Please bring back the old videos of you showing what sold during the week

@BerlinBLR

5 ай бұрын

Yes please!

@So-FarGone

5 ай бұрын

THIS!

@tranquility2348

5 ай бұрын

He only sells like 7 items a week....Thats why he doesnt do those videos...

@itsmwen743

5 ай бұрын

Yes please bring the old videos back

@kovedev

5 ай бұрын

been missing these

in my opinion they need to be outed out for cheating their customers.

@adammonahan687

5 ай бұрын

Yes they absolutely should

Hey John! I'm so glad you addressed the estate sale scammers. I've experienced the same thing and worse for years here on the East Coast. It's a sin and a shame that they are screwing the clients and also wasting our time.

@brock9518

5 ай бұрын

Stop crying baby

@marjoriejohnston6038

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I’m from the northwest and my husband recently had a conversation from Estate Sale company from back east, and he could not believe what he heard the companies do over there. You basically paid them to clean out your house and if you back out you owe them money my husband was flabbergasted.

We have a nearby company that is a SCAM. Their prices are insane. The rooms messy like what you showed. And, then we found out they have a store front to sell (for their own benefit) what didn't sell. Yup. After 3 visits - because we only saw the sign and didn't connect the dots - until we got there. Boy, oh Boy! What a SCAM. We go out of our way to AVOID them. Thank you for sharing. How sad for the family members of the estate.

Wow. That sale was a mess. Nothing cleaned up, things piled all over, and so expensive! Disgraceful.

This video needs to be shared everywhere.

I stopped going to estate sales for the same experience. Too overpriced and they don't negotiate. I feel bad for the family who hired them. They are getting scammed and they probably don't realize it.

We have so many of these bait estate sale companies in Phoenix. I won't waste my time with them anymore - i want nothing to do with them.

@burtmcgurt3584

5 ай бұрын

They will screw you! My brother bought motorcycle from one and they wouldn't give him the title...Still haven't.

@baddkarmmaa

5 ай бұрын

I'm in Phoenix too. I went to one recently and they had a PS3 slim with 0 games for $130 - INSANE. I found a cool Sony tuner and it didn't have a price, so the employee sent the boss a photo of the model number and he definitely Ebayed it and gave me the highest listed price. Screw em!

@SportsRAPP

5 ай бұрын

What companies do you avoid in the Phoenix area? I've cut way back on how many estate sales I go to. They've all raised their prices to a point where its tough to turn a profit. Thankfully we have so many garage sales every weekend that it isn't a problem finding enough inventory.

@FrockSwapShop

5 ай бұрын

@SportsRAPP Ugh I avoid Fresh State Estate Sales, Griffin Estate Sales, Estate In Time (they used to be awesome but now everything is a "luxury" item), Anything Blue Moon or Blue Barn (who literally has an Ebay store where they sell items they've ripped off of estates via pricing them too high), and Allergo (who also used to be great but are out of this world nowadays). It doesn't leave many places to go but I work full time and don't have a lot of time to source so I have to be sure I'll find stuff. Also these companies take a beating in the off season and it's fun to watch them wish they had resellers come by but they have burned bridges so badly. Fresh Start especially hates resellers - check out their yelp reviews there the owner gets into fights when people talk about how expensive they are! Haha! I'm thankful for garage sales as well - there truly is plenty of inventory to go around!

Wait...did I miss the Grand opening of Toys R Us or Macy's out front?! Ridiculous, selling for retail prices and even higher! Here in Toronto we have the same thing with a lot of these scam Estate sale companies keeping pennies on the dollars. Also, I've seen where these companies charge for cleanup/ clear out costs after sales are done!

Sad to see that this happens. Unfortunately, it happens more often than most would realize. I see it a lot locally and make a mental note to never attend their sales in the future.

Sounds like an Options estate sale. They are the absolute worst. Refuse to go to their sales. They are straight up trash.

thank you for the info. That is unfortunate that there are companies like that out there.

Things make SO MUCH more sence now. Thank you for this inside.

I’ve identified a couple of the scam estate sale companies in my area. One, for example, had tons of sealed DVD and Blu Rays, including rare stuff worth money. They had a sign on the wall, DVDs $4 each. I grab like a stack of like 40 DVDs. Get to the checkout and they claim their sign meant $4 per DVD in the case. Season 1 of a show with 5 DVDs? They wanted $20. Ended up putting majority of them away and walked away with like the 5 most valuable and talked them down on the price a little.

