#How much is the millenium cabbage patch doll worth full#
Otherwise, you are going to have a full time job selling these that may last a year or so and not give you a really good return on your investment of time. Wishing you all the best with your sale!! I think you will feel much better about things if you leave it to a pro!! If you need help understand the contract when you get one with an company, post back and I can help you!! You can help have a successful sale and less left for the clean out if you work with the estate sale company to promote the sale IN ADDITION to how they promote it.įor example, you can post about the sale on your social media, you can join Facebook groups that allow self promotion and promote the sale there, etc. If they make a little more, they are happy, but most barely make back the money needed to GET TO that $3,000. So yes, they make up the balance of their money if they sell the items off on their ownĪn example of the math is a clean out costs the company $3,000 for everything (see above)-they charge you $1,500-take everything left and hope to make the other $1,500 to make the $3,000 cost back at the end. They charge you a fee to do this because they have to pay all of this upfront (people, supplies, trucks, dumpsters, etc.)
Most good estate sale companies also offer to do minor repairs (like pull up ratty carpet or paint the walls), most also do a physical cleaning of the place at the end-meaning vacuum carpets or broom sweep non carpeted areas, leaving the place empty and clean. They had to get people, trucks, then a place to store the unsold items. So first off, YES, MOST take the unsold items and sell them on their own and YOU DO NOT GET the money from those sales.BUT, what everyone forgets is you got their TIME UPFRONT to clean out the place and take all the stuff away. In the contract you will need to work with them on how they will "clean up or clean out" after the sale.īe aware that estate sale companies that charge you to remove items after the sale are doing so for a reason-again-it is their time and energy.here is a little behind the scenes of why they do this. I have never held or been to and estate sale where everything was gone-ever-and I am not a spring chicken in age.
They will also need to tell you what happens to what is LEFT from the sale, because there will be a lot left no matter how big or long or good the sale is. The contract will tell you exactly how the sales will go and what percentage they get and you get and when you get the money. They should give you an easy to understand contract. yard sales where people who need something may stop by to see if you have the do hickey they need.Īsk friends and family for recommendations for reputable estate sale companies in your town and get 2-3 bids from them before you proceed. Where I am, estate sales get huge crowds and a lot of antique and vintage dealers and pickers come out, vs.
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