November 2, 2026

The cart looked perfect online: three tiers, brushed metal, a drawer that locks. It arrived, you assembled it, and then you wheeled it toward the treatment room and stopped — the frame clears the door by half an inch, and once inside, the top tray sits above your elbow while you’re working on a client.

The reception desk arrives, the crew sets it in place, and only then does anyone notice there’s one outlet on the far wall and a card reader that needs to sit on the client side. Two extension cords later, the front of your salon looks like a server closet — and every client who checks

A treatment bed pops up on Marketplace two towns over: $600, electric, “works great, just upgrading.” You drive out with a trailer, wrestle it up a flight of stairs, and three weeks later the foot section won’t hold height. That’s the moment most salon owners learn that used spa equipment is priced by what the