@theblindph0t0grapher

5 ай бұрын

Lol. I had a similar incident where they charged me per DVD for one series, but then sold me a different complete series for the single price. It was all dirt cheap and I made my money back anyway.

@WhatTheFlipDidIBuy

5 ай бұрын

@@theblindph0t0grapher Yeah, at my sale, $4 per DVD was rough, even with stuff new and sealed. A lot of the stuff was worth like $20 sealed, so at $4, it was a good pickup but at $20, it was a no thanks. Ended up spending like $50 in total for like 4 or 5. Made about $200-$300 because I only grabbed the stuff I absolutely knew was worth it.

@pccleric

5 ай бұрын

Must have gotten vaxxed and had problems afterwards

Thank you for this video!! I went to an estate sale that I dug through a ton of stuff and they saw what I chose and denied me several items saying they didn’t know it was there and it was not for sale. Thought I was mistaken, but this video proved me wrong, THEY wanted what I chose for themselves! Again thank you!!

This is why when liquidating it’s ALWAYS better to go with an auctioneer and not an estate sale company. In most states auctioneers are licensed and bonded and heavily regulated by the state. Anyone on any day can be an estate seller. Most auctions are online now instead of in person but it’s always better to deal with a licensed bonded and trained professional than a fly by night anybody.

@cincinnatipicker

4 ай бұрын

100%

Fortunately most of the estate companies around here put on clean and organized sales. One company does have trashy sales, however, they cater to the low value estates so they just say pick out stuff and bring it here for a price. (sometimes good deals!) I have asked all of the regular estate sale companies here - What happens to the items not sold? - They all give one of the following answers: 1. We have a buyer who will clear everything for an agreed price. (Of course that could be Uncle Guido with a Mercedes from the old country) 2. The left-overs go back to the family. The absolute best estate sales are run by family members of grandpa and grandma. They always seem to give good deals and I would bet that those family members actually get more money than hiring a professional company.

Really sad thinking about it looks like that room was like a 30-40 year old guy that just recently passed and there just selling his stuff off I know this is common but it's sad to think about. The dude that owned all the stuff was defintily a collector he had a bunch of cool things. By the looks of it everything was overpriced by $10-$20 judging by the MS-11 Geloog 1:54 goes for $10-$20.

@Nordicsmith

5 ай бұрын

Totally... I´m in my 30s myself and collect video games and game related stuff. Have a ton and know what it´s worth... to see it all thrown around on the floor like that hurts.

@Xxpavement_angelxX

4 ай бұрын

It’s really sad and creepy to imagine someone just going through your stuff although the stuff looked reallyyy old

yep, unfortunately it happens a lot.. there's a place around here doing the exact same thing, everything is priced well above ebay and both times I've seen them they said they're taking everything to the dump. That was after I asked them if I could buy what's left.

Really appreciate your advice here. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with Estate Sales. ❤

Just happened to come across this and I will say salute to you for your honesty about the estate sales and telling people what to watch out for✌️

Crazy! These scammers need to be dealt with! Good stuff

There is at least one company in my area that does this. Every estate sale is super high, and their business model is to guarantee the client that they will buy and clean out anything left so the client "don't get stuck with dealing with it" (at pennies on the dollar). They own an antique market that they sell most of it through.

A friend of mine did a tag sale for an estate recently via a real estate agent, she got half. She wanted it all sold in 2 weeks. Leftovers donated. She made deals and most was sold.

That sword at 2:03 with the gun handle is called Gunblade and is a replica sword from Final Fantasy VIII. Really neat! But very expensive sale...

I'll never understand why people use e-bay prices at estate sales where the purpose of the sale is to clear the house out .

Experienced this as well! The companies overprice the items so they can keep it for themselves and re-sell the items. We even had one worker take the items she wanted for herself, before the sale began and put them all in a bag behind her! She had no shame in doing that. When we asked about those items she said "was holding for someone" - mind you there was no customer and we were first in line, so knew she was lying. Gosh this company did not even organize anything. Just disgusting.

thanks for the info at the end. i always wondered how these "garage sales work"

Hit the nail on the head.

Shady estate sale companies are everywhere here in NJ. My list is huge of companies I ignore only a handful worth going to.

Recently ran into that, On 50% off day a lot of stuff was gone off-the-shelf from the night before

I'm pretty new to reselling. Have not hit estate sales yet. This information was incredibly valuable to me. I would not hesitate to call them out...a scam is a scam.

