I have been working with Weschler's for over a year and I can not be more pleased. I help people…read moredownsize and also rehome property when a love one passes away. I was working with another auction house and found Weshler's was great for some items and the others I take to another auction house for my clients. Here is what I have learned.... when I am unsure of an item like upholstered furniture I send them a picture and they tell me yes or no. Now let me tell you a story, I had a client that had some very "expensive" art work according to the appraisal . Most of the art sold at Weshler's for about 20% of the appraisal others went for twice the appraisal. The client was disappointed at some of the prices but was blown away at one piece of art that sold for $66,000.00 and was only appraised at 20k. Another house I found some wonderful Danish mid century modern furniture and looked it up on line and I saw the same set listed on a few other sites for a 1k+, I took it in to the auction house and Mark told me that this was a less well know manufacturer and it would sell for around $200.00, it sold for $300.00. This is my advise, ask them, send them pictures and what you think is worth the most isn't.

Amazing art and furniture up for bid plus a friendly, helpful team. Payment and pickup are so…read moresmooth!! Thanks Team Weschler's!

Called right back did me the biggest favor by coming by my house answered all my questionsread more

Joanne is a true pro! We have worked together for years (I am a Realtor) and she is top notch. Her…read moreadvice, expertise, and experience is unparalleled. Highly recommend her services.

I come all the time on their sale and Ill tell you, probably one of Best Estate Sale in the Tri…read moreState region of DC, M.D. and VA. Ms. Jo, is the most nicest and very easy to deal with and Brette, is cool and knows how the business is done. Very organize, resonable and professional.

This sale company has gone cuckoo for Cocoa puffs with their pricing, nothing is priced in the…read morerealm of reality. Not even close to affordable anymore. Don't need to go on the first day.

Very helpful gave insights that should had communicated from the start by wills court.read more

Mark is very well experienced, and very professional. It was…read morea pleasure dealing with him and getting things appraised. He has a calm tone, which bring confidence and value to the things her appraise.

I found ez Downsizing through my neighbor, who would frequently show me the great items she had won…read moreat their auctions. Curios, I tried bidding myself and I've been a regular buyer ever since! NO other estate sale company compares when it comes to efficiency, honesty, professionalism & integrity. I can be in and out in 10 minutes when I arrive for a pick up, as their staff has most items already consolidated for each customer. I have NEVER experienced this level of efficiency anywhere else!!! I have tried several other estate sales over the years and it was a given that I would have to waste half or most of my day, just waiting for someone to track down my purchases, often not finding them at all. Since finding ezd, I have not gone back to any other estate sales because no one else even comes close to this level of service & speed when you go to retrieve your items. All of their staff seems to be thoroughly enjoying their work - they are enthusiastic, helpful, super knowledgeable and actually care about their customers. Their customer service alone deserves a 10 star rating because it has been a truly exceptional experience every single time! You can even reach a real person when you call, which by itself, is extremely impressive nowadays, in my opinion. Please keep up the amazing work you all are doing!

TL;DR Poor up-front communications, hiding the fact that they went on vacation while our auction…read morewas active, suboptimal policies only on our auction it seemed (red letters on our auction, unlike others, saying things like DO NOT BID IF YOU CANNOT COME DURING THIS WINDOW OF TIME), over-promising and under-delivering, once auction started they stopped communicating altogether and just sent the payout and moved on. They also listed items that were literally part of the house, which we luckily got them to remove in time. The positives: I will mention they did it at short notice, and they waved the $3500 fee to do an online auction. They combined our auction with other auctions to increase the bulk of the auction. Those things we appreciated. And, in person, his wife was nice and I tried to keep things moving to respect her time. But, the actual sale execution had some flaws. The situation: Needed to clear out an estate to sell a house, but was left with too much furniture. Most of the other stuff got donated (and was literally trash). Many other estate-sale people turned us down. The experience started when we discovered "ezAuctions" was out of business. Then our agent mentioned "ezDownsizing" .. In this estate there was a $20000 bedroom set (retail, 1980s, vintage Ralph Lauren), where just one of the pieces had recently sold on ebay for $8000. Most of the other stuff we knew was not that valuable. I was very skeptical. Guy on the phone who called us back (Clay? Brian? No idea...he was The Husband) .. very pushy, said we had only 1 day to "fit it in", and also said exactly what we wanted to hear. "You've got an auction with $6000-8000 dollars easy, maybe even up to $12000 but I don't like giving numbers" ... well, he was way off. The entire auction netted $4k, and we got 60% of that, minus some odd fees that they tacked on that had to do with "no sale items" which I still to this day do not know what we paid for but it added up to another $108 we owed them. His wife arrived and asked us "not to be there" when they took pictures. I get it, people probably tell meaningless stories about the items. It's probably super annoying. Still, it meant they made mistakes by listing parts of the house that were not to be sold at auction, like the whole house central vacuum, and light fixtures. Probable reasons it didn't do well: house was far away from any nearby town and had a Friday afternoon 2 hour window for pickup. This was a bad oversight. Needed a Saturday pickup window. Also, they went on vacation while doing the auction. They stopped responding to our texts and messages. If you just want stuff "gone gone gone" this is a company that will do that for you. If you want to get some value out of it, consider other options. I had been given a 50% off rental for a truck and should have driven it to Everything-But-The-House in Columbus, where the auctions are taken care of in a warehouse and the commissions are way less. (its a sliding scale where higher priced items have less commission!) 40% commission across the board: meaning on anything that sells for more than $1. And yeah, things sold for $1. There's no way to do "reserve" In Pittsburgh, there is a similar service called Hostettlers Auctions (or something like that). I think they use the exact same software. One thing about the Pittsburgh auction house (unrelated company) is that in the fine print they say they actually bid-up on items that are not selling for much. For example I bought through them 10 radios and in the last moments they "bid up" the radios to get more value out of me. I didn't love that they did that, but now that I've been on the other side, I would have appreciated it if they had that sort of service. I had put some stuff into the sale as well, and after I gave them $4000 worth of functional equipment and got $125, I regretted it. I should have also taken my stuff to Columbus instead of to them. What a waste. Even though I explained everything worked and came with spare parts to replace everything that could possibly break in my 3D printing lot, for whatever reason they wrote "UNTESTED MAY NOT WORK" on my auction listings and there was nothing I could do or say to stop it. Just some tidbits: $1200 worth of Snapper XD pro-grade lawn care equipment sold for $17 $2000 worth of 3D printing equipment sold for $200 $20000 Ralph Lauren Safari 3-piece bedroom set sold for slightly less than $2500 (mahogany matching bed, wardrobe, 21-drawer chest) $3600 curved glass antique vintage tiger maple china cabinet sold for $131 .. I had removed the shelves and for some reason they wrote on the listing "May have to take back off to put shelves back in" but that's definitely not the case. Again, no way to correct it. May have affected sale.

