If you have an estate to settle think winter.
There are fewer and fewer garage sales, and yard sales, the booth owners in antique malls still need product to sell, as do flea market vendors. Mom and Pop antique shops need new (old) items as well. The period after Christmas and New Years Eve is a desert of sales, and while the need gets higher and higher, somehow the average estate seller still thinks they should hold on till spring. There are fewer things people can do during the winter and therefore more people who can attend an auction. In the spring and summer I have to compete against baseball, basketball games and all sorts of vacation plans, all of which remove buyers from your sale, during the winter school keeps most of your buyers in the area.
If you have an estate to settle, think winter. We have had some of our best sales during the winter. Auction people are hardy folk, they will look out the window and see it snowing and think, "it's snowing, no one else will be there, break out the parka!" and they will all dress like the Pillsbury dough boy, but they will come to the auction.
rob weiman
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