@TopClips7777

2 ай бұрын

Been doing this 22 years, you need a HUGE net to make it these days, by that I mean you need to be able to know what makes something valuable across the board. Used to be able to specialize. Also Boomers are dying so give priority to everyday stuff not "collectibles". Target what the current 30-50 year olds grew up with. Always be learning, always. I pull my phone out and randomly look things up throughout the day even when I'm not out buying. Women will buy jewelry and purses even when the economy sucks.

Also, some of these companies if they host (not Seller managed) the estate sale for you charge you upwards of $300 or 30% and 15% greater than $300. They don't even let you give your own items that don't sell to customers who are at the estate sale on the last day.

My Girlfriend and I went to this exact sale also mostly because it was cold and semi close to our house. You're absolutely right. Some of those items were ridiculously priced and then thrown in the middle of a bunch of literal trash. I remember saying to her, "there's no way that'll ever sell at that price" with that being said they did make us a sweetheart deal on a few things we did end up getting but all in all it was pretty disappointing.

Estate sales have gotten so bad around here in NC. Theres one company who does a lot of them and I've stopped going if theyre running it. The last estate sale i went to had everything priced at ebay value and somethings were priced 3x ebay prices. The most ridiculous thing was half a bottle of round up with a $5 sticker on it.

Annie's Estate Sales, Columbus Georgia. She actually has a Thrift Store where all the unsold super over priced stuff ends up at.

i wish you would have shown us more of the prices on things. It was like watching a silent movie

That seems to be how most estate sales around here in the tri state are anymore. At least the ones I've been stopping at.

I often wonder why these companies don't just offer to buy the families out to begin with? Why go through the "show"? I guess, like you said, it's how it works. And they do need to make it look like they are doing something. They must get it for SUPER cheap to go through the trouble of scamming the clients first. WOW! Thank you for the insight, John.

@TopClips7777

2 ай бұрын

Because free is better than not free

Those prices were rediculous 😂

Estate sales near me always seem to have sketchy people. I feel like they know so many buyers that they hold the good stuff aside just for them. I heard one lady saying she took some stuff home before the sale and paid the family. Thats bs in my mind.

I cleaned up at that sale, picked up a bunch of anime dvds and manga in those boxes in the basement. I was there on day one and I picked up 79 items for $40 and have already sold several of the dvds for anywhere from $35-100 each and some of the books for up to $45. I agree, the stuff they had priced individually was way over priced, but on the stuff they hadn't had time to look at and had just left thrown in those boxes I made out like a bandit!

@TopClips7777

2 ай бұрын

That's the trick! EVERYONE has blind spots, find them.

Have never been to an estate sale with these outrageous prices. Good advice!!

dang those prices... lets be honest these prices are high so that they dont sell and they can charge for cleanup and then sell the items themselves on their stores

Wow that was so disturbing to watch , glad you put this out there to show the scam

The company should want to get rid of the stuff, if they are responsible of getting rid of it. I paid a dollar for boxes of magazines, because they rather have me move the boxes out of the house so that they don't have to.

It’s not a small minority of estate companies that do this. It’s actually the opposite in my area.

Have a lady and husband who do these kind of cleanouts and over price everything. They do multiple per year and clickbait into saying its a “tag sale” prices extremely high and they are super rude asked to take 10$ off an expensive train set and she got mad and told me no and to put it back if i dont wanna pay her price.

That Soul Reaver case without the disk breaks my heart

Just went to an estate sale where they had $50/tote on miniature hallmark ornaments. I went up to ask if they had the ornaments in them because of few of the boxes looked empty. Come to find out…they were empty!! At no point did it say empty boxes! In fact, another worker told me they were full.

I hope you call the police on this estate scammer place.

@TopClips7777

2 ай бұрын

Cops don't even investigate murder anymore, why would they respond to this?

It'd be a SHAME if I accidentally dropped this Waterford rose bowl you have marked at $2500, scammer.

$90 for an old bricked XBOX, $30 for a Gundam model kit? Dude, I'd have walked out immediately after seeing that. Its obvious the seller is trying to get TOP DOLLAR for everything despite it not being worth it. That Gundam should have been 5-10 tops and that XBOX $15 naked as is, $20-$25 with all accessories "Untested" maybe $50 if it actually works. The lense goes bad on those if you breath on it too hard. Guaranteed red ring of death.

