priced, and look around as a few of the items are really tucked away/hidden. read more

I was so surprised when I walked into this place. I was expecting a used office furniture store but instead found a junkyard. An overpriced junkyard at that. Rusty metal, stained fabrics, the smell of old. Look people, these aren't classic cars here, ripe for restoration. This is mostly landfill. Amazed by the high reviews I'm seeing here in Yelp. read more

Berkeley Outlet - Seventy five dollars for a rusty old file cabinet? You've gotta be kidding me! - Office Equipment Near Me - Berkeley, California

Wow..wish I could have done business with Berkeley Outlet, but while the web site said open, and the door was unlocked, and it was Thursday, the proprietor said they are closed. Wow..I saw 2 other people walk away as well. So warning..call to make sure they are open so you don't have to drive 22 miles like I did to find them CLOSED_ UGH!! read more

They were rude ASF a few called me fagget, and I stink. I'm neither but I'm sure someone came in and told them to say that. In an professional environment they shouldn't play follow the leader read more

This is legit and found more than expected. Purchased a used Ergonomic office chair. I love wandering West Berkeley warehouses but did not go there to wander. Went there to buy an excellent used, expensive but sold inexpensively ergonomic chair for sitting in many hours a week. Check this out. https://store.haworth.com/products/zody-mesh-office-chair we purchased way under MSRP of $1155.00. Limited hours open, plenty of chairs like the one we chose. Help provided by Ben, He demonstrated how to operate this chair with many features for adjusting. If you see Ben, tell him Jim I said Hello. read more

Sometimes you just wander down an alleyway and you think to yourself, "Man, I gotta be batshit insane to be walking down this creepy ol' alleyway... hey what is this...?" Then suddenly you find a gem in the corner of nowhere, that has the exact thing you're looking for, for the most reasonable price ever. If one of those things are old office furniture (some even designer brands), vintage ship-grade quality desks, flat drawers, old rulers, typewriters, IBM-era organizers, or giant wooden slabs, then it's your lucky day. Owner is a chill, he just kinda sits there while you peruse in archeological fashion. read more

The Berkeley Outlet is where old and still usable office furniture goes to die, and then to revive to live another day. I bought a nice solid wood desk here years ago, and it's still with me for 5 AM teleconferences, computer work, writing, and as a place to stuff possessions within the multiple solid wood drawers. The only thing that could ever separate us would be my Father's Roll Top. Berkeley Outlet is not the easiest place to find down on this end of Heinz Avenue. If you're not careful, you might end up at the Cal Shakes Compound (practically next door) and get a part to go along with your prop. But once you're here, wandering around and imagining your relatively inexpensive office opportunities is worth the journey, the "price" of admission, and learning the history of what is contained within. read more

Really cool that this place exists. Great hub for office furniture we use. I came in for a filing cabinet, very satisfied. Good selection. Great prices. read more

Why have I lived here all this time and just went to this place for the first time?! Hidden treasure for sure. As Paul, the owner says, he's a hoarder and in this case it's where all office supplies go after their original use. IKEA is out of all desks in these corona times, but got a great sit/stand desk here for good price. Owner is very sweet and Hubert helpful creatively loading the desk into our small Prius. Highly recommend this place. read more

this is the real deal. first of all. it's been around for 30, 40, 50 years. not sure how long, but it's a berkeley landmark. there is absolutely no reason to go anywhere else for used office furniture. that is unless you want to pay twice as much. ben is wonderful, so helpful. i hope he carries on the business. the only catch, make sure you note their hours. now only thursday through satuurday. i wish they would go back to their 4 days a week hours. read more

Great products at a very reasonable price. This place has an amazing selection of designer office furniture at low prices.

We found the perfect filing cabinets at Berkeley Outlet today. The owner was very helpful and had many options. We paid $180 total for two filing cabinets that would have cost over $200 each online. read more

If you're looking for cheap, quality office furniture, come to Berkeley Outlet. If you want a visual tour of the last twenty years of liquidated companies, come to Berkeley Outlet. I've been a couple times over the years, most recently to get a used office chair for my wife. The model retails around $700, we picked it up for $170. Yay. Coming here is a better use of time than Craigslist if you're looking for common office furniture (chairs, shelves, tables, etc.). The warehouse is pretty big and you'll have a lot to choose from. Even if you don't have a specific buy in mind, there's plenty of fun stuff here. Boxes of slides of NASA presentations. Body armor. Shelves and shelves of lab equipment. Fun times! read more

If you've struggled to meet your office needs at Urban Ore or on Craigslist, you need to check this place out. Brand new fancy office chairs and ergo desks? Yup. Retro desks and emeco-style chairs? Yup. Crazy old brushed aluminum science cabinet I wish I could fit in my house? Yes. Go past the Metropolitan Baking sign to the giant warehouse. Admire the Vizlas. As with all used furniture places, selection will vary, but this is one of the few places where I've found both quality and duplicates, for when you want things to match. read more

