The Clearing House is a consignment shop located in the Hamptons. The shop collects their inventory from local homes and estate sales and makes fine furnishings available at a discounted price. They have two large shops - one in Southampton and one in Greenport.
Both shops resell furniture, lighting, rugs, antiques and collectibles. They also host on-site estate sales, where you attend sales hosted by the shop within the selling estate. Deeper discounts can be had at the second floor's No Place Like Home Foundation thrift shop. The thrift shop donates home furnishings, clothes, children toys, etc. to those in need.
We learned about The Clearing House through the Odegard Hamptons Sale that's coming up on August 23-26, open to the public. You can really save 80% on Odegard rugs. We've been to their sales in the city and were not disappointed.
Also, for moving month, note that the shop apparently has an impeccable moving and delivery service for customers who purchase from them. The service is so good that, due to customer requests, they have made the service available to all for their personal moving needs, even when a purchase has not been made from the shop. These are specialists who are professionals at moving fine furniture.
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I'd love to check this out. How are their prices? Is it a $15,000 sofa marked down to $10,000...in which case my checkbook will stay home and pout...or are they attainable prices?
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Purely coincidentally, I was in the Greenport store on Saturday. The prices are all over the lot, and like any such store the quality ranges from tag sale junk to estate sale antique. There were some interesting things, from 300 year old European chuch pews (very expensive) to a more recent mahogony four post bed (well priced). A fair number of rugs -- didn't look at those.
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Hi Guys, Nick from the ClearingHouse-Southampton here (so i do have a biased opinion...
anyway, thanks for posing your comments. The ClearingHouse only cherry picks the best estate items. Our pricing guidelines are to begin any item at 50% of the retail value. From there we mark-down 10% each month until 30% more is taken off. if the item hasn't sold by then the owner has the option of donating it to our charity "No Place Like Home" or picking it up. The "tag sale" junk that was mentioned is actually items that are either sold at a nominal fee, or given away to women and children coming out of domestic violence shelters (this is thru our "No Place Like Home" charity shoppe).
Thanks for letting me post! any questions, just give me a shout...
Nick
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