There is some dirt ball estate sale company by me and they do this. I’ve even heard the guy who runs the company will hide things from the sale so he can get it for nothing at the end. Straight robbery.

Those prices were shocking. Your experience John is appreciated. Feel bad for the owners but they gotta get in there if they are able and see whats going on. Many probably can't or are able bodied to do so. Sad

A few of the companies that I deal with have showrooms that most of the items end up at after the sale, and sometimes items make it to a different sale completely. Were they try to resell them again.

Unfortunately this is a common thing going on for a long time now. I avoid estate sales now. My buddy goes to a lot of these, and says the same thing about high priced stuff, and it’s all disorganized junk.

Wow, they want way too much money for all of that used stuff. There was a big local estate sale at a very large mansion-like house some years back. Old house, needed lots of work and they wanted like $750,000 for it, I think. Lots of rooms upstairs and downstairs. It seemed like each week they had more stuff added to the sale from before and this went on for a long time. I think they were using the property to sell other items from other places, as well. Eventually, some kind of local plant nursery or something bought the house that was on the corner of a busy road.

Thanks for the Estate Sale information. I’ve only been to 1 and plan on starting to go to more. I will definitely keep this information tucked in my brain! 😉

yup happened to my friends house overpriced things they wanted to keep because ti was agreed what didnt sell was given to the estate company. I always avoid certain estate companie because they take all the good stuff for themselves, then sell the trash at high prices. You will never find a big score there.

Aw man WTH I never thought of something like this... that's some grimy stuff

I will also ask if they have a brick and mortar store. If they do you will often find the items in their store the next week.

Thank you for pointing this out.

Probably have a deal with home owner that whatever they dont sell the company will give them a small % of what the price should be

Sadly this is what estate sales are becoming. EXPENSIVE Then on their "50% off" day, its the price it should have been in the first place..

Makes me feel lucky with my local estate sale companies. All honest, all decently priced.

here in florida there are tons and tons of estate sales I found a few will stage a sale where they bring in other items from other sales or antique stores to sell I was at one where the old man died and the son said the room with the golf stuff and military items was not his fathers The estate sale company made it look like it was the owners property but it want buyer beware I stat away from estate sales too overprices and you cant bargin with them

I’m with you there at that sale. A good company would probably hopefully organize better too. That’s good Information on estate sales.

I've been to one of these before. The house was filled with overpriced collectibles and nothing was selling. Tables and tables of items. Later I googled the company, lo and behold, the owner runs a vintage/antique shop downtown and has an ebay account where he resells all the leftovers. Craziest part was the nonstop contemporary Christian music they were blaring all over the house during the sale. Quite a contradictory image they're projecting.

You were generous to even buy those few items from them. When I saw that Xbox for $90.00 I about crapped in my pants. I could not believe they were asking so much money for basic crap. The toy trucks were super cool. Thanks for the video.

I like that Reds lid.

I assumed that was family trying to sell things because it looked a hot mess.

@cincinnatipicker

5 ай бұрын

Nope, it was a company

@ILOVEMALIBUUUU

5 ай бұрын

@cincinnatipicker embarrassing to put their name on a sale like that, IMO...

Those prices!!! Yikes!

Prices are just ridiculous. It's a yard sale. Not a retail store.

I don't go to any estate sales because my limited experience has revealed it's never worth it. I didn't know this kind of thing went on though. Wow.

Yeah some estate sale companies, especially out here in California are horrible and think they have gold! Some estate sale companies are good, most are crap that think they can ask full retail for certain item's that they know are highly sought after. These estate sale companies need to come back down to earth and if they want to sell there stuff, they need to bring down the prices, drastically!

I would have loved to have gone through that box of old Pokémon and yugioh cards I literally gasped so loud when I saw it! Such a shame they’re scamming tho… I get the feeling like the owner has passed and it’s their family trying to make some money

please tell me these people were willing to negotiate on price after they spilled the beans

It's sad that people will dupe other people and think it is a good thing to do. They need to be exposed.

