If your business has surplus equipment or excess inventory, don’t overlook eBay as the place to turn it to cash. Since opening in 2005, we’ve sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in business equipment and shipped it worldwide.
Many people make the mistake of thinking eBay is just for small stuff. We [...]

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If you asked me five years ago if I thought we’d be running a business that ships to over 80 countries across the world from a small retail storefront in Romeoville, I would have said you’re crazy. Here we are after nearly four years in business and we’ve done it. We add a [...]

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Video is a fantastic selling tool! When I proposed this one, everyone thought it was crazy. Crazy fun, that is!
Enjoy the video!

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We believe that we package items better than almost anyone. It’s a bold claim, but we take great pride in making sure an item has the right packaging to arrive at it’s new home safe and sound.
We’ve just created a video to show you an example of how we package an item.

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Most of the things we sell can be shipped by conventional carriers like UPS and the US Postal Service. Occasionally, we work with items requiring freight handling.
First thing we need to consider when faced with a freight item is asking ourselves if will anyone pay the freight cost. Freight is expensive [...]

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We’ve received some packages for items that we’ve purchased and have been amazed at the quality of packaging, or most specifically the lack of quality.
Too often, folks don’t think about the handling a package experiences throughout it’s journey. It’s easy to blame the carriers, but in their defense they’re handling thousands of [...]

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A customer visited our store recently to ask about selling some business equipment. He and his wife closed a sign making shop. They tried to sell them several times and finally rolled them into our store with price stickers from prior sales attempts for $400 and $500.
The machines came to us with no [...]

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