Anyone here ever get a really good item?

Truck loads of good items. They can be addictive.

Keith

Yes i I picked up both a 39 a and pre safety 357 marlin at an estate auction got them both for 200 less than the 357 were selling for. First time I saw a gun auction thing were not sky high.

Bought a literal pickup load Thursday evening at an estate sale. Bought traps and new or like new duck and goose decoys for pennies on the dollar. Bought shotgun and.22 ammo at basically 1/2 price.
The guns were high as a cats back, but most everything else sold from dirt cheap to well worth the money.

I had hit a few, One a lady was selling off her late husbands things, got a Stihl chainsaw looked almost new. $25, had another one i bought a few things at, they just setting things up. fishing reels penny's on the dollar. I'm in need of having a big sale here now. to many hobbies.

wws

Yep, 16' aluminum jet boat on a new trailer, with a brand new Yamaha 40hp jet (60hp prop), for $1750.
The other guys looking at it thought the engine was seized because the pull rope would not pull, they didn't notice it was in gear and it's designed to not let you pull it when in gear.
The boat had sat a few years and was covered with black mold/algae which is typical if you store something outside in the shade in the PNW. It looked terrible, stopped by a car wash on the way home and cleaned it right up.

WOW the trailer alone is worth that

Not generally, here it's yard sales mostly, recycled crap....occasionally something decent, but you got the sharpshooters going to the sales early in the morning....to buy stuff for THEIR yard sales, lol.

Missed one yesterday on the east side of the state. My nephew was there, sold a NIB Remington 700 in 17 rem for $1,250. Someone got a deal!

Just picked up a Model 788 Remington in 7mm-08 for about $300 less than what they are selling for on average.

Once bought a brass bed. Back in the 70s.

I once bought a mattress. I wonder if we were at the same sale.

My daughter likes to paint. At one estate sale I got 30 blank 30x40 inch canvases for $5 each and about 50 large tubes of oil paint for $75. Also bought 92 pounds of pewter for $45.

My buddy just picked up a pre war Colt woodsman match target pistol for $125. He texted me a photo and asked if he should buy it!?!? think I was screaming “yes, but it” while texting back.

I find estate sales to be quite pricey. The prices often start near retail or even eBay asking prices. Estate auctions, however, are the opposite. I've been attending a local estate auction weekly for several years now, and that's where you can find some awesome deals.

Picked up a wooden stool and a library desk from the San Francisco opera house at an estate yrs ago here in Oregon. These items probably migrated up here with the California creep

1930s I believe

Had to clean the tooty fruity off .....

If the sale is run by the family usually cheaper and easier to get bargains. A lot of pro companies now and they are aware of how to price items. Still they have to sell it so deals can be had if you know how they operate.

Often, estate sales run by professional companies mark everthing down 50% on Sunday (after a weekend sale).

Not an estate sale but I just got 4 almost full boxes of 20 gauge #6 lead, and #4 steel mostly 2 3/4 but a few 3" at a garage sale today. There was 7 foster slugs in the odd ball box instead of shot. Gave 5 bucks a box. That's about it for me. Talked to the guy for a couple hours or so about mostly hunting but other stuff too.

I mentioned I used to trap and am thinking about getting back into it. He said he wished he knew that and he told me that he had about 25 or 30 traps, some conibears of all sizes along with foot traps that were left at a rental mobile home he used to own after the tenant had died. His kids came and didn't want them so they left them. He wound up taking them to the scrap yard for junk when he took his aluminum cans over awhile ago. I knew where he was going with his story before he even said it. It made me a little sick and I haven't even set a trap in over 25 years. I hope the junk yard guys set them off to the side as in this rural area one of them has to know someone that traps.

I usually drive by garage sales unless I see something hunting related. I have yet to find any traps at one and I live on the Mississippi river and close to the Wisconsin river.

Do flea markets count? I was at one a few years ago and a seller had a sack of tracks including a couple of #3 and #4 long springs. I was trying to get a price out of him, thinking $5.00 a trap offer, when my wife says she will give him a $1.00 a trap. He looked at her for a second and said "Ok he didn't want to pack them home". I put them in the truck as fast as I could. I always let her do the dickering no matter what we are buying. When we buy a vehicle I sit in the car until she comes out to tell me if we are leaving or going home with a different vehicle.

Bought a Dryse 3.65 belgian (32 acp) pistol at my Uncles estate auction He brought it home after WW1 for $160.00 reason being I called the auctioneer and asked if they done the paperwork ad if my cpl was all he needed He said NO if you don'have a purchase permit your not buying a handgun at my auctions so I got one bidding started at 150 i bid 160 and he asked if anyone who wanted to bid had their paperwork i pulled my permit out no one else did He said sold

Usually estate sales are good to go to, as they sellers want to get rid of things quickly making the prices decent. Moving sales are good too. They usually want to sell as much a they can so they don't have to haul it with them. Last summer at a moving sale I got two wheelbarrows for a buck apiece and a box of spooled assorted fishing line for $3.00.

Estate sales/auctions are chaotic around here and pricey but I am patient and get my share. What makes it easier for me is I dont care what it is as long as I can flip it and make money. Got a Wagnerware Magnalite roaster last week for 3.00 and it just sold for 150.00. 5 people ahead of me passed on it ort didnt see/know it.

Auctions around here are high now. In Indiana you can still find rural sales with deals. Some people travel around and buy up stuff over in Indiana, bring it back, and then reauction it off over here. I stood at an equipment sale this winter getting snowed on and figured I'd get a deal on something b/c it was cold and blowing all day. I went home empty handed.

The estate auction i hot a good deal on the guns at I was ther for a tractor and or 3 point tiller not the guns. The tiller sold for more than a new one( it did look new but) and the tractor sold for 1700 less than list price on a new one.

I think it all depends on who showed up. I have been so busy working the last several years it was hard for me to spend limited time ar a sale and not get deals so had quit going. It may be something I get back into as I cut back and have more time. Would be something to do and not physically demanding. May be a fun hobby to flipping things. Mom was smiling this week feling accomplished having bout some items for $3 at a yard sale snad selling them for $15 each within 30 mins.