Service · Office furniture liquidation

Office furniture liquidation in DFW.

Closing your office, downsizing, or relocating? We clear office floors across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex — photo inventory, one point of contact, removal scheduled around your exit timeline. Removal is a paid service, and every piece in your inventory that still has a resale market is credited against the cost, line by line, on the written quote. The liquidation service runs separately from our buying-side business; the intake form on this page goes to a different team and a different scheduler.

Send liquidation inquiry (469) 324-5600

Why liquidation is a separate service

Most of what we do is selling furniture into offices. Liquidation is the opposite direction — furniture leaving an office, with us clearing the floor rather than filling it. Mixing the two intake flows in one queue creates friction: a buying-side team optimizes for response speed and quote accuracy on incoming orders; a liquidation team optimizes for accurate volume estimation, removal logistics, and a written number the customer can hold us to before a truck is scheduled. Different deadlines, different documentation, different handoffs. So liquidation runs separately, with its own intake form and its own scheduling team.

The reason we do liquidation at all is operational symmetry: the pre-owned inventory we sell into DFW offices originates from somebody’s exit. Running our own liquidation service means the inventory pipeline that feeds our pre-owned business is one we control end-to-end — we know how the units were used, how they were stored, how they came out of the building. That is the difference between inspected-inventory pre-owned (what we sell) and the pre-owned chair you find on Facebook Marketplace.

When liquidation is the right service

  • Office closures — entire businesses winding down operations and clearing the floor before lease end. Largest typical engagement size; usually a 60-to-120-day timeline from first call to last truckload removed.
  • Office downsizings — companies consolidating from larger to smaller footprints, with significant excess furniture relative to the new floor’s capacity. Recurring scenario across the Plano-Frisco corridor as corporate footprints rebalance.
  • Relocations into mismatched space — companies moving to new buildings where the existing furniture does not fit (different dimensions, different aesthetic, different operational shape). Relocation liquidation is sometimes paired with a furnishing engagement for the new space, with one project plan covering both directions.
  • Refurnishing with a clean break — companies replacing existing furniture wholesale rather than item-by-item, where the old furniture has to leave the building before the new furniture arrives. Tight timelines; coordination is the deliverable.
  • Tenant-improvement vacate — landlords or tenants required by lease to remove furniture before turning over the space. Often shorter timelines (30 to 60 days) and lower per-piece value, but the engagement is straightforward.

The five-step liquidation engagement

  1. Intake call. A short call by phone or video. Customer describes the situation: building, headcount of departing furniture, rough categories (cubicles, chairs, desks, conference furniture, casegoods, accessories), exit timeline, building access constraints. The next step is an on-site walkthrough so a lead can inspect the project and scope the labor required to remove everything.
  2. On-site walkthrough and photo inventory. A liquidation-team member visits the office, photographs the furniture (every workstation, every chair model, every conference table, plus condition photos of any items requiring close evaluation), and produces a spreadsheet inventory. For larger projects, this takes one to four hours depending on floor size and clutter; for very large projects, it can take a day or two split across multiple visits.
  3. Quote. Based on the photo inventory, we quote the whole job in writing: what the removal costs, and what we credit back for the pieces that still have a resale market. The credit is line-item by category — this many Steelcase Leap chairs at this value each, this many cubicle workstations, this many conference tables — set against take-down, loading, hauling and disposal. Items carrying no credit (broken units, categories with no resale market) are listed separately, so the customer can see which part of the floor is costing money and which part is paying for itself. On a floor with enough of the right inventory the credit covers the job outright and the balance comes back to the customer. Either way the arithmetic is on the page before anyone schedules a truck.
  4. Removal scheduling. Once the customer accepts the quote, we schedule removal in coordination with the customer’s exit timeline. For large engagements, removal happens over multiple truck loads on multiple days; for smaller engagements, one or two truck days handle it. Building access (freight elevator, COI, after-hours if required) coordinates the same way our delivery installs do.
  5. Settlement and follow-through. The job invoices on completion of the final pickup. Where the credit for resalable pieces comes to more than the cost of the removal, the balance is paid out to the customer within 7 to 14 business days, by ACH or check at their preference. Follow-through on any items that needed special handling — manufacturer warranty notes for high-value units, donations of items not bought, recycling certificates for environmental reporting if requested — closes within 30 days.

