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

450 absolute max

I'm not sure that the op had an offer of £900 from a friend. That's not what she said.

It's not so much that it's too big for the house. The new house has an 8 seater kitchen island, with another two 'breakfast bar' stools at the other end of the kitchen. It'll look a little silly if we put another 4 seater table in there (although would be great for hosting a dinner party for the whole street!). Would rather use the spare space to put a sofa there instead.

Any chance you or someone in your family will need it in the nearish future? If so, I'd hold onto it.

Correct, haven't had an offer of £900. It's less than £900 but more than what people have been putting here in terms of £100-300.

£200.

Unfortunately once things are secondhand their value plummets. That’s why a lot of people don’t want to buy a brand new car, they’d rather it be 6 months old with minimal mileage, because it looses value as soon as you drive it off the forecourt.

I have an engagement ring valued at £2k and jewellers have offered me £150!!

I've asked my mum. She's recently just bought a similar one and when I mentioned selling it (which I don't really want to, last resort) she got really upset.

I’d pay £200, unless I’d seen the set at oak furniture land and set my heart on it and was shopping around. In that instance I’d pay £700-800, but that’s a VERY niche pool of people.

There is a very similar one (slightly different chairs and 8 of them) on for £325 near here, it's already been reduced from 350 so I guessing she's struggling to sell it. Hers is immaculate too.
A 6 seat one for £200 and another 6 seat one for £150 and a 6 seat with cream leather chairs £350 and they will deliver it.

Problem is there are lots of these around in good nick for sale second hand so you won't get a good price for it.

@Shhhdontsay - sorry meant to tag you

When you knew your mum was buying a similar set why on Earth didn't you offer this one to her???

If you want to sell it and your colleagues offered you close to £900 then accept it but I'd feel guilty-

I agree- Don’t give it away!
Keep in storage.
Oak if solid and made well would never be as low as £200!

I bought a solid oak £1500 table for £150 on FB Marketplace. Wouldn't have responded to the advert if it had been higher.

@thaegumathteth she bought it just under a year ago. I only decided to move 4/5 months ago so damage was already done. My intention was to look for somewhere with space for room but unfortunately it didn't end that way.

If someone is offering to buy it for close what you want...take it!!

So - you eat round the kitchen island, no dinning room?

Keep it in storage, it’s sentimental and you’d get pennies for it. Do you have DC? It should keep well in storage and can be a gift for their first home

Those dining tables and chairs were quite a hit back in 2005-2007, my 70 year old mother in law had one in her suburban house near Woking. I remember feeling quite cosy sitting in one of those massive clunky chairs. You see them sometimes still in rental cottages.

Based on what you've said, I'd keep it and try and make use of it again in the future.

I can understand it having sentimental value. Given time you might find a use for it in the new house (might be really useful for Christmas if you've got a house full!) and you'd be kicking yourself for giving it away.

I'm torn about what I'd pay for it though if you were to sell it.

Practically brand new I could understand paying more for it than has been quoted here by others, but I think your figures are still expensive compared to what I could get brand new elsewhere.

I'm in the market for a solid oak dining table, but this is the kind of thing I'm looking for. I don't need chairs to go with it, so I'd rather spent £700 on a brand new table. My chairs were only £80 each, so the whole brand new set would cost me £940.

At £1,500 I think your lovely DF might have paid over the odds maybe, which makes it even harder to reconcile.

I'd keep it if I were you OP

That’s what I have done with furniture that we’ve replaced but is still in good condition. It’s kept in storage so that when DD first moves into an unfurnished place she can have them and save money

I was thinking this.

Your dad died this year. He bought it for you.

Your mum has bought a similar one new and is now upset because she could have had yours if you didn't want it.

You're sentimental about it already.

If you flog it too soon you might regret it in a few months.

The thing is, if I was paying £900 for something second hand, regardless of condition, I would be prepared to pay a bit more and make my own choice of brand new. Styles are changing all the time. If you move house and can't use it, doesn't mean someone else will want to pay anywhere near market price. In these cases it is usually the seller loses out price wise and the buyer gets a bargain, which would not necessarily have been their choice if buying new. You get some, but not most of your money back, the buyer's view is they get something, albeit good quality which will 'do for now' until they can afford what they really want.Personally I wouldn't pay to keep it in storage while it devalues as newer styles come out.

By the way, if they're unfashionable, then so am I, though my chairs are scoop back.

If someone could enlighten me as to what a fashionable dining set is nowadays I'd be grateful, especially as I'm about to embark on a new kitchen shortly!

@Laiste.

Yup. OP if you sell it you’ll get about £200 which is a couple of food shops or a meal out these days. I mean this in a nice, factual way, not trying to make you feel bad but if you could afford to buy that set set brand new you don’t sound particularly hard up. You’ll get more joy from passing it on to a child of yours when they get their first place, or if you don’t have kids being able to gift a niece/nephew, friend’s child etc. Or anyone in your life who could do with it at some point

@Laiste trying to think how to describe this. It's a kitchen diner, you have a U shaped kitchen which separates the kitchen & diner, then you have an 8 seater island to the right of the diner and on the left side space for a sofa. There's then 2 bar stools on the diner side of the kitchen U.