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    2 years ago

    runs a great auction! Gair to both sides and always has a great crew.cant wait for the next one.

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    Sisters In Charge Tag Sales Professionals - Two Awards January 2015  Top 50 Most Viewed in the United States &  #1 Most Viewed Company in New York State

    Sisters In Charge Tag Sales Professionals

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    THE WORST !!! DO NOT USE!!! Unprofessional. Estate sale was a fail. Over priced most Items. Then…read moregave me a quote double what 2 other companies quoted me to remove all remaining furniture & items. Forced closed a mirrored closet door, left dinning room chairs/furniture outside...leaned a large ( 5 x 3 ft ) very heavy mirror against a large window also crushing the custom blinds. They DO NOT respect the customers homes...they aren't good at math either... So do your own math. They don't return your call unless they're trying to get your business. Once they have your business they do not care about you or anything in your home...had I read the reviews for sisters in charge I would not have hired them...

    I strongly advise against utilizing their online auction service if it's offered to you…read more For starters their contracted split is 60/40 for their services (60% you/40% them). That is a high commission compared to most Long Island based auctioneers I contacted. Most were in the 30% range. Worse, once all of their fees were accounted for? The final split of the sale was actually: 73% THEM and 27% us! In some ways it honestly felt like I was just providing them a means of employment and profit while they practically gave our stuff away. You can do much better for your family selling your own items. After our estate sale with Sisters in Charge (SIC) ended, I sold just 15 or so leftover items myself and made almost TRIPLE in sales on just those few items than I made in total with SIC running our auction of over 200 items that took them 2 months to put together and execute. So in brief: 1) Their current online auction business model is a complete ripoff. 2) Their advertised & contracted split is extremely misleading. 3) You waste a lot of valuable time waiting for their assessments and other appointments. 4) You can do MUCH better just selling items yourself and do so in much less time. That's the short version of this review but if you're interested in more details of my very bad experience with this company, feel free to read on: The lead up to the auction: The entire process took 2 long months. Most of that was spent by us waiting for SIC appointments. I waited 3 weeks for an initial assessment appointment and I signed the contract based on that very positive (and I believe honest) initial assessment. I then waited another 3 weeks for a photography appointment. Photography sessions: The contract I signed states: "Relocators DBA Sisters In Charge will, at NO ADDITIONAL charge, catalogue, organize, arrange, and inventory all items to be sold." Not stated in this contract is that they charge a $310 fee PER DAY for all the photography they do to post online for the auction. I was separately informed of this fee but I find it strange that it is not listed in the contract. Mindful of this high fee, I spent days going through our entire house, cleaning, organizing and grouping items in sections to try and help expedite the time needed for photography. I sent SIC a detailed email explaining how everything was organized within the house and included pictures with my explanations. It seems that email was largely, if not completely ignored. Upon the completion of their photography sessions, I was surprised to find how many items were passed over by the photographers that their own assessor had told me would most likely sell very well. I was even more surprised how much time the photographers devoted to cataloging and photographing items that their assessor had told me wouldn't sell well at all (DVD's, etc). Auction is scheduled: Seeing not much of any advertising/posts or on SIC social media promoting any of their online auctions, I took initiative on my own and advertised our upcoming auction on collector group sites, etc. The more time passed, the more I was regretting my decision to go with this company. However, the contract lists open ended cancellation/admin fees so I felt we should just ride out the auction at this point and avoid losing more time and money. Day of Auction: At auction so many of our high value items remained at, or just slightly higher than the $2 minimum bid that with less than 30 minutes left, I quickly created an account and started bidding ON MY OWN ITEMS to avoid watching them sell for so cheap. Doing this I was actually able to get the majority of items into a decent bid range and I could move on to the next. One such item was a second away from selling low, I put in a bid for $14 and that in-turn kicked off a bidding frenzy. It eventually sold for $80 - the highest bid of our entire auction. Keep in mind, by doing this I not only made a better profit for myself but by default, it made a better profit for SIC/Relocators as well. In the end, I "won" bids on about 8 items. Again...THESE WERE MY OWN ITEMS! Post-Auction: Given the circumstances I nicely asked SIC if they could forgo their 40% cut on just the 8 or so items I "won". As a final insult, they actually said No to this request. Supposedly this decision came straight from the owner of the company. Their 40% cut on those few items amounted to just $52 dollars!! A small amount that could have gone a long way in making this entire disappointing ordeal a little more palatable for their client. Fortunately for most of us, an Estate sale such as this is an experience we hopefully only have to go through once in our lives, if we are lucky. Unfortunately, that makes our experience with SIC/Relocators a lesson learned not only the hard way but way too late for us. But not too late for others if I can help it.

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