Another wasted morning at an "estate sale"

[Junk_Puppet]

I'll take a stab at this one since I kind of agree to a certain point from my own personal experiences in this neck of the woods...

1- Any sale that has ebay mentioned is someone who has probably researched every item they are selling so their items will be priced as such.

2- Any sale that has a phone number mentioned has already been bombarded with dealers calling, also they are probably a dealer themselves. So...
a- if not a dealer then the good stuff has probably been snatched up already by those dealers who lie in wait for new garage sale listings to pop up and call within the first 5 minutes of seeing the listing or...
b- if it is a dealer then their prices are probably too high to make any money off of.

3- If specific names of certain collectibles or antiques are mentioned then it means the person selling the items knows what they are selling and it will usually priced as such, retail or slightly lower with not enough meat on the bone for most resellers.

This is good if you live in an area where there are many sales to choose from. Obviously it wouldn't work too well in an area where you only have a couple dozen sales to choose from in a 25 mile radius. There are usually 200-500 sales to choose from in the tri county area down here each week, depending.

Well said!! You explained it perfectly

 

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[HenryWaltonJonesJr]

I always thought that people could make a deal with a storage company to get rid of their junk by staging it nicely in a storage unit before an auction (Under furniture pads and maybe throw in an empty chest and a cheap safe). Then split the profits 50/50. Bet it'd still be 10x what you would get at a garage sale since Storage Wars became popular.

Anyway, there is always a way to get had and people willing to do the having.

 

[clovis97]

I always thought that people could make a deal with a storage company to get rid of their junk by staging it nicely in a storage unit before an auction (Under furniture pads and maybe throw in an empty chest and a cheap safe). Then split the profits 50/50. Bet it'd still be 10x what you would get at a garage sale since Storage Wars became popular.

Anyway, there is always a way to get had and people willing to do the having.

There are already people doing this, and they've been doing it for many years, even before the TV show debuted.

There is an auctioneer in our area that is filling storage units full of trash and other unsellable junk, and pawning it off as an abandoned storage unit. There are some rumors that this auctioneer is filling some units with empty boxes that are taped shut.

The storage companies are also in on the game. They are taking all of the stuff that people leave behind, like desks, file cabinets...anything for that matter, and putting into an empty unit, and pretending it is something it is not.

I went to one of the SU sales that the auctioneer had. I find it REALLY odd that the SU was calling out the name of the tenant and reading the legalese, and then cutting the lock on the door before the auctioneer started selling the contents, but when they got to some units, there was no announcement at all, the auctioneer really started talking up the unit, and there was no lock to cut from the door.

 

[ARC]

I walk into most estate sales and come out with something that they have no idea what it was.... but they know "its something"...
SO...
Problem is every estate companies and services know me... and this...
So they ask me all sorts of questions about anyrhing I bring up to buy...
Then they also ask me about the things they "have set aside" etc...
They wanna show it to me... like to show it off... to TEASE me ... sheeesh...
Seems they just want to know about it. heh

I don't mind helping people out but sometimes it can be lame...
SO with that in mind...
I have no problem walking through and picking the "sleepers" out

And they really "look at it" and I can see them thinking "oh man what am I selling him".