This particular sale featured "famous maker bags and boxes. Tiffany, Gucci, Hermes, L.V.", the ad said. I assumes that I was going to see many beautiful handbags from these luxury designers. What I saw was the PAPER shopping bags being sold. Truthfully, this particular estate company did show the famous-maker shopping bags in the photos advertising the sale, I just thought there were prodcuts in those bags. Silly me.
I just couldn't believe that this estate company actually advised the client to sell the shopping bags. In fact, I asked the estate sale person in charge about selling the bags and she said people buy them if they actally have one of the real bags or even for window dressing for stores. She said the bags go for a lot more on the Internet and if you go into a store, "they sure don't give them away".
I know it's the estate company's responsibility to make the client as much money as possible, but selling paper shopping bags just didn't sit well with me.
Neither did it go over well with the store managers of these companies which I interviewed. I spoke to representatives from Louis Vuitton and Tiffany and they were very disturbed that profit may have been made on items that really should not be sold. Clients are given those shopping bags when they purchase a store item. It's that simple. Estate companies should not be selling Louis Vuitton paper shopping bags for $12.00.
Just so I didn't think I was overreacting, I asked another estate sales company owner her opinion. I actually had to explain myself a few times because she couldn't fathom selling the paper shopping bags. She said all paper shopping bags, regardless of who they are made by, are given to shoppers when they make a purchase at the sale. She added that if there are luxury brand shopping bags, these are the ones people choose first. However, they are given them to take their purchase home in.
That is how it should be.
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