Distributing "stuff" to heirs

[daylatedollarshort]

I understand that for many heirs / executors they would rather not have to deal with the time or memories of prolonged sales. But the reason I mention it is that I do go to estate sales and I always ask the estate sales people a lot of questions and what happens to the unsold items. At one sale the family was going to take over and sell the remaining items on eBay or CL. But what was left over was the picked over stuff. If they were going to do some selling on their their own anyway, I think they would have come out ahead selling the high value items like the 65" TV on their own and left the lower value stuff for the estate people to sell off. I think the family thought the estate people were the experts and would get top dollar for the most expensive items, when I don't think that was the case at all. The sales person told me she priced the art by looking up the artist's name on eBay.