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<p>[QUOTE="rick, post: 57106, member: 1235"]basically, yeah. An estate can be anything from a small group to an entire garage sale in one. Is it a gimmick - absolutely. There's a lot of interesting stuff. The question is, does any one person want all of it. If everything there was valued appropriately, I could see someone who runs a shop buying this sort of lot, because you could sell off significant sections, and maybe turn a profit - IF everything was not completely blown full of hype.</p><p> </p><p>I think that's the idea behind there huge estates... throw in everything you can possibly over-state, and all together, it creates this massive excitement. There were four of five things in that one that I drooled over, myself...</p><p> </p><p>take a look at the loose gemstones? What's anyone going to do with a bunch of loose stones like that, if you don't have a desire to keep them? I wouldn't even know how to begin to move that sort of inventory... nobody will buy them from you except resale on ebay, where you take your chances in getting a few cents on the dollar.</p><p> </p><p>Those paintings might be beautiful, but if you have ever gone to an estate auction - it is absolutely embarrassing how cheap that sort of stuff goes for.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rick, post: 57106, member: 1235"]basically, yeah. An estate can be anything from a small group to an entire garage sale in one. Is it a gimmick - absolutely. There's a lot of interesting stuff. The question is, does any one person want all of it. If everything there was valued appropriately, I could see someone who runs a shop buying this sort of lot, because you could sell off significant sections, and maybe turn a profit - IF everything was not completely blown full of hype. I think that's the idea behind there huge estates... throw in everything you can possibly over-state, and all together, it creates this massive excitement. There were four of five things in that one that I drooled over, myself... take a look at the loose gemstones? What's anyone going to do with a bunch of loose stones like that, if you don't have a desire to keep them? I wouldn't even know how to begin to move that sort of inventory... nobody will buy them from you except resale on ebay, where you take your chances in getting a few cents on the dollar. Those paintings might be beautiful, but if you have ever gone to an estate auction - it is absolutely embarrassing how cheap that sort of stuff goes for.[/QUOTE]
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