Nonprofit · Pickup · Drop-off · Free · Booking needed
Fairkauf Sozialkaufhaus (Union Sozialer Einrichtungen)
A social department store run by a sheltered-employment provider, which collects donated furniture from your home at no charge by arrangement.
Right for you if
- Furniture that still works, when getting it downstairs is the problem.
- It has to cost nothing.
- You cannot move it yourself. They come and collect.
- You can get it there under your own steam.
- You would rather it was used again than buried.
Look elsewhere if
- It is broken, dirty or missing parts.
- You need it gone today.
Contact and booking
- Phone
- 030 84 72 72 27
- [email protected]
- Book online
- Not published
- Address
- Albrechtstr. 117, 12167 Berlin
- Opening hours
- Shop Mon to Fri 10:00 to 18:00, Sat 10:00 to 14:00. Donations accepted Tue and Thu 10:00 to 18:00, Sat 10:00 to 14:00
- Website
- Official website
Verification
Checked against a published source
Last checked 20 August 2026
That means we read a published source and it said this. It does not mean we watched them do it, or followed the material afterwards, that is a separate, deeper check this has not been through. How we check →
Sources
Part of How to get rid of stuff in Berlin.
Why use it
One of ten organisations in BSR's own directory that will collect donated furniture from your home free of charge, which is the route to reach for if you cannot carry a wardrobe downstairs and cannot pay fifty euros for BSR to do it. The shop is staffed by volunteers and people in supported employment, and gives a discount to people on ALG II and Grundsicherung. Two limits are worth knowing before you ring. They state plainly that they do not take on complete house clearances, so this is for pieces rather than for emptying a flat. And their page gives no catchment area and no condition standard for collection, so ask. Note also that donation intake days are narrower than the shop hours.
Good for
- furniture
- books
- toys
- clothes
- other items
How it works
| How you use it | They collect, or you can take it there yourself. |
|---|---|
| Cost | Free to donate, and the home collection of furniture is free by arrangement. Delivery of things you buy is charged. |
| Booking | Arrange it with them either way. |
| Service area | Not published |
| Run by | Union Sozialer Einrichtungen gGmbH (USE), a nonprofit |
Where your things go
A named destination is worth more than a stated intention, and both are worth more than silence. This is the row to read before you book: if your item's row is empty, ask them on the phone and tell us what they say.
Not documented yet. This operator has not published what happens to each kind of item, and we have not been able to establish it from anywhere else. That is the gap, stated rather than hidden. If you ask them, tell us what they say.
Does it actually work
The part no company website tells you. Some of this comes from our checks, some from readers who used the service, and where nobody has told us yet, it says so.
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Booking
Their pages
Arrange it with them either way.
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Typical wait
Needs reports
Not established
Nobody has told us how long they waited. Two reader reports would settle it.
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Do they answer
Needs reports
Not established
We read their pages, we did not phone them. One reader who got through would settle it.
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Restrictions
Their pages
Must be clean and working · By appointment only
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Who it's for
Needs reports
Not established
Nothing published about who may use it.
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Last checked
Pipeline
20 August 2026
Checked against their published pages.
What happens to it
- Donated to an organisation that will use it
- Put back into use
This describes the route the item takes, as the operator states it. We do not claim a recovery rate we have not seen evidence for.
What readers told us
Used them recently?
How long you waited, what they refused, whether anyone picked up the phone. Those are the three facts no website publishes and the ones the next reader needs.
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