Talk:Estate sale

2004
I think this could grow to be a healthy article. Estate sales attract a whole sub-culture of people, with their own world of antiques, business tactics and strategies... Ebeisher 06:15, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Question about editing this page
I am new to Wikipedia. I saw that someone had a link to a page about yard sales, so I thought I would edit the page and put a link to my site which is about estate sales. My site is a commercial site. I gather that commercial sites are not allowed since after I made that change, someone removed both links and then kind of threatened me. I had linked to my main site page. Would it better to link to a page that describes what estate sales are, numbering systems, estate sale etiquette, etc?

I am assuming that this is probably the wrong way to ask about this but since I didn't see a way to contact the user, I thought this might be ok. Please let me know where to post if this is not right. Here are the sites that I referenced above:  EstateSales.NET is the main site. EstateSales.NET/Learn is the site where there is good information ABOUT estate sales. Mmcquade 22:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * You would be correct, commercial sites are forbidden (the other one should never have been posted either) - but feel free to add your knowledge of other matters! bd2412  T 22:07, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Merge
I've proposed a merge from Estate liquidation into Estate sale. The liquidation article states there is some sort of distinction, but then does not explain how they are different. Reading the two articles, it seems to me that they are the same thing. -- Whpq (talk) 11:56, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

The major differences between an estate sale and an estate liquidation is that with a total liquidation the liquidator hired often deals with fine jewelry, stocks, bonds, paper money, coins, real property and vast amounts of value and worth of an entire estate whereas a mere in house estate sale can vary from being only a purging of their home's collection of a families collection of furniture, antiques, collectibles and general household items. An estate sale can be done in two to four days with a week or so prep time where an estate liquidation can take weeks, months or even years. It seems then that an estate liquidation and an estate sale are in my opinion (having gone through giving each type for over 23 years) two vastly different subjects and while they merge at several points of interest; people from the public are offered the ability to buy these things the family or heirs no longer want or need, they are quite different in many facts of point and interest. Thanks for allowing me to discuss these differences. I also see them as paralleled as yard sale to estate sale, flea market to antique malls. (talk) 11:20, 17 December 2008 (UTC)