I was looking for an office chair for my wife and I saw this place on Yelp near where I was and I decided to stop in and see what they had. Be prepared. No really, brace yourself. It's like a horror movie set. There was a guy in the middle of a warehouse with a hose cleaning out barrels filled with who knows what, surrounded by mounds of ancient office furniture. How ancient you ask? I'm guessing somewhere between the roaring twenties and the Korean War. I think I almost tripped over Radar's desk from MASH. The few chairs they had were hysterically over-prices, like $120 for clearly leaning to one side vinyl chair. You would even $5 for this thing at a yard sale. Everything was like that. In really bad shape and priced to never sell. Who buys anything from this place? Run, run to Ikea. read more

I've been to Berkeley Outlet a couple of times now, but this is the first time I've bought anything. They have an interesting selection of used office furniture; everything from ten cents a piece hanging files (not apparently used, but not boxed either) to a modern walnut credenza, to hard-to-come-by flat files/map cases, and a bank of cobalt blue lockers that might have made charming storage in a tween boy's room. There was even a nice vintage microscope (which I'm pretty certain was from UC Berkeley; it was marked with a library name.) Once I saw some large thick glass lab doohickeys which looked like they'd have made really interesting terrariums! I found exactly what I was looking for, a small two-drawer black file cabinet on casters. It was $90, less than I'd have paid for a new one. They helped me load it into my car. One great thing, the stuff is all scrubbed when it comes in, so you know what you're getting is clean. Also, they can make keys on the premises, so can provide you with multiple keys for your file cabinet if needed. Only giving four stars because it's a little tricky to find, and parking is very limited, with several of the parking spaces marked "only" for other business that share the lot. There are three resident dogs, one of whom barked as I approached the shop; I found this a little off-putting since I'm slightly canine-phobic. But once in, it actually took me a while to realize that there were three of them, they are so unobtrusive. read more

After years of sitting at the computer in a bad chair, I finally decided to get a real chair. So I looked at Office Depot and found garbage. Then I remembered that years ago my mother had gotten some furniture at "that place on Heinz," so I googled used office furniture in Berkeley and found the Berkeley Outlet. On their website they say they have Herman Miller and Steelcase chairs for $60 to $150, so I looked at their respective websites and found fancy but expensive office chairs. I looked on Craigslist and found that most similar chairs are listed at higher prices, so I decided to check out Berkeley Outlet. I stopped by just before closing to look at chairs. They had a whole bunch of Herman Miller chairs with fixed arms for $60, and they had a number of Steelcase chairs for $95 to $130. I tried them all. When I sat down in a Steelcase with a high back and adjusted it a little bit, it felt great. I immediately decided to buy it. I also decided to buy a used 46" x 60" chair mat for $15 after the guy who was working there (the owner?) showed me office depot's offerings for five times the price on his computer. I asked if the chair was returnable. He said I could return it in the same condition within 30 days. That shows a true understanding of how long it might take for someone to find out if a chair is right for him or her. I brought it home, set it up, adjusted the chair and looked for it online. I found that my chair is the "Criterion" model, it's adjustable in eight ways, the high back model goes for $749 and they've sold over six million of 'em! Pleased with my purchase, I settled back into it, only to start to smell a perfume like fragrance. I sniffed the chair a little and realized that the arm rests smelled of perfume -- gross! I tried getting it out with soap and water, then baking soda and water, and finally an orange based oxy cleaner, but the smell wouldn't go away. Since my favorite scent is "unscented," and my elbows smelled like perfume, I returned the chair in hopes of exchanging it for an identical chair. When I got there to return it, I looked around a little and was somewhat distressed to see that the other similar chairs had been sold. The owner (?) sniffed the armrests and was surprised to smell the perfume. He then pulled out two spare armrests for my approval and apologized for some superficial scratches on them, but they were hardly noticeable and didn't bother me a bit. Then he put the chair on a workbench, removed the smelly ones and replaced them. It was a bit of a pain to return the chair, but I didn't smell the perfume in the shop, so I'm sure the owner (?) didn't either. I'm sure he wouldn't have sold it with the smelly armrests if he had known about them. I am now a happy customer, sitting in my wonderful new (to me) chair typing this review without pain! I'm also pleased to be reusing something which has much life left in it, and I'm glad I purchased it somewhere other than a big box retailer, so the money (only $130, but still...) is more likely to stay in the community I love and have lived in all of my life -- Berkeley!!! Sorry for the long chair story. Here's why you should shop here: you need high quality used office furniture -- which is better and priced cheaper than the crap they sell at office depot -- along with good customer service. They've been around for years and I imagine business is just fine for the Berkeley Outlet, but I can't help wondering if they might do even better if they had "office furniture" in their name. I found them easily on google, but they didn't come up on yelp under a search for "used office furniture." Perhaps they will now. :-) Now, I'm going to get up from my wonderful new chair, put the computer to sleep and get a life! Have a nice day! :-) read more

