Hi, Everyone,

I was asked how we are able to handle so many sales especially doing more than one at a time.

Thankfully, we have a terrific team of professionals who help us.  Unless we had this volume of business, I could not afford to have them.  That is what makes us our sales so successful.

While we are thankful for our many years of experience as antique dealers, that is a very small part of what makes a successful estate sales service.  Merely being an antique dealer for years does not come close to preparing someone to handle estate sales. Most estate sales have few if any antiques and there is a lot more to it than having knowledge of antiques.

Our team is very experienced in many areas of business, sales, marketing, liquidation, appraising, etc. Being knowldegable about antiques is a plus but not near as important as other aspects of the business.  That is the difference between an amateur and a professional.

Of course, many antique dealers who talk about their twenty or thirty years of experience don't mention that the experience is from renting a space in an antique mall where they were antique dealers as a side line just as they now try to handle estate sales as a side line.

We don't handle estate sales as a side line.  It is our fulltime occupation.

For more information about our team and how we handle multiple sales read this article.

As it says in the article, "Every sale is given my devoted personal attention.  Our proven success is the proof of that.  Whether we are handling one sale or many, our efforts and results are second to none.  We prove that with each sale and that is the reason that family after family turn to us to handle their estate sale needs."

See you at a sale soon.

Vivian

Hi, Everyone,

Since I want this blog to be informative and educational, I would like to tell you about another recent request.  Actually, it is a rather common one that I receive fairly often.

Someone called and said they had some items for sale but not enough to have an estate sale.  They wanted to know if I could take their items, which they described as "fine antiques" and add them in one of my estate sales.

I told them that we do not do that and referred her to some antique shops which might purchase them or place them on consignment for her.

I realize that "stuffing" items into estate sales is a very common practice.  As a matter of fact, some estate sales services use that as a method to sell items that they purchased just for that purpose.  While it might make for a house that is more full for the sale, I believe it is deceptive and unethical.  Nor is it fair to the client.  We are there to sell the client's items and we should not be competing with them to sell items we brought in.

Our estate sales contain only the items that were in the home when we began preparing the estate for sale.  When the sale begins, all of the items that were in the home when we began (that were suitable for sale) are still there and nothing is ever added.

We like to operate only in a straight forward and open manner.

See you at a sale soon.