ALL AMERICAN LIQUIDATION

I caution anyone from choosing All American Liquidation to hold your estate sale.  Our sale was to be held on March 7-9, 2014.  We turned the key over to Bobbee Finkel, owner of All American Liquidation, on Monday, March 3rd.  By the afternoon of March 6th nothing had been advertised, and no pictures of items posted on line.   Being concerned, my sister and I went to our deceased mother's house where the sale was to be held.  Ms. Finkel, the owner of All American Liquidation, was not there--only her one assistant.  We called Ms. Finkel and expressed our concern that nothing had been advertised or priced and that many of the more valuable antique items were missing from the house.  In fact very little set up had been done for the sale with the exception that several tables had been set up containing Ms. Finkel's own jewelry which she had brought in to sell. 

After about an hour Ms. Finkel arrived carrying large sheets of poster board--I assume to make estate sale signs. She said she was having trouble with her tech person.  She called him and, shortly afterwards, information about our sale appeared on her web site.  (She had told us she did major advertising on several sights.)  When questioned about the items missing from the house, she told us she had sold them to an "out of town dealer" for $1,000.  She refused to provide us with the name of this person or to provide any documentation of the sale, saying she deals only in cash and she refused to return the items. She said everything she had done was covered in her contract.  We later found out that Ms. Finkel also runs a booth at the Charleston Antique Mall on Decatur Blvd. and believe that the items missing from my mother's home we take to sell in her own antique booth.

At this time, feeling we could not trust her, we canceled the sale.  On the following Weds. we received a check for $52. 28.  She had charged us a 35% commission on the $1,000 she said she had received from the "out of town" dealer  instead of 30% per our contract with her, $115 for advertising, $24.97 for an opened box of large garbage bags which she left outside our garage door, and $500 for canceling the estate sale per her contract. 

Please be careful when you sign a contract with this company!  Her one page contract is designed to protect her, not you!

I went through all the belongings and asked if I needed to pull things out of cupboards etc....the answer was no they would go through everything.  I had to give Bobbie a set of keys in the middle of the week prior to the sale weekend.  She asked if she could add some additional things in order to make the sale more inviting...I said sure.  She also told me that I could not be there during the sale.  The sale was to go for approximately 2 days.  The first day of the sale it rained.  One of my neighbors came to the sale and said, "that the entire living room was filled with jewelry (I had no jewelry in the sale), and Bobbie was complaining that she had to travel so far and that her followers would not come from NLV to Solera in Henderson.  The majority of the belongings were split between the small rooms and the garage, where a sign was placed in the garage saying (garage sale)".  A day or so before the actual estate sale, she received a phone call from the city of Henderson stating that she needed a license to have an estate sale (Bobbie told me that a competitor turned her in).  She told me that she had to pay a certain amount to get her license for Henderson or she couldn't have the sale.  She said she had one for the county and for Las Vegas.  Evidently she placed Estate sale signs around the area.  The neighborhood did not like where she placed them, so they took them down and she had to buy new ones.  Bobbie called late Sunday to tell me that the sale went well and that they were all done and that the remaining items were donated. This is what I found:  The carpet was filthy in the bedroom where people sat/laid on the bed; scratches, marks and nicks on almost all the walls where items were being offered; there were 8,33 gallon bags filled to the brim thrown in the front yard and on the sidewalk with all sorts of varying trash including glass waiting for trash pickup;  Anthem recycles!  There was broken glass on the garage floor, down the driveway and on the walkway to the front door.  We received the paperwork within 3 days of the sale.  Bobbie said that we made around $1100.00 initially.  She deducted her 35% for the work, the amount for her Henderson license, and all the estate sale signs which left us with a check for around $500.00. All of these deductions unfortunately for me was in her initial contract that I signed.  Enclosed in her final paperwork was also a two page list of most of our belongings which ended up being donated.  She told me that she was going out of the country the next day for a couple of months so I wouldn't be able to contact her.  In early April 2013 she called me and asked... since I was so happy with the sale would I recommend her.  When she called I was taken by surprise, the house had been repaired, touched up and sold.  I didn't have my information readily available and felt that I would put it on Angie's List instead.  I was never able to talk to her about how the house was left and my disappointment in the actual estate sale in general.  I would not recommend Bobbie and her business!

Very personable to start, but once the sale was to take place it was difficult. I thought she did not have a good accounting of what was sold. She sold the entire contents at garage sale prices, which I could have done and made more money doing it myself. I would say the amount I received was neglible, and I could have done it alone. I acted as if she had a clientele that would buy antiques and art items for what they were worth, not as if it were a garage sale. I had lladro, 1920's art deco furniture, all sold way below what they were worth. I was very disappointed. I would never use or recommend her.