This place is a gem. They have good quality used office furniture at good prices and excellent service. We have bought 5 or so lateral filing cabinets there, as well a nice wood etagere (or whatever you'd call it) that we use for holding some plants and fruit basket (5 feet tall, 2'x2' shelves, several of them). They don't do delivery themselves, but have a list of people they recommend, and we had a good experience with that. They will hold furniture until your delivery person can pick it up. Definitely the first place I'd try, and it's a nice local business I feel good about buying from. read more

Found this great vintage Steelcase filing cabinet for $120. 1/4 as much as some new Office Depot thing made of tin. Things here are cleaned and repaired before being sold. The nicest people and the absolutely best kept office furniture secret out there. read more

mom just phoned Berkeley Outlet to ask which delivery services they recommend and contact info, not realizing they would not open for amother 10 minutes. (she had a very good experience transacting with them years before.) the man she spoke with answered right away, was friendly, helpful, had immediate info, and did not rush the call. superb, and refreshing! read more

I was in the market for a vintage Steelcase desk for my home office. After searching around at consignment stores and at the Alameda Point Antiques Fair, I finally stumbled across this place. I felt like I'd hit the jackpot! They had an entire warehouse row of Steelcase desks. Different sizes, different configurations. All in great condition and all had working locks with keys, etc. The prices were so good, I ended up buying two desks... one for me and one for my son. I couldn't take the desks home myself, so they recommended a delivery service who, not only delivered the desks, but moved them upstairs into my office. So easy! I cannot say enough good things about Berkeley Outlet. read more

Spouse and I had an excellent experience here. We needed to look at filing cabinets, and right away found 2 matching filing cabinets that would normally sell new for a few hundred dollars each, and we purchased for just under $100 each. There are so many office supplies at Berkeley Outlet, from pen holders and reams of paper to chairs and laptop trays, it's worth going here to get a great deal on office suppliers before going to Office Depot. read more

This place was so weird. Very used furniture. Like Urban Ore for office spaces. If you want to save money on the odd bits and pieces of an office, like staplers and coffee carafes this place could be useful. I wanted to buy an ergonomic office chair-- this was not the place. Better to come here to find many old fashioned Naugahyde waiting room chairs. read more

Great price on a small conference table in excellent condition. Great service:- they brought out all the laminates for me to see the options, installed my choice of pedestal, and loaded it into my SUV. This place is a treasure trove for chairs and desks, too. read more

Looking to create your own Mad Men set or just love the clean elegance of vintage office furniture? Berkeley Outlet has the gems from Steel Case to Knoll. They also have glass-front cases look fantastic with a variety of aesthetics. The stock changes often and the staff is very knowledgeable. read more

I picked up an office chair for the wife today at Berkeley Outlet and I was able to pick one up for $30!!!! The chair was still in really good condition and it definitely was a bargain. Just a heads up if you're looking for a mesh chair give them a call first those types of chairs usually sell the same day they receive them read more

After buying a great chair for a great price at Berkeley Outlet I felt the need to testify! Incredible selection and great prices! I can't imagine ever going to another Office Depot type store again for any office furniture! The people are incredible friendly, fun and so down to earth. Look for Melissa...she is the best! I kinda wanted to just stay and hang out there. It feels like a such a cool secret find...wish I needed a conference table. read more

I have been going to Berkeley Outlet for upwards of 10 years (maybe it has been 20 - a really long time!). Their prices are great and so is the quality of their product and their service; I recommend them highly and to all! read more

Pssst. This has a sweet 'secret' location Heinz avenue. Look through the tall windows in the back and you can see across the bay to the City. We love to ride our bikes down the Bike BLVD, down toward the Bay...Travel down to the end of Heinz Avenue past the colorful Aquatic Park development and take the last right past Cal Shakes to Berkeley Outlet. Browse around the office furniture, filing cabinets, lockers, tables, chairs, book cases, clocks.... and even look through the miscelleneous stuff like DVD movies and CD music for dirt cheap. Spoke with the friendly folk who work there, interesting old building has had movie sets and other activities in it. We bought stainless steel pieces here, locking steel case drawers and other neat stuff. Have nice wooden chairs and comfy office chairs as well. We came back with our vehicle and picked up our treasures later... Nice way to spend some time in Berkeley. read more