Chestnut Hill Estate Sales
Chestnut Hill Estate Sales Overview
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Chestnut Hill Estate Sales has a 2.3 star rating from 9 reviews with mostly dissatisfied consumers; Chestnut Hill Estate Sales reviews show a mix of praise and many complaints.
Positive Feedback
Shoppers report affordable finds, unique items, helpful moving/delivery service on some sales, and several owners say the team worked hard and sold most inventory.
Negative Feedback / Risk Areas
- Frequent Chestnut Hill Estate Sales customer complaints about not receiving payments or clear accounting and billing delays.
- Reports of fake designer bags and jewelry offered at sales.
- High prices, rude staff, pre-selling items, and inconsistent customer service and delivery practices.
Key Takeaways for Future Customers
- Get a photographed itemized inventory and contract before hiring or consigning.
- Expect possible delays on payouts and insist on written accounting for refunds/payments.
- Attend sales for bargains but avoid designer jewelry unless verified authentic.
The generated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Chestnut Hill Estate Sales has a 2.3 star rating from 9 reviews with mostly dissatisfied consumers; Chestnut Hill Estate Sales reviews show a mix of praise and many complaints.
Positive Feedback
Shoppers report affordable finds, unique items, helpful moving/delivery service on some sales, and several owners say the team worked hard and sold most inventory.
Negative Feedback / Risk Areas
- Frequent Chestnut Hill Estate Sales customer complaints about not receiving payments or clear accounting and billing delays.
- Reports of fake designer bags and jewelry offered at sales.
- High prices, rude staff, pre-selling items, and inconsistent customer service and delivery practices.
Key Takeaways for Future Customers
- Get a photographed itemized inventory and contract before hiring or consigning.
- Expect possible delays on payouts and insist on written accounting for refunds/payments.
- Attend sales for bargains but avoid designer jewelry unless verified authentic.
Media from reviews
Tolland, Connecticut
If there was a minus star choice- that would be my rating. Do not hire this company. We unfortunately hired them and things were broken, missing, very poor itemization. Run don’t walk away from them
Owners first estimate of sales was way over what he ended up giving us. His itemization list was sub par with several expensive items missing.
A Royal Vienna two piece vase worth over $1,000 was not listed and when I asked him why it wasnt on the itemized list he said-oh that it didnt go for much.
He didnt list our oriental rug either and when asked- he said it was an oversight and gave us $350.00. He is a con man.
User's recommendation: Run!
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Newton, Massachusetts
Vendor is a criminal, dishonest and doesn’t deliver on commitments
Same details exactly as previous review from Dec. 2024, except NEVER RECEIVED A PENNY!!!
Also, never provided an accounting of what was sold so some items not authorized might have been sold.
Dec. 2024:
In a nutshell, Chestnut Hill conducted a three-day sale for me and was supposed to send me 75% of the proceeds within 30 days along with an accounting of the sale. When nothing arrived in 30 days, I followed up and was told it would be arriving any day. This repeated itself for weeks, and then I received a check from a company called Rainmaker Estate Sales (which I had never heard of) for less than I expected, with absolutely no accounting as to how that amount was determined.
Since then, Alan Davidson has not responded to any of my multiple messages. In reading other reviews (which I wish I had read before hiring them), it appears this is a pattern - delay any payment, then send a disappointing amount without any accounting.
This needs to stop! User's recommendation: Stay Away
Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered
User's recommendation: This guy is a thief. Stay away!!! Far away!!!!
This owners son is a thief pulled everything from the sale and disappointed all the customers .
New York, New York
Service was Excellent
I bought a Beautiful couch and side tables, and the men delivered it right to my house, a moving service they offered. I also had gotten a big TV , everything was Excellent,.I was looking for a review site and found this one.
User's recommendation: Remarkable service
The nonsense is you writing fake reviews ,
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Verified ReviewerBringing in outside fake bags to sell
I've been to a couple of sales now where they've brought in fake designer bags from DHGate, new in packaging, and listed them for suspiciously low prices. The quality is very poor and they are obviously fake. It seems they have a history of this behavior and are engaging in fake comments here telling people the bags are real, using profanity, etc.
- Fake jewelry
- Fake designer goods
- Rude staff
User's recommendation: Avoid designer goods or jewelry
They only sold real bags at the sale with the original receipts . You must be mixing them up with another person who does estate sales.