I went to an estate sale they were running and they did such a fantastic job! As a consumer, I was…read morepleased how fair they were. I saw people trying to haggle over every single item, which they didn't go for, but were willing to negotiate on some items. They seem like a very professional company and I would recommend them to both families in search for a reliable company and people at estate sales.

I had a similar experience to the other reviewer (David). The trend I see is that if you stay in…read morethe area you have a better experience. Nina did struggle with communication and often didn't appear at the time she committed to and was not reaching out to us about next steps. She didn't do any of the staging or work to prepare for the sale. Nina explained that she normally only does that for sales where she expects to net $10,000. Wish I had known that before starting to work with her. We continued with her because we were in a hurry to sell our home under the rising interest rate conditions. We did all the work of moving things around. She did sell a lot of our furniture and I don't really know if it was a fair value as we had tried to sell some ourselves and didn't have terrific luck. Basically no one wants your stuff and we had very nice stuff (Crate and Barrel and Pottery Barn furniture) which did sell during the estate sale. When our patio furniture was moved to another house for a sale she said the movers charged $30 an hour - but she charged us $125 after saying she would split it with us. There was also no closing report for that sale so we didn't know what it sold for although she gave us some money. More troubling was that there was very little accounting of what was sold. The 'closing report' turned out to be a photo of a piece of paper with some of the major items on it - but nothing else. While I realize used furniture is not worth much it was disconcerting to work with a company that had so little accounting or reporting. Nina also took awhile to distribute the funds to us - over two weeks. Contractually that is allowed but again why so long and no closing report except for a phone photo of a piece of paper and for the first sale only - none for the second when she took our furniture to another house.

Online buyer beware. I bought a MCM desk based on a thumbnail photo, assuming that the company…read morewould disclose major flaws. They do not. When I arrived to pick it up, I saw that the legs were cracked and barely standing, and old epoxy repairs had failed. The company refused to refund me. They agreed to a discount of $100. By the time it was in my car, the legs were in pieces and now I have to dispose of it.

Positive experience with professionals. Appreciated the ability to host an online sale following an…read morein-person sale which provides another opportunity for buyers. Top notch customer service.

Seen they were having another sale on the estatesales app in Bowie, MD and decided to check it out…read more Very friendly employees and even greeted me upon entering. I had been to two of their prior sales. One of them was a massive mansion in Chevy Chase and the other a victorian house in Bethesda. At the Chevy chase sale I must have spent a little over $500+ on various luxury furniture items which would have cost a fortune in the high end stores and also purchased a couple of small items like books and stuff. The guy running the sale I forgot his name but he gave me a awesome deal on the stuff. Also even help me load the small stuff in my car. Had to call a buddy with a pickup truck to haul the furniture items. At the Bethesda I purchased a diamond ring for a girl I was planning on marrying which didn't work out. I didn't want to continue the relationship. So I took it to a jewelry store to get it cleaned and polished and they said I got a good deal on it so I'm still happy. I can always get it resized for the next fiancé. Lol. The Bowie sale I just purchased a few silver coins. I would advise everyone come early to these guys sales. The Chevy Chase sale had a massive line of people waiting but they were letting like 30 people in at a time. They tend to get the big houses and mansions with the rare and awesome stuff so I definitely recommend checking out their sales. Only downfalls is parking can be a little tricky due to the massive crowds of their sales. But with any estate sale I always go early. Also some of the other customers get a little crazy at the sales because of the rare stuff people find. Overall A+++++

Other reviewers are wholly correct on how potential buyers are treated. If you value informative…read moreinteractions or basic respect, I'd look for other options. There's no shortage of estate sales in the area.