Estate Sales

lol, estatesales.net doesn't even have my town listed. I doubt I'd see much outside of the Detroit area, and that's a two hour drive one way so it wouldn't be worth the gas.

I used to garage sale at a rate of 200-300 a year. The wife discouraged me of going anymore. If you don't see it ask. Sometimes people are polite and respond nicely, others will answer "now why would I want to do that" or "you don't see it out here do you". If you hit lot's of garage sales personal insults don't matter, move on there are more garage sales down the street. Put it on Craigslist that you want to buy. Put 3" x 5" cards up in the entryway of stores or financial institutions that allow you to that you want to buy. Meijers does. If the seller has coins that you don't want if you can buy them and make a profit, do so. It's free money towards what you do want.
Happy Hunting

Broxman95........

I've never even HEARD of "estatesales.net".!....
ALSO.... I live in the second most populated city in my state.....I've NEVER EVEN LOOKED AT OR BEEN TO AN AUCTION IN MY OWN CITY !........
It's the very small "outlying towns" where the good estate auctions are going to be....and they're EVERY weekend all Spring, Summer, and Fall....all over the place around here !~!
Just search "auctions".......in your area......and "in that group" ......find "estate auctions".....then so on and so forth......
If your area is too large to "get out"......then yeah...might not be good for you to find any.
What they basically are is.....somebody dies such as husband or wife and they have an estate sale to get rid of everything.....motorcycles, trucks, garden tools, furniture, books, washer/dryers, paintings, antiques, jewelry, family heirlooms, full length mirrors, golf clubs......coin collections().....National Geographic collection, full silverware sets, table saws, farm equipment, all kinds of tools, office file cabinets, computer desks.....all of this stuff can/will be on ONE auction bill at ONE estate sale and they happen every day all over the place all of the time !
Anytime there's a death or someone moving away, etc. etc. etc. and they have a need for an auctioneers services.......there you go....
I just don't see why the Detroit suburbs and surrounding areas wouldn't ever have people die or move..?....

The main thing is to be aware of the difference between an estate sale and an estate auction. Many estate autions are run by a professional auction house. Many have ringers in the crowd that bid on items that are not moving well so as to bring up the prices. They have nothing to loose since if the ringer wins due to no other higher bids, they simply take that item to the next estate auction. This goes on all the time around me.
A true estate sale is usually when someone dies, divorced, move from a house to a condo, etc. They just have a person estate sale similar to a garage/yard sale except almost everything is for sale. The primary thing at such sales is to ASK. Many people at garage/yard/estate sales put items that could walk away in a safe place and out of sight for the general public. Many have jars, cans, boxes, etc of old coins slated to go to a bank. Many have guns, knives and other items they are not sure of what to do with so they hide them. If you ASK many will go get such items and ssll them to you. If they really don's want something they may even give them to you. I've received many guns that way. Once a lady went somewhere and came back with a large jar of old pennies slated for the bank. I made an offer of $50 and received a jar of cents (pennies) where the newest one was in the 50's.
The main thing here is to keep away from autions if you don't know what your doing. Stick to estate sales. And above all else, ASK.

I've had luck with pawnshops before. You could try that.

I have found some of the best deals at the local coin club meeting's auction or on bid boards. Never at a yard sale or estate sale. Knowledge and grading experience is what will keep you from big errors. There is no return policy with yard sales or estate proceedings.

Jim

How exactly do you tell the difference between a profession auction and estate sale online? I want to avoid the former from what I've seen. Should I just call?

Any other stories about getting silver under melt? I'm mostly after that, I have nothing to really do this summer anyway so some hunting would be fun as long as I don't have to drive two hours each way or something...

http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/a...448&kwd=coin

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