My wife likes to shop, go figure, she is a woman! She goes to a lot of estate sales, garage sales and pretty much any store with a cash register. She showed me this estate sale, which was being held in Katy and had a lot of old coins. I collect coins so we decided to stop on our way from Crosby to San Antonio.
We got there and there was a large collection of coins and they were at the point where the prices were being discounted. I was interested in one book of coins that was $600 and they had announced that everything was 50% off, except for the silver coins. So, I tried to buy it for $300 since these coins were not silver, then one of the workers told me that it may not be discounted because it had a small "nd" written on it. Well, they could not get ahold of the guy who could make the decision, so they kept us waiting for about 45 minutes to an hour. When they finally did get a response via text, the guy said he would only go down to $500. I did not buy it. However, I did agree to buy a refrigerator and we agreed to pick it up on Tuesday 11/10/20.
My wife had set an item aside that she was thinking about buying and I now got in line to pay for the coins that I purchased and for the refrigerator. My wife asked me if I liked the item, I didn't care for it and this is when I got the first taste of how nasty this woman was. She basically raised her voice as if talking to a child "It's yours, you left it there for over 45 minutes." Which, of course, if they had gotten us a prompt answer on the coins, we would have paid for the items a long time ago. I didn't raise a fuss, thinking my wife wanted the item anyway but the way the woman raised her voice to my wife was rude. I didn't pay much attention to it; I was just thinking this woman is a little off. I found out later that she was the same woman who was yelling at another customer, a man.
Today, my wife went to another estate sale and it was run by the same woman. My wife asked about some item and that's when this lady literally starts yelling at my wife like she was a child in front of everyone. All the people throughout the house and outside heard her. My wife is a classy lady and has respect and morals and this big fat beast of a woman just continued to berate my wife. She was yelling at her saying that the guy, Fred, who I sent out there to pick up the refrigerator didn't have the proper tools and that she had to pay someone $200 to lend Fred tools to dissemble the refrigerator to get it out of the kitchen. She then told my wife to give her $200 right now! My wife was TERRIBLY upset. She just turned and left.
I wasn't there or I would have told this Jabba the Hut piece of crap to go to hell.
I would not recommend that anyone do business with this company until this woman has an exorcism. My wife is a very good woman and doesn’t deserve to be treated this way. She has been depressed all day because of this vile woman.
After reading all the negative reviews on many sites, I’m surprised this woman is allowed to conduct business.
I have shopped many of Jennifer's sales in the past and have always been pleased. However, that all ended today.
We had selected a chair, some knick knacky things, and had taken a painting off the wall. As we were standing in line, another painting caught my eye so my husband and I went over to look at it. Still carrying the first painting of Old Ironsides. We decided to get the other painting instead, took it off the wall, and put Old Ironsides back where the other painting had been.
Jennifer (the cashier that people are talking about) first said something about us rearranging the paintings and then proceeded to say we had purchased the other painting because we had put it on the "sold" table. Old Ironsides had never left my husband's hands so we told her that that was not true. She then called my husband a liar and proceeded to throw us out of the sale.
I offered to purchase both paintings and she still insisted that we leave. The HPD rent a cop threatened to call the police and have me arrested for trespassing. He asked me to step out and I said I would step out to speak with him. When I did, he shut the door in my face.
We came home, roused my 18 year old son out of bed (the chair was for his dorm room), and drove back to the sale so he could go in without me and buy the chair. When he came down to pay for it, she would not sell it to him and told him that she was smarter than his whole family put together.
He apologized and headed toward the door when she called after him to say that "By the way, your father is a liar". My son proceeded to return to her table, tell her she knew nothing about his father, and pushed her table over.
She is psychotic. I was at the same sale for three hours yesterday and had a wonderful conversation with her.
I attended one of Margie Beegle Sales on Sunday, 5/19/2019. There were items in all the rooms for sale including outside and the garage but more than half had no price tags. I found an unopened DVD, a small vase and four Delft porcelain items that I wanted to purchase. About 1pm they made the announcement it was an additional 30% off and I went to the checkout table.
The person commanding the checkout was arguing with a customer that she had items on the "Sold" table and would not receive an additional discount. There was one "Hold" table next to the checkout table and four "Sold" tables in an L shape next to the Hold table. The gentleman in front of me purchased a pullover shirt with no price for $25 and it was my turn to checkout.
I questioned how much the DVD was and she quoted $10. I asked if that was before the 30% off and she stated they retail for $30 and I'm not going to sell you the other items. I asked why and she stated and now I'm not going to sell you the DVD. I again asked why and she told me to leave so I asked for her business card and she pointed across the room.
