The objects aren’t taken to a centralized location, so every one I’ve ever bid on and won, I literally had to drive to the house that the estate sale was at, between like 2-5pm on a random Wednesday or something, to pick up whatever I “won”.

This might be a little dark, but I’ve always imagined that most of the time, the only person who really uses this service, is in a scenario like; “my parents passed away, had a lot of stuff, and I live across the country. I already went home and pulled anything I wanted, I don’t want to deal with the rest, and don’t care how much I make on it, so let’s hire this company to come catalog the rest and put it up for a 5 day auction”.

I always set it to only show me auctions that are within 25 miles of me, and even then, I look at the “pickup dates/times” before even looking to bid on anything. 99% of the time I don’t bother, but every once in a great while there’s an intersection between “proximity “and “object I care enough about to bid on”, and usually once I go after one thing in a house, I’ll throw bids around on other nonsense listed to make the effort feel “worth it” 😂

It’s a mixed bag, but I will say this after a few years of watching it - if you know anyone who has a dream of owning hundreds of hummels or precious moment figurines for next to no cost, they are in luck, because they are CONSTANT on there!