• furniture like sofas, chairs, ottomans to bedroom sets, dining room sets, display cabinets
• bedroom items like mattresses, headboards, box springs, bed frames
• rugs or artwork
• appliances like fridges, washers, dryers, microwaves, stoves
• small appliances like blenders, toasters, vaccuumes, air conditioner
• exercise equipment and entertainment equipment like fooseball tables
And you..
• want to save money on the big purchase
• have done a little bit of homework so you know pricing for brand new
• don't mind buying something slightly imperfect
Then you need to take a quick walk around one of the Rosehill Liquidation locations.
http://rosehilloutlets.ca/brantford/index.html
Clips of items from their newsletters for exampl of what they have at any given time:
Basically they buy truckloads of product from name brand places like Sears, which include scratch and dent items, returned special order items, or returned items. They don't know what they're going to get until they unload the truck, and they get one or two trucks a week full of new product.
When buying the items for my house, I knew what kind of sofa I was looking for, so we went back every week to see what they had. Since it's a first-come first-served kind of place, we kept checking back until my perfect sofa with a matching ottoman showed up. We bought the leather sofa (who's defect was that one top cushion didn't zipper on all the way) for $475.
The matching look ottoman was $125.
Other items I've bought:
• washer and dryer combo (dents in both, washer at the front and dryer at the back) for $472
• pedestals with drawers for the units (colour doesn't match the washer and dryer) for $105 total
• my pillow top mattress. Don't know what was wrong with it, it was completely brand new. Right in the store I googled it and found it was priced everywhere at $2300, bought it for $560, and they threw in the boxspring.
• both roommates bought their mattresses - one got a beautiful double for $400 and the other got a queen for $600 I think. Free boxsprings again
• headboard for the bed (chip in top corner)
• fridge. We originally bought a normal white fridge and within the month the freezer crapped out. We took it back to rosehill and they offered me my choice from the floor as a replacement. I chose an even nicer stainless steel double door fridge and paid an extra $200. Total I paid $800 for the fridge.
• beautiful rug that matched my new leather couch and the walls of my new living room. Again I googled this in the store for what it's price was elsewhere, and ended up paying $135
• various blender, coffee maker, knife block set and such.. Basically each for $20
• a Christmas tree one year. Pre-lit very tall artificial tree that we ended up paying like $22 for it after their newsletter discount
• beautiful room dividing screens. Googled them in the store and bought three of them the next second because of how cheap they were. Two matched my new decor and one had birds and twigs on it, perfect for my mom (pictured)
• rod iron trees that my parents ended up using to create a beautiful deck
Important that you note their appliance and electronics warranties.. Are very short. They test them in the store, but for the most part they don't know what happened in the appliance's past life.
Furniture is a pretty safe bet if you check it over thoroughly and test the frames and such.
It's not everyone's cup of tea, and I totally get that. My Grandma pointed out that although she is totally willing to save money, she also can't handle removing a mattress and bringing a new one in on her own, so she would pay extra in Sears for example to have them come do that.
If you're not fussy though, I would take a drive and see what they have to offer. I've never gone there and not walked out with something.
Oh, and don't forget to sign up for their newsletter so you can get a further discount on your purchase (basically 10% off everything and they change the secondary discount each month)!
