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[bazinga]

I would think that if he had made so much more money, for so much less work at the auctions, he wouldn't have stayed with the estate sales. He trained my mother to do them because he couldn't keep up with the demand, and she quit her antique booth at the antique flea market, and never looked back.

If anybody thinks being an auctioneer is easy work, they are very wrong. I've worked for good auctioneers and bad ones. The good ones literally never stop working. The bad ones... Well they call it a day at 5pm. The best auctioneer I've ever worked for has been wanting to stop for years because he would like to have a life outside of work. But he can't find anybody willing to take over the business and put the work into it that it requires to be successful.

And as for how much money an auctioneer makes, I believe it was written in The Millionaire Next Door that on average they are 10x more likely to be a millionaire than the average person. But, there are also a range of factors that go into that number as well.

 

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[bazinga]

It's all good. I understand what your saying. It's all about location. In major metropolitan areas areas such as mine, I don't think the auction scenario would work too well for the simple fact that there are too many sales going on each week. Because of the amount of sales each weekend, the most serious buyers/collectors wouldn't be able to attend them all at the same time. In smaller, less populated area/s, the auction scenario would go over quite well probably because the sales are fewer and farther between, thus creating a higher demand for the items at each sale by those "serious" buyers/collectors. Make sense?

One would think that too many auctions in an area would make for bad auctions had by all sellers, but you would be surprised just how many buyers there are out there. Where I live, once you get out of the big city it gets pretty rural pretty fast. You will see towns of 1,000 people have 3 estate auctions on a Saturday morning and have 100+ people sitting in 100 degree heat buying away all day. For example, this coming Saturday there are 44 auctions currently listed within 50 miles of me and 92 listed within 100 miles. That is a LOT of options for a buyer, but even the crummiest of sales with no antiques or collectibles will still somehow bring out 50+ bidders. A decent sale will bring out 200-500 active bidders.

Every time I've been to Florida, there has never been a shortage of antique shops and malls. There are plenty of dealers out there probably just BEGGING to have more places and options to buy from.

Especially when you factor in how much people might want a particular item. Instead of whoever is first in line to get an item or by luck of the draw, everybody at the sale has the chance to become a buyer of each particular item.

I'm thankful our area hasn't turned the way of estate sales and these sellers have just failed for the most part.

 

[SilverForBrains]

Boy some people are just scheisty!

 

[diggummup]

Boy some people are just scheisty!

What is sheisty about anything said in this thread, unless your referring to some of the estate sale companies i've dealt with in the past? As long as the price of something is agreed upon by both parties there is nothing scandalous about anything here. Bargaining is part of doing business, always has been always will be.