QVC and Estate Sale

FastDogWalker2 · ‎03-10-2010

Was visiting family in Western NY and in the morning newspaper there was an article about an estate sale being conducted in a nearby town. The man running the sale had cleaned out the home of an elderly woman and among the contents of the home was $700,000 worth of brand new, never used, still packaged QVC goods! Sounded like a lot of D and B purses among other things. Wow!

SahmIam · ‎04-16-2010

I think this is FAR more common than anyone realizes. : (

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

Stories like this make me so sad on so many different levels.

As for the $$ aspect: good luck to the estate sale auctioneers.

They’ll be lucky to get anything from that stuff.

Newgate · ‎09-05-2014

$700,000! Wow! I wonder why they were never opened.

They must have been stacked very, very high!

CrazyDaisy · ‎03-20-2010

Would think the contents of the entire house is worth $700,000. not just the QVC products.

Someday, when scientists discover the center of the Universe....some people will be disappointed it is not them.

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

Well, $700K makes me raise my eyebrows. However, I have known of two elderly women who passed away and when their families cleaned out their houses, they were shocked. Rooms full of never opened QVC and HSN boxes. One woman who was a co-worker said she always wondered why her mother never let anyone go upstairs in her house. And then she did and every room was bursting with the stuff. So, yes. There are a lot of elderly women who are lonely and no have no social outlets and they have credit cards and money is not a problem. They watch shopping channels....and buy stuff. Honestly, I go back and forth on how I feel about this but I think that people, even eldery people have every right to do whatever they want with the money. In the cases, I know of the women had no financial problems. So, some people travel. Some people donate large amounts of money to various charities (my dad was like that). Other people shop. If that's what gives them joy, I have no problems with that. I can say that it is a bummer for family members who have dispose of years and years of "stuff" because it's brand new so it's it's not a matter of "throw it in the dumpster".

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

@chrystaltree wrote:
Well, $700K makes me raise my eyebrows. However, I have known of two elderly women who passed away and when their families cleaned out their houses, they were shocked. Rooms full of never opened QVC and HSN boxes. One woman who was a co-worker said she always wondered why her mother never let anyone go upstairs in her house. And then she did and every room was bursting with the stuff. So, yes. There are a lot of elderly women who are lonely and no have no social outlets and they have credit cards and money is not a problem. They watch shopping channels....and buy stuff. Honestly, I go back and forth on how I feel about this but I think that people, even eldery people have every right to do whatever they want with the money. In the cases, I know of the women had no financial problems. So, some people travel. Some people donate large amounts of money to various charities (my dad was like that). Other people shop. If that's what gives them joy, I have no problems with that. I can say that it is a bummer for family members who have dispose of years and years of "stuff" because it's brand new so it's it's not a matter of "throw it in the dumpster".

I know someone like that, cannot say no to any animal charity that comes along. That's okay but it has gotten to the point where she is now struggling to take care of herself - bills, food, necessary repairs for her condo and car.

MomCat · ‎09-12-2010

@sidsmom wrote:
Stories like this make me so sad on so many different levels.

As for the $$ aspect: good luck to the estate sale auctioneers.
They’ll be lucky to get anything from that stuff.

I feel sadness as well. There are no words for this kind of mental illness.