# Move Loot Furniture gets rid of it Correct

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2015/02/moveloot-furniture-get-rid-of-your-loot-correctly/
- Published: 2015-02-06T01:09:17-05:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

Let’s hear it for **Move Loot.** Each year, 10.8M tons of furniture goes into US
landfills. Thereby making it one of the largest landfill categories. San Francisco-
based startup Move Loot is addressing that problem. For that’s with the first curated
online marketplace for secondhand furniture and décor.

Move Loot’s mission is to provide consumers with an alternative to buying “disposable”
furniture at discount stores such as Target and [IKEA](https://greenlivingguy.com/2023/02/green-moving-movement-moving-companies/).
Because items are destined for the curb in just a few short years.   Instead, they
can buy and sell high quality secondhand furniture at [www.moveloot.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20180826115300/https://www.moveloot.com/)
via a consignment model, and keep perfectly good items out of a landfill.

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_**How Move Loot works**_:

 1. Sellers photograph furniture, and upload the photos and prices to Move Loot (via
    the mobile app or a laptop/desktop).
 2. Move Loot collects the furniture, photographs it professionally. Then posts it 
    online for sale, and stores it until it sells.
 3. Buyers choose what they want via the mobile app or computer, pay online and schedule
    delivery to their doorstep. All via Move Loot movers. I mean as soon as next day.
 4. Following the traditional consignment model, sellers get a portion of the selling
    price, but Move Loot handles all of the hassle.

 1. In keeping with Move Loot’s environmental values, items that don’t sell are eventually
    donated to local charities.

## Move Loot Growth

Move Loot’s business has been growing by 40 percent month over month. Especially
as more Americans seek to sell their furniture. That’s rather than putting it on
the curb. Moreover look to purchase/recycle furniture rather than buy new but cheaply
made pieces.

Since a graduate of the tech accelerator Y Combinator, Move Loot has raised $2.8M
in seed funding and is expanding quickly. The service is currently available in 
San Francisco, Raleigh-Durham, NC and Charlotte, NC; the company has been expanding
to new cities at the rate of about one every 8 weeks.

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