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This. The point of the estate sale is for someone else to deal with the sorting, disposal, sale etc. And the sale can offset some of the fee. It's not about making money but making it easier for the family. [/quote]

And for an estate sales company to make money, it has to grab the lowest of the low-hanging fruit, so no one is going to figure out if any of the books are valuable or if there's something in any of those boxes.

Ours came and went, and a few days later my brother came downstairs with a box containing silver. Labeled as containing silver. But we hadn't read the labels of the stuff in that room yet, and the estate sales company (a local one) hadn't done more than look in the room, see that there wasn't a Chippendale secretary or Stickley bookcase in there, and move along.

The odds that there would be a bunch of sterling in a random box is pretty low, so the company was being economically rational. But if you're going to go through all the stuff to make sure the tea service makes it out (to auction, to be melted, whatever), you might as well call the junk haulers and a house cleaner yourself. [/quote]

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