Collecting used furniture in Milan: what to agree
Buying a wardrobe or a used library may seem like a simple withdrawal operation. Before confirming your purchase, however, you should know how the furniture will come out of the seller’s house and if it can be mounted in yours.
Ask for information in addition to the photographs of the announcement
Require external dimensions, brand and model when available. Ask for pictures of the interior and useful details, as well as frontal photography. Check if all the accessories shown are included in the price of the furniture: shelves, drawers, handles and lighting can not be included.
Describe existing defects and changes. It is important to know whether the furniture is intact, partially disassembled or stored in several points. The word “easy to disassemble” does not replace a technical evaluation, and a well-successful photo does not allow judging all links.
Agree who disassembles and who prepares
Clearly define whether the dismantling belongs to the seller, buyer or transport operator. If the furniture is delivered disassembled, ask how components and hardware will be identified. Avoid implicit agreements that leave the team an unforeseen job.
Check that the seller has emptied the furniture and freed the necessary space. Ask even if there are other furniture to move to reach it. Personal objects left in the drawers and accessories still attached to the wall can prevent a properly organized retreat.
Collect the access of the two addresses
For the pick-up you need floor, usable elevator, stairway path and possibility of approaching the door. The same information is required for delivery, along with the room sizes. It is not enough to know the neighborhood or the distance between the two ombudsmen.
Make a realistic availability with the seller and communicate a contact person. If the withdrawal depends on keys, caretaker or access to a courtyard, clarify these aspects before fixing the medium. Any need for space on the road must be assessed in advance according to the concrete situation.
Check before separating mobile and owner
At the time of the withdrawal, it controls, directly or through the delegated person, that the components correspond to the agreed ones. Document the visible conditions and the delivered parts. If there is no hardware or accessories, please clarify the matter with the seller: the carrier cannot automatically reconstruct what has not been supplied.
At destination prepares the placement and space for the reassembly. If you have purchased more furniture from different people, keep separate inventories and appointments. To ask DUDA for an evaluation of the in Milan withdrawal, send mobile data and complete access: so the cost of transport is not confused with that of the dismantling or any adjustments.
Also keep separate payment of the furniture and transport agreements: they are different relationships, with interlocutors and activities to be cleared before the withdrawal.