All the businesses I have worked for, and my personal business, have/has always done business with established furniture sellers. In other words, we called them. I would think the best thing for you to do would be to advertise, depending on your scal...
you can go to yahoo auction, amazon, ubiz, ubid, and if what you want is to sell items, go on www.craigslist.com you can also do a search on auction websites.
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