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We are expanding our business to include Estate Sales and Liquidations. It is a business which helps us move one step further into vertical integration.
Several people involved with the Bettina Network have had much experience with antiques, estate sales and related matters, some for over 40 years, so this should be a great time for all.
The sales will be held all over the country depending upon who contacts us and whose estates we agree to liquidate. To find out what is happening in this regard Bettina’s Sales will be listed on the website under an “Estate Sale” category.
Much of what we sell will be via silent auction. There are some items – antique and otherwise – where you really don’t have a fair retail value so we will let the market decide.
You can shop either at the home where the sale is being held or you can shop via the internet. If you have the winning bid and are not in the same city we will mail your purchases to you.
Unlike many antique auctions, which take place at a definite time and place, the silent auction allows you time to look over the items being sold; to think about whether this is something you would really like to own; it gives you time to do a little research as to the items history and value; and then it gives you time to put in a bid. You can even reconsider and come back with a higher bid if your best friend slipped in a bid behind your back.
You will be able to register on the Bettina Network’s web site to receive notice of new sales as they open and you will be able to register to bid.
The items in each sale are unique to that sale. In other words, the Bettina Sales will not be a travelling antique shop. For each item you purchase you will receive as much information as we have about the item – its provenance, in other words – even if it is a shop tool from Home Depot. (Who knows what they will be worth to the next generation).
There will be a permanent ongoing sale as a part of the Bettina Network Sales web site which is for items we have been asked to sell outside of any particular estate or house sale. There are people who have only a few very lovely items they want to sell, we will be open to selling those items in a special place, not as a part of any person’s estate sale.
There are three categories of sales:
1. “A Scattering Sale” – A sale which offers the contents of the home of someone who has died and whose family wants their things “scattered” to those who will help bring closure to that person’s life and to those who may find some use for those “things” left behind. It is always interesting to see and sell the “things” with which we surround ourselves to make life more interesting and comfortable. A “Scattering Sale” is also a treasure trove of ideas on how to live with and use “things” and very unique decorating ideas. Come for the sale or come to look around for ideas. Where a person has left favorite recipes, sayings to live by, etc. we will share those with you.
A “Scattering Sale” generally includes those things purchased to use, rather than collected for investment purposes. It can also include items inherited from family over the years and gifts from friends. They almost always include wardrobes from many decades and books by the gross. It could include automobiles, houses, etc., the entire estate.
The other two categories go upscale with the third being rare and beautiful antiques, art, and very unusual items. Needless to say, the prices accelerate with the level of sale.
So many truly beautiful things happen at these sales we thought we would include a story or two from the sales on the Bettina’s Blog for you. If they get to be too many we will probably break this off and create a separate blog for the sale stories.
Payment at the sales is by cash, check or credit card and we accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover Card.
Hope to see you at one of the sales. If you want to come and help to be a part of the action, let us know and we will include you in a particular sales staff. We need sales people, display people, artists, photographers, clean-up crew and more.
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Want to join us? Have a home that you want to open to become one of Bettina Network’s Hedge Schools? Call us and lets talk – or email us.
Ed. Note: Members of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community can contribute to the Bettina Network Blog whenever they have anything they want to say and be heard by this fantastic group of people. Send your blog to bettinanetwork@comcast.net or mail it to us at P. O. Box 380585 Cambridge, MA. 02238 or call us on the telephone at 617-497-9166 to tell us what you want to say and we will write it for you.
Volunteer with Bettina Network Foundation, inc. to work estate sales; to help move items from one home to another; to contribute your ideas on how we can better use our resources in this effort to relieve and eliminate homelessness and poverty. We also need photographers; designers; and more. However much or little time you have, we are grateful.
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