A charity has now been waiting more than eight months to receive £900 worth of chairs used by athletes in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games last year.

The Commonside Trust, which runs the New Horizon Centre in Pollards Hill, paid Nottingham-based company Legacy of the Remains for 60 chairs in August.

The furniture company, which supplied sports venues for the games, has been selling off more than 200,000 items including chairs that stars including Usain Bolt have sat on.

But it has received numerous complaints, two years' after a similar fiasco when hundreds of people who bought furniture used in the London 2012 Olympics waited many months to receive furniture used by athletes.

Andy Hodge, operations manager at the Commonside Trust, said: "I'm about to go to court with them. They were selling off furniture from the games and we needed some new chairs.

"They wanted the money upfront which we weren't happy with but we spoke to other charities who'd used them after the Olympics and said they were slow but OK so we went ahead with it.

"When I first asked for a refund in January I heard nothing and then I said this is appalling, you're obviously not going to do anything, we'll go to court.

"Then I was forwarded an email sent to the logistics team saying contact this man in 24 hours and they didn't."

The furniture company purports on its website to be "an extraordinary scheme" offering charities, community organisations and schools the chance to pick up furniture "at a hugely discounted rate".

Paul Levin, manager of the Commonwealth Games salvage operation, told the Wimbledon Guardian the company has encountered huge problems because stock was not sorted before it was packed into 40ft-high vans and sent down from Scotland.

The company has spent months emptying and stock-checking seven vans containing up to 300,000 items.

He said: "It has been a real real problem but it's a problem that unfortunately takes time. We have been in contact. But more importantly our job is to make sure at the end of the day we get a solution."

He promised the chairs will be delivered next week or the charity can have a refund, but no discount will be offered despite the delivery delay.

Instead, he said the charity will be offered extra items from the games free of charge, such as noticeboards.