The auction company hires an off-duty police officer stationed at the front door and not finding a business card on the far wall I asked him for one. He told me they are around the corner and the only one I saw was on a wood hutch which I started to read and the checkout woman screamed "security- I want him out." The officer got off his chair and approached me. I told him I only wanted a business card and he showed me a wall hanging that had the cards in a fan motif.
In 45 years in the business of sales I have never been treated with less respect and I feel sorry for the "mostly senior" customers that hire this company to dispose of their possessions in such an unprofessional manner. I have attended 100's of on line and live estate sales over the years and this is by far the worst of them all. There is no reason for the lack of preparation and hostile attitude
Margie Beegle apparently runs estate sales. Her goal is to maximize profit for the seller, which is fine if you're the estate ow,ner. If you are a buyer however, please be prepared for a deeply unpleasant experience capped off by a rip off. I knew nothing about this company when I saw a sign for an estate sale (now I see the dozens of 1 star yelp reviews) and walked in. After navigating through arbitraty rules/restrictaions posted on scraps of paper on doors/windows (no children, no bags over larger than a sheet of paper, no visa (but also no amex or checks -- is it so hard to simply say "only cash or discover/mastercard" in ONE place?), no lugging your stuff around but if you put it in the "holding" area, that means you yoiu BOUGHT IT but they don't tell you that until you come back to pay.
And to cap it off, everything was supposed to be 30% off. After waiting in line to pay, then finding out they don't take visa, then coming back with amex to find out they don't take that either, then asking to only purchase the items I'd left cash for to be told NO that I had to pay the full amount of the things they were holding for me (because the "holding" table is the "sold" table only you're not told that) or lose the cash I'd put down/be escorted off the property...after all that, I rush back with cash, get my things home...and see that the receipts are a mess of numbers, none of which add up to 30% off the ticketed price of the items I purchased. I was overcharged.
When I called the phone listed on the Margie Beele website, the woman who answered told me "there's nothing we can do after you leave, dear" and hung up. Nothing else, just hung up.
I also now see why the jewellery was placed in a seperate table under low lighting -- I see the scratches, lost stones, chips and nicks that I didn't see in the store.
The way this estate sale business is run is to rip off buyers. From the entrance to the property to the minute you leave -- it's set up up to scam you, however finely they might toe the legal line.
Margie Beegle Estate Sales, Inc. Reviews
My wife likes to shop, go figure, she is a woman! She goes to a lot of estate sales, garage sales and pretty much any store with a cash register. She showed me this estate sale, which was being held in Katy and had a lot of old coins. I collect coins so we decided to stop on our way from Crosby to San Antonio.
We got there and there was a large collection of coins and they were at the point where the prices were being discounted. I was interested in one book of coins that was $600 and they had announced that everything was 50% off, except for the silver coins. So, I tried to buy it for $300 since these coins were not silver, then one of the workers told me that it may not be discounted because it had a small "nd" written on it. Well, they could not get ahold of the guy who could make the decision, so they kept us waiting for about 45 minutes to an hour. When they finally did get a response via text, the guy said he would only go down to $500. I did not buy it. However, I did agree to buy a refrigerator and we agreed to pick it up on Tuesday 11/10/20.
My wife had set an item aside that she was thinking about buying and I now got in line to pay for the coins that I purchased and for the refrigerator. My wife asked me if I liked the item, I didn't care for it and this is when I got the first taste of how nasty this woman was. She basically raised her voice as if talking to a child "It's yours, you left it there for over 45 minutes." Which, of course, if they had gotten us a prompt answer on the coins, we would have paid for the items a long time ago. I didn't raise a fuss, thinking my wife wanted the item anyway but the way the woman raised her voice to my wife was rude. I didn't pay much attention to it; I was just thinking this woman is a little off. I found out later that she was the same woman who was yelling at another customer, a man.
Today, my wife went to another estate sale and it was run by the same woman. My wife asked about some item and that's when this lady literally starts yelling at my wife like she was a child in front of everyone. All the people throughout the house and outside heard her. My wife is a classy lady and has respect and morals and this big fat beast of a woman just continued to berate my wife. She was yelling at her saying that the guy, Fred, who I sent out there to pick up the refrigerator didn't have the proper tools and that she had to pay someone $200 to lend Fred tools to dissemble the refrigerator to get it out of the kitchen. She then told my wife to give her $200 right now! My wife was TERRIBLY upset. She just turned and left.
I wasn't there or I would have told this Jabba the Hut piece of crap to go to hell.
I would not recommend that anyone do business with this company until this woman has an exorcism. My wife is a very good woman and doesn’t deserve to be treated this way. She has been depressed all day because of this vile woman.
