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Steelcase furniture can be bought at pennies on the dollar at office space auctions. In fact in many places companies hold “clearing sales” to clear the office space from any furniture due to the high costs of disposing of the furnishings when their tenancy ends or when they sale the building. I bought a Steelcase workstation desk complex that costs around £3000 in the UK for £257 at an auction such as that.
Out of interest, how do you find such auctions in the UK?
Just search for office auctions UK, I don't remember which of the sites I finally used to get the desk from I went through about 10 of those.
P.S. Just be careful of the sites that charge you money for getting a collections of listings, these have their value for resellers but not for casual buyers.