LAKEWOOD—
Investor losses are your gains at Office Liquidators in Lakewood. The furniture company is selling off assets from the Denver office of Stanford financial group.The federal government shut down the company in February because of an alleged massive ponzi scheme that misappropriated billions of investors' money.
Now, you can buy their high-end office furniture at 75- to 80-percent off retail. It's worth about $250,000 retail.
There are hickory leather Queen Anne leather guest chairs which retail at $1884. Now for $399. There's also a hickory leather 86-inch leather coach which retails for $4175. Now for $1899. You'll also find desks, expensive artwork and hutches/credenzas.
The company says local small businesses can benefit from what was a bad situation.
"It's pretty symptomatic of what's going on in the economy and why we are where we are--where we've had some big businesses who weren't careful and were actually defraudulent," says office liquidators spokesperson Steve Caulk.
Office liquidators also sold off some of Enron's office furniture when the government dismantled it.
"We had a lot of interest in that because people like having an Enron conference table in the building. It's kind of notorious It's kind of fun. It's a conversation piece," says Caulk.
The company is now bidding for furniture from Stanford's 50 other closed offices across the u-s and other countries.
