WHO MOVES THE CHAIRS

WHERE THE LOTS COME FROM

Every lot on this site started as a room full of chairs somebody no longer needed: a hotel refreshing its ballroom, a university clearing an event hall, a convention center switching suppliers, a county surplus office emptying a warehouse. Those sets go up on government and institutional surplus auctions, and that is where we buy — whole lots, hundreds to a few thousand chairs at a time, all one model and one finish.

We bid on the sets a church, school or venue can actually use: padded banquet chairs, wire-frame and sled-base stackers, metal folders, the occasional run of conference seating. We skip the mismatched piles. When a lot is won it is counted, photographed as it sits, and listed here with the real number and the real city.

WHAT "BY THE LOT" MEANS

A listing is one matched set in one place. The quantity on the page is what is on the floor; the price is per chair, and it is a fraction of the catalog price for the same commercial-grade chair because the venue already paid for it once. Most lots split by the pallet for a local buyer. For freight, the minimum is whatever makes the shipping sensible, and we say so up front rather than making you guess.

Pickup in the listed city is free. For everything else we palletise and shrink-wrap the chairs and ship LTL or by dedicated truck anywhere in the continental US. Every lot page has a freight form that prices your ZIP, and the number we confirm before you pay is the number you pay.

WHO YOU ARE TALKING TO

Black Whole is run by one person, Abdel Nasser, out of Phoenix, Arizona, with chairs staged in whichever city they were bought in. That is on purpose: no call center, no "let me check with the warehouse." The person who answers the form is the person who counted the chairs, took the photos and knows which pallet the spares are on.

Most of our buyers are churches, fellowship halls, event-rental companies, schools and hotels seating a room on a budget. If you need the board or the pastor to sign off first, say so — we hold lots while you get approval, and a refundable deposit locks one when Checkout is open.

SELLING TO US

Closing a venue, refreshing a ballroom, or sitting on a storage unit of chairs that never came back out? We buy used seating in bulk, quote from photos and a count, and handle the haul. Start on the sell page — it takes two minutes.