Unlocking The Mystery: How Do Estate Sales Work?

When facing an estate sale, you might feel like you're about to climb a steep mountain. Whether you're an estate trustee wrapping up an estate, pondering downsizing or embarking on a decluttering spree, MaxSold is by your side.

An estate sale is a total household clearance. It’s the selling off of an entire home's contents, typically prompted by major life changes such as death, relocation or downsizing. 

In these situations, online marketplace solutions designed for selling one or two items at a time don’t work particularly well. Photographing, describing, listing and pricing each individual item is an overwhelming task - and that’s just the first step. Haggling with buyers, and arranging for payment and pickup adds more stress to an already pressure-filled situation.

MaxSold is a different kind of marketplace. We make the process easy, efficient and painless, because  we’ve been specializing in estate sales and downsizing for over 10 years. 

Imagine everything gone within 2 weeks with no fuss, for fair prices, and with no junk hauler fees to pay.

MaxSold’s Proven 4-Step Process

We work with you to determine which MaxSold service option best meets your needs.Then, we plan and schedule your auction.

Our experienced team will come to you to help you organize your items into auction lots for maximum sell-through and price realization. Next, we’ll photograph and catalog everything for your online sale. 
Prefer to take the lead? Do-it-yourself solutions are also available.

We’ll showcase your auction to thousands of local buyers with emails to MaxSold bidders in your area plus targeted online marketing.

What people say about us

“I had no idea what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised by all the help and guidance I received!“
Colleen Bryans

“We are very happy that we selected MaxSold to auction the remaining contents of our home after we moved“
Linda L.

MaxSold takes the Stress out of Estate Sales 

Do you have an overwhelming number of items to clear out? MaxSold has the perfect solution for you. 

Let us take care of you. From taking the photos and writing the descriptions to managing buyer payment and pickup. It’s all on us!

If you’re keen to tackle the job yourself, we have self-serve solutions available too.

We help you sell everything from the car in the driveway to the cleaners under the sink. Imagine - everything gone in just 2 weeks. We do the work, and you get paid! No junk hauler fees to pay, and everything gets loved again instead of going into landfill. 

With roots in a family owned auction company founded in 1956, MaxSold has been in business for over a decade. With a team of over three hundred trained staff spanning the US and Canada, we are local auction experts who manage all the details for your downsizing or estate sale.

Streamline your estate sale with a MaxSold online auction

When you’ve got a houseful of items to clear out, MaxSold is the best solution to get it sold and cleared away fast and painlessly, for fair prices. 

Why run a yard-sale for dozens of neighbors when you can showcase your items to thousands of potential buyers online? Why haggle over prices with classified marketplace buyers when you can have competing bidders increase the selling prices?

AS SEEN IN THE MEDIA

We guide you through 4 easy steps from sale to clear out in just 2 weeks.

Reach Thousands of Local Buyers

We showcase your auction to active MaxSold bidders in your area and promote your auction online. 

Timely Clearance

With over a 90% sell-through rate, everything gets hauled away by winning bidders in less than a day!  From the car in the driveway to the cleaners under the sink!

Decoding Estate Sales

MaxSold makes it Easy! 

Everything Sold and Gone!

Step 1: Estate Assessment 

Step 2: Cataloging and Photography

Step 3: Online Auction

Step 4: Payment Pickup

Easy Process

MaxSold handles all the payments from winning bidders, and coordinates your pickup day. In a concise 5-10 hour window, MaxSold supervises as your winning bidders haul everything away.

“At every phase of the process, MaxSold personnel have made the auction easy and stress-free for us“
Mike Lemm

4 simple steps for a stress-free estate sale:

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