What still carries value, and what does not

Used office furniture used to be worth real money on its own. Most of it is not anymore: new desks and chairs shipped from overseas now cost less than the labor to take the old ones apart and move them, which is why the buyers who once wrote checks for a floor of cubicles have largely stopped. We would rather say that plainly than quote a payout and walk it back at pickup. The categories that still carry a real credit against the job: premium task seating (Steelcase Leap, Series 1 and 2, Gesture, Amia; Herman Miller Aeron, Embody, Mirra, Cosm; Haworth Zody, Improv; high-tier 9to5 lines we have a market for); cubicle systems from major manufacturers in clean condition with intact electrical and configurable parts; conference tables and conference seating in mainstream sizes (6-to-14 person rectangular, racetrack, or boat-shape); executive desks and casegoods from recognized manufacturers; accent and lounge seating in good condition.

Categories that carry little or no credit, and therefore add to the cost of the job rather than offsetting it: heavily used builder-grade office furniture (no resale market in our channels); damaged or stained units that would not pass our inspection; very-large cubicle systems with proprietary or end-of-life electrical configurations; non-mainstream furniture sizes (12-foot custom desks, oversized conference tables) that move slowly through our resale channels. We are honest about these at quote time; nothing creates more friction in a liquidation engagement than a number that moves between the quote and the truck.

Coverage area

The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is the standard service area for liquidation, same as for our buying-side install team. Truck logistics and crew dispatch are handled out of Euless. Out-of-region liquidation projects are quoted case-by-case; for very large engagements (multi-floor closures, distribution-center liquidations) we have run jobs as far as Houston, Austin, and Oklahoma City when project economics work. The constraint is rarely physical distance and almost always whether the volume justifies the freight and per-diem labor cost.

Frequently asked questions

How quickly can you respond to a liquidation inquiry?

Initial intake call within one to two business days of the inquiry; on-site walkthrough within one week of the intake call for projects that need it. For urgent timelines (lease ending in 30 days, building closure within weeks), the schedule compresses; we have run engagements with the intake call, walkthrough, quote, and first removal day all inside a two-week window when the customer’s situation required it.

What is the minimum project size?

For pure liquidation (no paired furnishing engagement), our practical minimum is a single truckload — roughly 15 to 25 workstations or equivalent in chairs and casegoods. Below that, the per-piece logistics overhead consumes the value of the furniture, and the customer is usually better served by a smaller-volume liquidator or a donation channel. For larger volumes there is no maximum; we have handled multi-floor corporate closures with hundreds of workstations.

Will you buy furniture from a manufacturer Eggleston does not represent?

Yes. Liquidation is brand-agnostic; we credit furniture on resale market, condition, and our inventory channels, not on the dealer relationship. The pre-owned inventory we resell includes Steelcase, Herman Miller, Haworth, Knoll, Allsteel, Teknion, Kimball, HON, and other major manufacturers. Whether a specific brand carries a credit depends on the resale market for it, not on whether we are an authorized new dealer.

Can liquidation pair with an Eggleston Office furnishing project for the same customer?

Yes — this is a common pattern for downsizing and relocation projects. The customer’s old space gets a liquidation engagement (we clear the existing furniture, crediting back whatever still sells); the customer’s new space gets a furnishing engagement (we sell into the new floor). Single point of contact across both directions, two intake processes that converge on a single project plan. The customer ends up with a smaller net outlay because the credit from the old floor offsets part of the new furniture cost; we like the symmetry because the inventory we just took out feeds the warehouse for the next pre-owned customer.

What happens to items you do not buy?

Three options, depending on what the customer wants. We can recommend smaller-volume liquidators or local nonprofits for items that have no resale market in our channels. We can route items to recycling channels and provide certificates for the customer’s environmental reporting. Or we can leave the items in place for the customer’s separate disposal. Most large liquidations end up using a mix of all three approaches.

Do we pay you, or do you pay us?

Usually the customer pays us, and the quote says so before anything is scheduled. Removal is labor — take-down, loading, hauling, disposal, and a floor that passes the building walk-through — and on most floors that labor costs more than the furniture is worth on resale. Where the inventory is strong the credit offsets part of the job, sometimes all of it, and occasionally the balance runs the customer’s way; that balance is paid within 7 to 14 business days of the final pickup by ACH or business check. What we will not do is open with a cash offer and revise it once a crew has seen the floor.

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