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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 4406820, member: 13464&quot;][USER=141]@pearlsnblume[/USER] OMG! That is unreal!</p><p>The craziest one we did was the first one. We desperately needed/wanted a sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>This gal came to us and said that she desperately needed a sale for her aunt and uncle&#039;s house. They had both gone in a nursing home and she needed every penny she could get for their bills. She also said that we HAD to move everything - as she didn&#039;t want the neighbors to all go visit the aunt and uncle and say &quot;look what we got&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>We took the sale. It was the most awful assortment of crap. They had been heavy smokers. EVERYTHING reeked! Everything had a yellow sticky residue. We washed, priced and packed what we could. Nearly every piece of glassware had a chip or crack. Furniture was mid-century usta be aqua living room furniture. </p><p><br /></p><p>Begged a realtor to let us furnish a house she had on the market - God love her she agreed! We moved everything to the other location across town.</p><p><br /></p><p>Day of the sale - we had a tiny crowd of about 20 people. First time there had been a &quot;Official Estate Tag Sale&quot; in our community. They came in, in a little pack, shuffled through like a little team of cockroaches, and shuffled out as quick as they came in. No sales! AGGGGH!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>CLEARLY we had overpriced the crap! SO, our next move was not letting anyone leave without buying SOMETHING! We wheeled and dealed! Begged and offered &quot;buy one get one&quot;! We had planned to run 3 days. Full price lasted a couple hours instead of all day. We quickly moved to 30% off and then 1/2 off before the end of the day. Offered bag lots.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sunday (which in a churchy community was CLEARLY a bad idea) was a total bust. No one showed. Now we are scratching our heads wondering what to do with &quot;most of the original contents&quot;. SIGH! Fortunately, someone who had come earlier to the sale came back with a trailer and offered us X amount for the whole remainder! We jumped on it. Gone - out the door!</p><p><br /></p><p>I think we handed off a check to the executor of somewhere around $2000. Believe it or not; she was thrilled! WE, of course, perhaps made a buck an hour for all the time we put in - if that! But, we learned a lot AND did have our first sale behind us!</p><p><br /></p><p>The next sale we had was much much better! Even had fun at that one!</p><p>Yah... whew!</p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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