Her name is Andrea and she owns a second hand shop on Pearl st in Newton Center.
The FBI raided her store and closed it down because she had stolen jewelry and fake purses in there. Stay away from her store , most are the items are fake in there.
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Verified ReviewerI Was Scammed
In a nutshell, Chestnut Hill conducted a three-day sale for me and was supposed to send me 75% of the proceeds within 30 days along with an accounting of the sale. When nothing arrived in 30 days, I followed up and was told it would be arriving any day.
This repeated itself for weeks, and then I received a check from a company called Rainmaker Estate Sales (which I had never heard of) for less than I expected, with absolutely no accounting as to how that amount was determined. Since then, Alan Davidson has not responded to any of my multiple messages.
In reading other reviews (which I wish I had read before hiring them), it appears this is a pattern - delay any payment, then send a disappointing amount without any accounting. This needs to stop!
- Performed the sale with a reasonable amount of traffic
- No accounting of the sale
Preferred solution: An accounting of my sale
User's recommendation: Stay Away
Your house was 80% empty Before the sale started and there are photos to prove it. The living room was totally empty as were most of the other rooms
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Verified ReviewerEstate sale fraud
I never do reviews unless something is really good or horrendously bad. This estate sale company is a ladder.
I hired them because I was overwhelmed with how much stuff I had and was too overwhelmed to organize and sale it all by myself. All this company did was let people look through my attic and basement at my stuff and they would decide a price as they go. I couldve done that myself! To be fair, they did sort through the big stuff and put price tags on them, which was the best and only thing they did worthwhile.
If you were hoping to get paid for your stuff, forget it. If you are lucky to get paid at all, you will get shortchanged. In order to even get paid after a month and a half of Alan, making excuses, I had to threaten a lawsuit and tell him I was going to report him to estatesales.net, which is the Google of estate sales. If it werent for the very real threat of being unable to list on that website, I would have never been paid I dont think Im still waiting for my itemized sale list that he has promised me a month ago.
After researching, Ive realize hes done this to other people. I know, moving and cleaning out a house can be overwhelming, however, youll come out better if you do the sale yourself than hiring this company.
User's recommendation: Do not recommend
This customer was too busy focusing on her own biz , which is the oldest profession around , they do a booming biz on the North Shore so if you are a guy looking for a woman for the evening this is your person. Her friend and her have many clients all over Swampscott and Lynnfield. Maybe they should take heed of what they do and not make up lies about estate sale companies.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Great sale in Newton
Great sale in Newton , A lot, of jewelry, china, great items, tons of gold, got some great buys, always alit if good stuff at there sales. Great deals on clothing and furniture tio
Bogus review. This forum is for pissed consumers.
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Verified ReviewerGot some Great Items Great price
Decorated my house. Saved a lot of money.
I have a lot of fun,at them.
Look online first for items you need ,then plan to go on the weekend ,and make a deal ,try to barter your best price,and hopefully you will come out happy as I do.with inflation estate sales make a lot
Of sense . You pay a fraction of retail.
User's recommendation: Great sales,if people are looking to decorate a new home.
BS! People don’t come here to pat you on the back.
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Verified ReviewerPISSED CONSUMER
Interesting that after scathing reviews there appears to be self-serving reviews. This forum is for pissed consumers.
Why arent there any reviews on Yelp? Interesting. Suspicious. Buyer beware!
Also you may want to cover your license plate lest they take a photo and post it! Yup, thats their standard operating procedure.
How are they still in business?! Hard to keep up with the name changes but it is still the same Motley Crue!
User's recommendation: Buyer Beware!
This is the same woman who told the nice college girl, that all the purses were fake even though they were real, so she can take them . Picking on a college student , nice Pam A who lives in a 1.8 million dollar house in Natick, let’s look up her address
Wakefield, Massachusetts
To let people know < I myself find ,this company runs A great Service
I feel that is not right for other customer to , give a poor rating when there is no Merit, every person has their own opinion, but it does not seem right one bad customer can attack a business,to misrepresent as such without much meaning, I have been to 100 of their sales ,when I find the total opposite, when I go to their sales. I just don't see how one bad apple, seems to be attacking this company, They have such high end sales, it's very Enjoyable to spend the day out and find great items, from such high-end homes.
User's recommendation: Go to the Sales and Have fun, they are a Blast
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Verified ReviewerI bought a tractor love it
I bought a tractor last year,to do my lawn it has saved my back,best purchase I have ever made. If not for estate sales,i would not be able to buy luxury items,at affordable prices.