After reading all the negative reviews on many sites, I’m surprised this woman is allowed to conduct business.
I have shopped many of Jennifer's sales in the past and have always been pleased. However, that all ended today.
We had selected a chair, some knick knacky things, and had taken a painting off the wall. As we were standing in line, another painting caught my eye so my husband and I went over to look at it. Still carrying the first painting of Old Ironsides. We decided to get the other painting instead, took it off the wall, and put Old Ironsides back where the other painting had been.
Jennifer (the cashier that people are talking about) first said something about us rearranging the paintings and then proceeded to say we had purchased the other painting because we had put it on the "sold" table. Old Ironsides had never left my husband's hands so we told her that that was not true. She then called my husband a liar and proceeded to throw us out of the sale.
I offered to purchase both paintings and she still insisted that we leave. The HPD rent a cop threatened to call the police and have me arrested for trespassing. He asked me to step out and I said I would step out to speak with him. When I did, he shut the door in my face.
We came home, roused my 18 year old son out of bed (the chair was for his dorm room), and drove back to the sale so he could go in without me and buy the chair. When he came down to pay for it, she would not sell it to him and told him that she was smarter than his whole family put together.
He apologized and headed toward the door when she called after him to say that "By the way, your father is a liar". My son proceeded to return to her table, tell her she knew nothing about his father, and pushed her table over.
She is psychotic. I was at the same sale for three hours yesterday and had a wonderful conversation with her.
I attended one of Margie Beegle Sales on Sunday, 5/19/2019. There were items in all the rooms for sale including outside and the garage but more than half had no price tags. I found an unopened DVD, a small vase and four Delft porcelain items that I wanted to purchase. About 1pm they made the announcement it was an additional 30% off and I went to the checkout table.
The person commanding the checkout was arguing with a customer that she had items on the "Sold" table and would not receive an additional discount. There was one "Hold" table next to the checkout table and four "Sold" tables in an L shape next to the Hold table. The gentleman in front of me purchased a pullover shirt with no price for $25 and it was my turn to checkout.
I questioned how much the DVD was and she quoted $10. I asked if that was before the 30% off and she stated they retail for $30 and I'm not going to sell you the other items. I asked why and she stated and now I'm not going to sell you the DVD. I again asked why and she told me to leave so I asked for her business card and she pointed across the room.
The auction company hires an off-duty police officer stationed at the front door and not finding a business card on the far wall I asked him for one. He told me they are around the corner and the only one I saw was on a wood hutch which I started to read and the checkout woman screamed "security- I want him out." The officer got off his chair and approached me. I told him I only wanted a business card and he showed me a wall hanging that had the cards in a fan motif.
In 45 years in the business of sales I have never been treated with less respect and I feel sorry for the "mostly senior" customers that hire this company to dispose of their possessions in such an unprofessional manner. I have attended 100's of on line and live estate sales over the years and this is by far the worst of them all. There is no reason for the lack of preparation and hostile attitude
Margie Beegle apparently runs estate sales. Her goal is to maximize profit for the seller, which is fine if you're the estate ow,ner. If you are a buyer however, please be prepared for a deeply unpleasant experience capped off by a rip off. I knew nothing about this company when I saw a sign for an estate sale (now I see the dozens of 1 star yelp reviews) and walked in. After navigating through arbitraty rules/restrictaions posted on scraps of paper on doors/windows (no children, no bags over larger than a sheet of paper, no visa (but also no amex or checks -- is it so hard to simply say "only cash or discover/mastercard" in ONE place?), no lugging your stuff around but if you put it in the "holding" area, that means you yoiu BOUGHT IT but they don't tell you that until you come back to pay.
And to cap it off, everything was supposed to be 30% off. After waiting in line to pay, then finding out they don't take visa, then coming back with amex to find out they don't take that either, then asking to only purchase the items I'd left cash for to be told NO that I had to pay the full amount of the things they were holding for me (because the "holding" table is the "sold" table only you're not told that) or lose the cash I'd put down/be escorted off the property...after all that, I rush back with cash, get my things home...and see that the receipts are a mess of numbers, none of which add up to 30% off the ticketed price of the items I purchased. I was overcharged.
When I called the phone listed on the Margie Beele website, the woman who answered told me "there's nothing we can do after you leave, dear" and hung up. Nothing else, just hung up.
I also now see why the jewellery was placed in a seperate table under low lighting -- I see the scratches, lost stones, chips and nicks that I didn't see in the store.
The way this estate sale business is run is to rip off buyers. From the entrance to the property to the minute you leave -- it's set up up to scam you, however finely they might toe the legal line.