What would you expect to pay for this?

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Solid oak extending table with 4 chairs. Original price £1500, only used 6 months and has been wrapped in storage since. Immaculate condition with no marks/wear and tear.

What would you deem a reasonable price for it secondhand?

Looks similar to this picture but plain grey chairs in the same style

Its not brand new though, its been used for 6 months.

If your colleague has offered in the general ballpark of what you want, I’d absolutely bite their hand off. I’d not pay more than £250 second hand (as I did with my current table and eight chairs)

You would be lucky to get more than £100 at a real life auction for that. Probably less. Unless it has a good designer name second hand furniture sells for very little.

If it was £1,500 new. That means £250 was VAT. So I always start from there if I'm selling something almost brand new i.e. start at £1,250 and work backwards. You can't expect someone else to refund the tax you paid 😂

Replace with second hand?

It's disappointing when you think you have something worth a certain amount but you can't actually get that amount for it. My sister is like this and it's making her a bit of a hoarder. I know money is tight but you get nothing for keeping stuff you don't need.

If you don't need it/want it, you might as well let it go for what you can.

£200 to £300 absolute max. It won’t be to everyone’s taste and unless it has been upcycled in a trendy little shop in London, used furniture sells for peanuts .

The chairs are a similar shape but are not that pattern. They are light plain grey and very modern looking.

That's not fashionable though. That style is ten a penny on gumtree, ebay, whatever.

There's half a dozen solid oak tables for sale on our local fb selling site, all £100-200. Generally they don't actually sell. They are big, heavy and unwieldy and don't fit in a standard car even with the legs off.

It's not brand new though is it? It's been used for 6 months and been in storage for however long. Even if it is looks brand new, does the original warranty transfer to a new owner? That's where it looses value, with unknowns like the quality of the upholstery, joinery or varnish, without a warranty.

you wonder if your colleague is being cheeky for offering nearly what you want for it?! your colleague isn’t the cheeky one

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Good score! Where did you find it?

I like solid oak and a less fashionable style. I would think about £300 provided no marks.

I think you have really misunderstood the market for things like this.

It's not to everyone's style. It is second-hand (it's not brand new). Yes, it's solid and heavy and that means it's also going to be a pain in the arse to move (and expensive as they would have to be paying for a van and at least two people to move it).

How much will it cost you to keep it in storage? I'd think you'd be better off cutting your losses and flogging it for £150 as others have suggested.

No matter how little you've used it or how well you've looked after it, it's just not worth as much as you think it is.

Sorry, OP.

£150 -200. I doubt you'd get more. Tables, chairs and sofa hardly get any interest.

I think if anything like furniture is being sold second hand, regardless of how 'like new' it is, has to be at the very least less than half/ a third of the original cost.

Then considering dining sets like this are pretty easy to come by on marketplace etc you could go for around 200-300.

Yes, I really like it 😍

Just seen your update. If someone's offered you £900, then take it! Thats a great offer.

We had a dining table, not as good as the OPs but still decent, and we couldn't give it away, even the charity shops didn't want it, no demand.

If you’ve got a colleague prepared to offer you more than £500 you should snap their hand off, OP. Second hand furniture goes for buttons.

I got a roll-top writing desk for a tenner.

Accept the offer asap!

Before your colleague sees other ones online for a lot less.

I sold a very similar set from
fenwicks but with cream chairs - £150 I got from a family member after zero interest online

I disagree that people won’t pay much for second hand goods, it all depends on what you’re selling. I bought a garden sofa set which I used for 3-4 months and sold it for more than I paid for it.
How old is the table and chairs, being perfectly honest it doesn’t really look like a £1500 dining set and the chairs are quite dated in my opinion but I defiantly think it’s worth more than a one or two hundred pounds.I’d say maybe £500-£600 would be reasonable.

Go with your friends higher offer then op sounds decent considering results on here!
Or if you could find a family that need it?shelter/homeless to homed etc. But obviously if you need and want money for it that's fine.