Estate auctions

RatLabGuy

RatLabGuy

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So there's an estate auction up teh street from me, figured I'd go for the hell of it. Never been to one.
The flier/info says it starts at 9. Does that mean the auctioning actually starts at 9, or that's when teh doors open? At what point, and typically in what capacity, is the stuff open to be viewed so you know what you're getting?
 
They can't aution everything at once...go a little before 9 and look around at what is there, everyone I've been to there was plenty of time to look around.
 
Excellent, thanks.
It looks like most of the stuff is sitting out under a shed in the back yard. I'd thought about just going by and lookin garound... but it IS still private property, although empty, so that's still tresspassing.

FYI they have a '96 Nissan truck w/ only 63,000 miles if somebody's lookin. Classic, old folks never drove it I'm sure.
 
Of the few I've been to, all the good stuff usually goes pretty early, with the crap sitting around until the end...The last one I went to ended up where the auctioneer was auctioning off entire rooms' worth of stuff...some went as low as $50...but for that, you get a lot of junk and maybe a few good things...
I'd definitely call, find out the specifics, and plan to get there early.
 
Yeah, normally that means they start auctioning at 9. Just go a bit before hand and look around. The deals are normally in the first 2-4 boxes, then everybody gets bid happy. Then near the end when people have left and the auctioneer is tired they start grouping a bunch of stuff together.
 
Only one I have been to is my wife's aunt's. Went on all day. They mix in the good stuff to keep you around.... like some antique furniture that several people went to the auction specifically for, waited until about 2pm to start bringing it out. At that...they'd do one big/desirable item, then several lots of "stuff", then something else good.

What gonemuddin1 said is true...at the tail end everything left was cheap, in big lots ("everything to my left that isn't bolted down") and started at like a dollar for the lot. Might have been worth .50. :)
 
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