It's not the only item I bought.
I purchased a snowblower and other tools for around the house. I love estate sales thank you.
- Affordable
- Sometimes far travel
Preferred solution: Nothing I am good
User's recommendation: It's a lot of fun
Total BS
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Verified ReviewerSELLING FAKE BAGS
Just went to their sale in Shirley and all of the designer bags are FAKE!! With prices as if theyre real.
This guy needs to be reported and put out of business.
No wonder he changed his company name!!! BEWARE!
User's recommendation: STAY AWAY!!
To the woman who tried to steal the bags from us by telling everyone they are fake, jokes on you Hermes real real real , just got confirmation from the young lady that bought it, she had it authenticated, amazing to me you can walk in a room and say 20 bags are fake in 5 minutes, guess you missed that class growing. As with any items of jewelry, autographs, and name brands we have 5 day return policy if any item is not real.
Newton, Massachusetts
Did great job with fathers house in Newton
I hired this company to run my father's estate sale, my father is 84 years old, they sold everything in the house for the most part. They got pretty good prices, would use them again. We had a lot of jewelry to sell they did a great job, would definitely recommend them again.
- Hard workers
- Lot of people in house
Preferred solution: Nothing
User's recommendation: Good company would use again
Looking for positive reviews on Yelp. Curious why there aren’t any.
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Just stopped by to say wonderful sale
I went to you're Sale today, and checked out the beautiful hand bags and home Items ..Great sale.it was a little hard to find the house. but i did get there, Thanks to the Signs that were at each intersection, just want to say, it was fun, and great job .
hope to go to more sales in the future..its amazing the items people collect over the years.
- Great unique finds
- Sometimes hard to find the homes
Preferred solution: nothing
User's recommendation: Excellent lot of fun
Complete BS
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Westford, Massachusetts
Sold clothing items for $10 a piece as "in good condition" when it was in fact stained..
After over a 90 minute wait to get into the sale, I found it so packed with items it was impossible to even see what was there. Going into a small room with mostly clothing in it, I was told by an employee that the clothing would be in good condition.
There was literally no room to move, so I could not view the items properly and took the employee at her word. Each item I bought was $10 a piece. When I got home I looked at the clothes I had purchased and 3 out of the 5 were stained. I contacted the company, sending 3 emails over time and they chose not to respond.
Interestingly, prior to the sale, I had contacted them about an item I was interested in purchasing and they got back to me right away. If they had been courteous enough to reply to my very non confrontational emails, perhaps I wouldn't have written this review.
In my opinion, the company has highly inflated prices and really terrible customer service. They will take your money and run.
User's recommendation: Do not waste your time.
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
Hired Them to do an estate sale they took the money and never paid me
Signed a contract with Alan Davidson, His people ran the estate sale took in over $1000.00 (most likely more than that) and never paid me or responded to my calls or emails. At one point he wrote back the check was in the mail.
Never saw it.
I wish I had done my research before hiring him. I've since seen many bad reviews that I suspect are accurate.
User's recommendation: Stay away from this Dishonest Company !!!!
Based on your review the owner must be a millionaire, not even close to that. Aren’t most con men rich, Doesn’t look like a rich guy to me.
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Maybe I’df the whole house didn’t smell like pot a better job could have been done. Between the mice and the filthy basement which pictures are already floating around the internet things might have been more organized. Looks like you need a hazmat suit to walk in that house after looking at the pictures.
The sale was run correctly,to me, looks like they went above and beyond. As they were not even charged for all the after market sales that were made by one of the woman who works for the company. Maybe they ought to focus on why their house smelled of drugs everywhere from the upstairs bedroom.
This man was paid in full the rug was added to the sale after tha fact and he was paid for that also. No such vase at auction 150 if you are lucky.
House was in appalling condition , mice everywhere and expected we were to clean up this mess . We have numerous pictures of home if anyone would like to see it.
The whole house smelled of pot so you can you all can realize where this review was coming from. We are not a maid service . Don’t know who was living in the boarded up room upstairs but they were smelling up the whole house.
Don’t know how people live like that . If anyone wants pictures we have them .
We spent over a week in that house setting up , and if you are gonna have people in the house don’t keep a person locked in a bedroom smoking pot all day. So many customers complained. These people ought to focus on their own problems instead of making things up.