Overview: An estate liquidation model that dramatically reduces vendor preparation and valuation requirements in order to facilitate the waste diversion opportunities mapping to lower value estates and estate that have already had a conventional estate sale with significant remainders.
Participants: Real estate agents with estate projects pending. Families with elders aging into assisted living and/or beyond, those with significant material accumulation and very little attachment to the contents besides the desire to see contents avoid the landfill, and those unable to secure estate selling services through other vendors due to the glut of estates hitting the market.
Ideal clients have concluded any/all private claim to site contents and are ready for estate sale attendees to sift through and purchase any/all estate remainders on a flat pricing, stepped-down-over-days basis. Target audience for Flat Rate events include treasure hunters, resellers, thrifters, garage and estate salers, first apartment setter-uppers, college students, makers, crafters, artists, and dopamine junkies on even modest budgets. Customers easily sourced via EstateSales.net and signage to drive hyper-local foot traffic and spontaneous shoppers.
Customer Profiles:
Jim (54) & Jane (52), with full support of their spouses and their elderly parents (recently relocated to assisted living), are preparing to list their childhood home for sale. Mom & dad have taken what they want, the grandkids don't have room for anything more in their small apartments, and the high value items have been sold via auction.
What remains of their parents' estate is low by conventional resale standards, even as decades of accumulated 'life layer' remain: it would be a shame to pile it all into the trash. If someone can keep it in rotation and save them the trouble of having to deal with it all themselves, they'd be grateful for the help.
They like how quickly the Flat Rate Estate team can pull off an event, and they love the idea of having the Greener Gleaner folks come through afterward: the less content they have to process themselves, the better. Heck - they may even find renewed energy to deal with what's left after the community's redistribution network has done their thing!
Leila (22) and Hazel (21) are design students at the local art school. They were out for a bike ride when they saw sale signage and decided to swing by out of curiosity. They're incredulous to learn that everything in the entire house is just $5/item, and after making a quick pass, they decide on a tag team strategy: Hazel will guard their picks while Leila rides home to grab cash and borrow Levi's car for treasure-transport (because that desk is amazing... and just five dollars? Really?!).
They both sign up for the mailing list before leaving, and encourage Levi to join them the following day, when prices will be even lower.
System Description: Event-based estate selling model that leverages the budget-friendly 'find a treasure' value of flat rate pricing. Client agrees to a pricing path and schedule, and house contents are liquidated accordingly.
SDG Mapping: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.
This business model has been intentionally designed in keeping with the following Sustainable Development Goals:
SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
SDG 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Future Growth Opportunities: Event-based, targeted-site, high-foot-traffic sales to efficiently liquidate low-value product at high volumes. Referrals from other estate liquidators, direct referrals, resellers seeking to weed out old inventory, estate planning firms, churches, facilitated events, community orgs, etc. Utilize event traffic to build up an opt-in mailing list for future event notifications and market expansion.
This work represents the intellectual property of Julie Kearns for Junket: Tossed & Found (2010-2024). It may not be copied or shared without express permission. Inquiries may be directed to julie@shopjunket.com