All too commonly, someone hires an estate sale company and then cannibalizes their own sale. Here’s a good example. A potential seller contacts an estate sale company and lists a few high-end items that he wants sold. They include a vintage car, a baby grand piano and giant leather sofa, amongst a whole house full of items. Then he calls back later telling the estate sale company that he doesn’t want to sell his car and his friend will buy the piano.
This may seem as if the seller wants to save a few pennies on commission when it comes to selling his high-priced items. What he doesn’t know is that by parceling his items before the sale, he is actually losing money. He is “cannibalizing” his own estate sale.
Estate sales are listed publicly. Big ticket items such as a car or piano will draw big crowds with a lot of money to spend. They may or may not buy the big ticket items, but that isn’t something you should worry about. Those people – the very same people with enough money to bid on a car or piano – are now in your home with that same amount of money in their pockets. If they made the effort to come to the estate sale, you can bet they will take a look around.
A percentage of that money will find its way into your pockets. The high-end customers will now spend some of their cash on your other items, which drives the entire sale through the roof. So if you lure buyers into an estate sale with luxury items, they will likely leave with everything else. You can rest assured that Heritage Estate Sales will take care of all your items, getting you the highest return on your personal property, big and small. Contact us today for more!