Other reviews, including my first one, are mostly from the standpoint of buyer. My husband and I have now used Recycled Room from the standpoint of seller over the last year. I update this review to say our experiences with them in that role have been very good ones.
SUCCESSFUL SALES
Recycled room has sold every item we've consigned with them; from custom framed art work to Pottery Barn home accents to Buck's County purchased antique carts to high end brand custom upholstered furniture. As to the buyers who have reviewed this store to say price points are high, I chuckle in the context of realizing it is all perspective.
As seller I'd say whomever bought the Mitchell Gold - Bob Williams Zondra knife edged pillow back and seat settee with the Kravet Couture upholstery on it that we had nearly $2,000 invested in at purchase six years ago and was nearly new for condition scored a great bargain at the under $300 sale price.
Same for whomever bought the $250 lamp with shade for thirty bucks.
Or the pair of custom upholstered, interior designer refurbished French country "one of a kind" arm chairs for about $150 each...that didn't even cover a fraction of the cost of the original fabrics alone.
The list goes on. We are very happy the items sold. We hope buyers realize good values for the quality when they buy through Recycled Room.
SUPPORTING A WELL RUN SMALL BUSINESS
The fun of reselling items through Recycled Room is the people who run the store and work there are so nice to deal with. And we know our once loved but no longer a fit things are going to new homes with people who made the effort to shop (I hate shopping so it seems effort to me) and probably appreciate the 'find' (don't we all when it happens). Plus, we help support a small business that creates jobs for local people and is being well run and where pride of ownership shows.
Here I'll admit we "cheated on" Recycled Room to consign a couple of designer furniture pieces at another store in the area when we were advised by local furniture store staff that this other resale store would deliver the highest sales price to us given their audience of buyers. Which may be true, our items did sell for a higher price than I imagine Recycled Room would have assigned to the furniture. But the other business was difficult to work with and their communication processes were poor. We are much happier sellers working with Recycled Room. Live and learn. This is our 'go to' place.
THE DRILL
If you want to consign here, the drill is provide photo(s) and description of your item and the owner will let you known if they can consign it and when they will have room in the store to do that.
PICK - UP
We got spoiled in our previous home that the local consignment place we worked with did free pick up. We haven't noticed any consignment places in the Boise area who offer that service. So if you're not delivering your own items, plan on adding the cost of transport to your cost of sale here, just like any other consignment place. The good news is the pick up guy they recommend has a reasonable rate (as example, $70 for a pair of upholstered arm chairs he picked up today) and he's typically available to pick up whenever it is you need him and a really nice guy to boot.
PS - LOOK BEHIND THE FILTER
For reasons I know not, Yelp has behind the filter three glowing reviews for Recycled Room. In reading them they all seem bonafide to me. To take a look ...click on the gray text for currently not recommended reviews... read more