Central Valley Estates & Auctions

We hired this company to handle my uncle's estate. I have to say I was very impressed with the way the process went. They came in rearranged everything on tables and the place looked amazing.. especially considering my uncle was a hoarder and the was in much disarray when we hired central valley estates. Anyways they held an estate sale which lasted 2 days Friday/ Saturday. Almost everything sold. The items that did not sell they donated on our behalf. The best part is the house was completely empty at the end. Made it very easy for us to list the house for sell after.

I hired central valley estates to liquidate my father's ranch house in the mountains. My dad had some collectible cars and lots of turquoise jewelry. I couldn't be more pleased with the outcome of the sale. The day of the auction it was snowing. However over 100 people showed up and we got top dollar for the cars. I've recommend this company several times to my friends. They are the best!

The Pitts for Auctioneers. Estate so large was split into 3 auctions. Didn't provide proper staff equipment no professional movers no list unmarked running for keys jump starting items multiple not running had 2 months to test and fix 15 items not running 13 out of 15 made running by customer after purchase. Didn't clean up as per contract and am still waiting. Has a 70 year old man as a loader (one of his professionals) after showing up 3 hrs late to load. Faiked to provide contracted shuttles parking list movers clean up pennies for things DoNotUse Do not use DO NOT USE

After our mom died we had no idea what to do with all of the stuff left behind. It was completely overwhelming. My real estate agent suggested Chris at Central Valley Estates. We are so happy with the work they did for us. The house was full to the brim with collectables, furniture, clothes, tools...the kind of stuff you see people accumulate after living in the same house for almost 50 years. Chris and his crew completely cleared the house out. They were very respectful of the property and did a masterful job organizing and selling almost everything. They are extremely easy to work with and have an incredible amount of integrity. We couldn't believe how easy they made this process for us. We are forever grateful to Central Valley for everything they did for us!

very disappointed as held auction in pouring rain and no comparable business buyers in attendance and all leftovers and left behinds his stepfather took ownership and his mother pushing bidders away from items being sold

Scheduled an estate sale with my clients and never showed up or even called.The day after Thanksgiving.

This place treats people absolutely disgusting. As I was walking into an estate sale a woman (who worked there) was yelling and screaming at a man leaving the estate sale. She than started arguing with presumably her son (who told her to "calm down mom"). I walked in to the sale (with my 4 year old daughter) I started looking at a planter and a customer told me it was still for sale and hadn't sold. I than asked the woman if the planter was for sell. She said something quickly and I told her I didn't understand and she than yelled "what do you not speak English!?!!!l" screaming it at me in front of my 4 year old child. Yelling at me as I walked away. This woman is insane and has major anger issues! I'm guessing she is the owner or manager, idk. I will never go to, hire or recommend this estate company to anyone. I'm absolutely shocked by the lack of humanity this woman had towards a complete stranger asking a question.As I was walking away this woman told me her name is Michelle Sneed and "I could take a picture of her". No thanks.Update: I told my husband about the situation and he went by to talk to this woman. He could hear her in the background yelling at someone else when he pulled up. He told the other people working what happened and Chris (another owner) said "I know what he's talking about" and walked off. The next thing you know she's being driven away by someone. So he did not get to speak to her. There was another auction company there with them who profusely apologized even though they should not have had to. Michelle Sneed is CVE liability and theirs alone. They should have escorted her off before she screamed and yelled at me in front of my 4 year old. In my opinion they did not make anything better, they knew she was verbally abusing people and never told her to go home and calm down until my husband confronted them.

The integrity of a business is crucial for success. It has been my experience with dealing with this company that they are not trustable. An item posted for auction should be at the auction. We drove approximately 100 miles round trip to this auction just to discover the item had been pulled and replaced with another completely different model. Reason given was that the owner pulled the item. Once the original item was posted, that should have been the deciding point. Driving 100 miles to discover the switch is bad business and displays a lack of business integrity. The owner of the auction company is responsible to ensure all auction items are legit when they are posted. Also, being this is January 2, 2021, I waited in my car as my partner explored the auction. I noted that many people were crammed in a small barn/work shed where the auction was held. This company did not take into consideration the safety and health recommendations of the CDC. The auction should have been conducted outside or they should have limited the amount of people admitted. In other parts of the world this would have been cause for a rather huge fine. ( See Canadian Restrictions) . To sum up my experience today, I will never attend another event held by this company. Their INTEGRITY SUCKS.

Beware. We hired CVEA to handle my mother's estate sale. They were supposed to arrive early in the week to organize and price items. They did not. They were supposed to hold sale for two full days. They only held sale for part of one day. They priced small items way too high. They sold the easy, most in demand items within a few hours and then packed up and left. We could have done that ourselves. They left us with a house full of items that could have and should have been sold at reasonable prices. The sale should have netted at least $1000-2000 more than it did. We were very disappointed in CVEA. I would not recommend them to anyone. We feel ripped off.

Couple of the rudest people I've ever dealt with in my life. When I questioned Carlene on a price for a used item they had marked as double the amount charged at any craft store, she snatched it out of my hands, told me to go to Walmart and then turned around nearly pushing down another elderly lady who was trying to ask her a question. Will not spend another dollar with that company.