Auction?
For those of you who have auctioned off your stuff: Did you sell any of the larger items first? Do they want it all, or nothing? How negotiable are the rates & what did you pay? Do you have to pay...
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The estate auction.
We lived 8 miles out of town (1 mile of dirt road after turning off asphalt). Yard sales don't do well hence the idea of estate auction.
Auctioneer advertised with flyers, e-mails to followers, newspaper etc. for 2 weeks prior to action.
Staff came out 3 days prior to auction and sorted/boxed items into 'lots' (small stuff in 1 lot---large items 1 lot)
Day of auction
Previewing was for 2 hours (7am---9am)
Auction started at 9am and ended at 4pm
All items had to be paid for and removed that day
Some items didn't bring as much as we thought they should but majority of items went for way more than what they were worth (bidding wars---- :S )
At end of day everything was gone. Even things that I would have taken to dump (auctioneer told me "Hold off getting rid of anything until after auction" and he was right.)
Auctioneer tallied up the sales...cut us our check. His fee was 25%.
Which was well worth the advertisement, the sorting/boxing, selling and draw (130+ folks)and the NO Hassle benefit for us.
Family/friends had already picked thru house....some items given/some sold.
And day of auction----if we changed our mind on an item it could be pulled (prior to going up for bid). WE didn't :B
No sales tax.....it was a 'yard sale'
Smaller/manageable 'lots' were set up on tables in front yard.
Larger items/furniture was done in place in house
It was the fastest, easiest, money in pocket way of getting rid of ALL the 'stuff'.
I didn't have to do ANYTHING except sit back an watch.
My back thanked me, my pocket book thanked me, my GF thanked me.
We lived 8 miles out of town (1 mile of dirt road after turning off asphalt). Yard sales don't do well hence the idea of estate auction.
Auctioneer advertised with flyers, e-mails to followers, newspaper etc. for 2 weeks prior to action.
Staff came out 3 days prior to auction and sorted/boxed items into 'lots' (small stuff in 1 lot---large items 1 lot)
Day of auction
Previewing was for 2 hours (7am---9am)
Auction started at 9am and ended at 4pm
All items had to be paid for and removed that day
Some items didn't bring as much as we thought they should but majority of items went for way more than what they were worth (bidding wars---- :S )
At end of day everything was gone. Even things that I would have taken to dump (auctioneer told me "Hold off getting rid of anything until after auction" and he was right.)
Auctioneer tallied up the sales...cut us our check. His fee was 25%.
Which was well worth the advertisement, the sorting/boxing, selling and draw (130+ folks)and the NO Hassle benefit for us.
Family/friends had already picked thru house....some items given/some sold.
And day of auction----if we changed our mind on an item it could be pulled (prior to going up for bid). WE didn't :B
No sales tax.....it was a 'yard sale'
Smaller/manageable 'lots' were set up on tables in front yard.
Larger items/furniture was done in place in house
It was the fastest, easiest, money in pocket way of getting rid of ALL the 'stuff'.
I didn't have to do ANYTHING except sit back an watch.
My back thanked me, my pocket book thanked me, my GF thanked me.
