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Went to an estate sale in Tacoma and the kitchen stuff was completely different than the garage
The first sale it was all vintage Pyrex and Corningware and the second one two weeks later at the same house was just old rusted tools and half empty paint cans, anyone else notice some sales are totally picked over by the time you get there while others are untouched?
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olivia_chen3521d ago
Wait that's a weird one. Did the estate company run separate sales for different rooms or was it just random people grabbing stuff at different times? I've seen plenty of sales where the good stuff goes fast but never a full house split up like that.
The garage stuff getting picked clean first makes sense since tools and paint cans are cheap and practical. But the kitchen stuff being untouched is odd unless the prices were too high or the patterns were ugly. Pyrex usually flies off the tables even in bad shape.
What kind of stuff was in the kitchen that made it different? Like was it old Tupperware versus the good Corelle sets? Sometimes people leave junk out front and keep the real valuables hidden in the back rooms.
I've had estate sale people tell me they stage things differently on purpose to test what sells. Maybe they pulled the kitchen stuff after the first weekend and swapped in the garage leftovers. Did you ask the person running it what happened?
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That is such a bummer, I really feel for you. It's disappointing to drive all the way there thinking you're getting a full house and finding out someone already cherry-picked everything good. I've had that happen where the sign said "estate sale" but it was just leftover junk from a garage cleanout, and I stood there wondering if the good stuff ever existed at all. Different sale companies do handle things in weird ways though, sometimes they let friends and family in first and those folks take all the good kitchenware before the public ever sees it.
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