It's like this a lot here in south Florida. Messy. And higher than ebay prices. Waste of time. The other day they wanted 125 for a Wii and 65 for a massage gun I could get in the box on ebay for 39. I managed to buy some vacuum attachments for 10 that I will get 5 or 6x my money for but a joke besides that. 😶

Funny coincidence because I just went to a 2 day estate sale last weekend that did the exact same thing. Some prices were fair but they were the inexpensive items. The high end items were the only ones over priced. Except I managed to find one that they accidentally priced wrong. And when I was about to purchase they wouldn't let me because they found out about their mistake. Long story short I had to paid an additional 110 BUT it was for an item that sells for $1000+. It's so far my best find but I honestly lucked out. If I didn't pay on the spot too they were going to raise the price multiplied by 5. ( they tried too ) ridiculous companies tbh

Hey John, ever thought of starting your own business doing estate sales? With your experience it would be easy and then you could sell the house when you are done selling the contents!

I got scammed for my parent estate in the exact same fashion.

Who woulda known…there’s a scam every where I look now a days. Like the scam when you’re buying storage units and people stock it with expense looking boxes and it sells for 5k and it’s all empty boxes. People don’t know this but all the proceeds go back to the renter of the unit. Easy 5k for empty boxes

The one by me just donates the rest of the stuff (which is usually old big furniture that is out of style and not old enough to be cool or collectable))

Wow. Never thought about it that way. Thanks for sharing.

Always check game cases!

Thanks for explaining the scams

I hit this sale on the first day when doors opened found mass anime manga filled a Ikea bag with anime and game guides I made over $500 on a $50 purchase. Everything is negotiable with them. It was a great start to my season it looks like they pulled more out for day 2. The guy who ran this used to be with one of the chain estate sale companies but no longer works for them he's actually a good guy. I went to a sale ran by him a few years back he pointed out something to me he thought would be good for ebay it was a 1947 army japan motorcycle lisence plate made $500 on it.✌

@Mar218100

4 ай бұрын

The box of books on the ground had Shonen Jump I bought 30 or so and have sold most. game informer and guides was your potential score they were essentially giving books away I told the cashier I didn't want to pay more than a $1 a book she gave me 100 books for for $50 with a mini vhs camcorder that sold for $100 in 3 days. I look for his sales because pricing is flexible and they consider all offers. The guy told me he was helping a family friend he's apparently under a NC with his former employee. Also those prices on trucks were negotiable you probably could've got a hell of a deal with some negotiations.😉

@Mar218100

4 ай бұрын

unfortunately calling them out as "scammers" has unleashed a bunch of uniformed comments. There is always higher priced wow factor eye catcher items at estate sales that's what gets folks out the key is finding the stuff that's a bit more under the radar. Benn watching for years John great work I just have had the opposite experience with this guy than you.

@cincinnatipicker

4 ай бұрын

I'm glad you were able to find some things! Honestly, I think both things can be true. You can find good deals on some items but overall, they are scamming the owner of the items. Just my opinion. Appreciate you watching!

Sad but true John, I don't know how anyone could sleep at night doing things like that to their clients, it was nice meeting you at our sale a few weeks ago in Westchester. We strive to be like wade estate liquidators. Nice people and a great company. Ian is a good friend of mine and gave me some advice when we started up last February. There's a right way and a wrong way to do estate sales, and this type of business makes the good ones look bad. Keep up the great work John!

@mindyqueen8388

5 ай бұрын

Was just at your sale last week and bought the blue Vitamix. You guys and Wade do it right. Keep doing how you guys are, word of mouth goes a long way

@Patriot-EstateLiquidation

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words. It means a lot.

$90 for an og xbox console lol.

thanks for exposing people like that🤘

Very good points... Thanks for sharing that

Its too bad that loved ones hiring these companies arent notified what they are really doing. I didn't know about this. Sounds like some families could get together and sue these scammers and put them out of business. The amount of crooks in this world is sad.

I'm an antiques broker by trade. I'm at multiple sales and estate calls weekly. IMO, this actually looks more like a start up company that really doesn't have much of a clue what they are looking at and scan a few things with their phones to come up with unrealistic prices. Again IMO, if they intended to defraud, she would have spent more time meticulously looking at your handful of items and gave you a much higher number after searching on her phone right in front of you. I've been to sales where they literally get hired to do the clean out of the property, and the sale is really just for them to make some side scratch before tossing everything into a 30 yard dumpster. In most instances of that kind, they swing for the fences with the prices, because they have nothing to lose. They're getting paid for the job no matter what.

Wow, high prices for a lot of stuff only to be throwing it away afterwards

Audio reminds me of 80s zombie movie, what is that noise? It’s head doing.

Those are crazy prices!!!

you know that they might looked a lot of that stuff up on ebay & gone from there.

there's a good stuff actually, like video games, toys, etc.