09/07/2026
Hey everyone, just wanted to say thank you to everyone who came to the sale in Andrews this weekend. Attached here are some pictures of the truck in our sale NEXT weekend. This sale is out on spur 60. More pictures tomorrow!!! We have more sales scheduled, but, well more on that later...
We had over 950 folks at our sale and over 14,000 hits on our posting. Over 3200 UNIQUE viewers. So, that sale reached a ton of people and basically 1/3rd of them showed up. You are amazing and we thank you!!!
However, we did have a couple of complaints and I would like to address them.
1. We have talked about this before. Cards. We take cash, we take checks. 90% of the sales we do, we do not have internet service there. Also, card payments can be canceled and we have little recourse if they are. We are out. Every time we mention it, folks tell us they do not want the fee added to their bill. (And again, no service this weekend or next weekends sale. No service at the one in Hayesville in a month either.) No card info is in our Bio, and it was mentioned in the comments in our posting this week too.
2. We work for the Estate. Once again, we had someone complaining that our prices were too high. We get our prices as an average of solds on the internet and then reduce them by 25 to 50% NO shipping costs either. Do we get it right all the time? No, but based on how we did this weekend and how many $1 items and $5 box lots are gone. Guess we are doing ok. However if we are asking $40 for a 75 year old Case knife with bone handle in the original box, and you tell me that's "WAY" too ###x high, how about $10, yea, I might be a little rude. Especially, if im tired.... Also, im not taking $2000 for something I can get the family $6500 on a different platform like whatnot.
3. Hold area. Please do not mess with anything in the hold area. Did have a suggestion about marking it off, thanks Paul, excellent idea. We will do that. If any of you have any suggestions on how to make our sales better, PLEASE let us know. However, we can not let stuff sit in the hold area for 3.5 hours while you go get some $$$. 1/2 and hour, sure. One to 2 hours? That's pushing it. Over 3 hours? Sorry, our job is to sell for the estate. Our job is to make money for the estate. I can't do that if someone has pulled some stuff and it sits the rest of the day by the cash table. Banks were 2 miles away. Banks are generally closed on Saturday and Sunday. ATMs are easy. Whatever the issue is. Me and adult. Don't call my daughter a moron. (And then complain about us being rude!?!?!?)
4. If you like what we do and how we do it? Please let us know. PLEASE POST A REVIEW! If we have done something you don't like. PLEASE TELL ME. However, we are working for the estate. They are who my contractis with.
Finally, we are having to make some decisions here. All the work we did on this estate, at 25% commission, does not help us put up with all of the negativity.
Other companies charge more commission AND have 2x and 3x our prices on everything. Yet we get slammed for it, they get 5 star reviews. Thinking it's about time to say to heck with it. I know some of the negative reviews are from the competition, but...
Anyway, thanks for a great sale. Great seeing everyone.
