Furniture Flip Offers: Compare Pickup and Delivery by Hourly Return

A higher offer does not always produce a better return on your time. Delivery can add cash while also adding travel, loading and coordination. Put both offers on the same worksheet before deciding.

Use all the hours Record sourcing, pickup, cleaning, repair, finishing, photography, buyer messages and handover. Separate completed hours from the work still required for each option. A [furniture-flipping discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/FurnitureFlip/comments/1qlb253/how_do_people_track_profit_when_flipping_multiple/) describes using paper notes beside a spreadsheet to capture these stages. It is a workable starting point.

Compare two actual offers Suppose a dresser has cost $100 and taken five hours so far. A buyer offers $250 with pickup and no additional work in this simplified example. Cash after entered costs is $150; divided by five hours, that is $30 per hour.

Another buyer offers $290 delivered. If delivery adds $20 and two hours, cash after entered costs becomes $170. Across seven hours, that is $24.29 per hour. To achieve the same $30 hourly target with delivery, the offer would need to be $120 + seven times $30, or $330.

These figures omit any expenses you have not entered. Include overhead allocations if you want them represented, and keep this operational comparison separate from accounting.

Use the result as context An hourly target is your preference, not a prediction of what buyers will pay. A lower offer may still be sensible when storage is scarce. Also consider the extra cash per additional delivery hour: in this example, $20 for two hours, or $10 per hour. Historical costs cannot be recovered simply by setting a higher asking price.

FlipHours is a planned tool for this comparison and piece-specific time capture. The proposed price is $29 one-time; the interest page does not collect payment.