The four ways to buy second-hand here
1. Marketplace and Craigslist listings
Cheapest sticker price in town, and the least protection. You're buying a unit that has been in service for years, with no warranty, no way to verify how it was treated, and no recourse if it stops cooling a week later. Fine for a garage beer fridge. Risky for the only refrigerator in a rented house.
2. Used-appliance shops
Reconditioned units, usually 5–15 years old, often with a short shop warranty of 30 to 90 days. You're paying for someone's repair labour on an old machine. Reasonable value, but the appliance is still old, and parts availability on a decade-old model is its own gamble.
3. Big-box clearance and floor models
Retailers do discount dinged units, but the pool is whatever happens to be dented in that one store that week, and the markdown is usually modest. Worth checking. Rarely worth waiting for.
4. Liquidation outlets like ours
We buy overstock and scratch-and-dent truckloads and pass the savings on. The appliances are current models that never got used — or were briefly a floor unit — and the discount is about a scuff, a dented side panel or an opened box rather than wear. Every unit here carries a 1-year warranty through our warranty partner CPS, which is the piece that's usually missing when you buy used. If you want the detail on how the grades work, read what scratch & dent actually means.
What to ask before you pay anyone
- How old is the unit, really? "Refurbished" can mean a 2011 model with a new gasket. Ask for the model number and look it up.
- Is there any warranty, and who honours it? A 30-day shop promise and a 1-year third-party warranty are very different things.
- Can I see it running? On refrigerators and freezers, cooling is the check that matters. We plug ours in and confirm they cool before they go on the floor.
- What does it cost to actually get it home? A $400 fridge with a $150 delivery and no haul-away isn't a $400 fridge. Ours is $25 delivered inside Bellingham, with old-unit haul-away at $50.
- Will it fit? Bellingham has a lot of older housing stock with tight kitchen cutouts and narrow basement stairs. Measure the opening, the doorway and the turn.
What we have on the floor
Stock changes with each truckload, but it's consistently the same five categories, from Samsung, LG, Hisense, Bosch and Frigidaire:
- Refrigerators — French door, 4-door flex and top-freezer
- Freezers — upright and chest, roughly 10 to 21 cu. ft.
- Ranges — slide-in electric and dual fuel
- Dishwashers — Bosch 800 Series and Benchmark, LG front-control
- Wall ovens — Samsung microwave and oven combinations
Every listing shows our price beside the retailer's price and how many units are left. If you're buying more than one, the multi-unit discounts start at two units, and landlords doing a whole unit turn should look at the landlord page.
How buying here works
- Browse the current inventory and note the units you're interested in.
- Book a visit — we're appointment-only at 1063 W Axton Rd, so nobody stands around a locked warehouse.
- Look at the actual appliance and the actual blemish, measure it if you want, and decide there.
- Take it in a truck the same day, or have it delivered and the old one hauled off.
If the mark bothers you when you see it in person, don't buy it. That's the whole point of looking first.