Ipk Enterprises Estate Sales

Do NOT waste your time going to Irene's sales. They are dirty, nasty, way overpriced and she is rude on top of it all!

RUN!! RUN really FAST AWAY from these sales. Can't say anything more than what other reviewers have mentioned. There's a REASON I don't go to these sales and haven't for a good 4+ years.

The woman who runs these estate sales is nasty and rude. I was recently at one of her sales (on a Saturday -- last day of the sale meaning half price). The problem is that most items do not have prices marked, leading one to believe she just makes up a price when you ask. She said the item I was interested in was $50, so it would be $25. Since it was the last day of the sale, and the house was still full of stuff, I thought she would take an offer of $20 in an attempt to clear some inventory. If she had politely declined the offer, I would have paid the $25. But she was very rude about it, raising her voice and acting crazy. I've been to several of her sales in the past, and have noticed they are always terribly unorganized and rarely have prices marked. And never willing to accept reasonable offers. I've wondered if she has written into her contracts with the families that she gets to keep anything that doesn't sell. I will never return to an IPK estate sale. Crazy, stupid lady.

No masks, rude, horribly organized. Most items not marked. I can see where previous reviews are coming from.

You go to their estate sales and you bring something up to the table just so they can tell you it's not for sale. Do a better job of separating your stuff before selling it. Stay away from their sales, period!!!

After receiving a call at my work from Irene saying that she works for "Community Internet Review", a Facebook post, her Google reply to my 1 star review saying " Real eyes Realize Real Lies" and reading other's with similar issues, I decided to go ahead and write a review. Approximately 6 months after my mother had passed we called several places to see about having an estate sale. After sitting down with her she was very eager to hurry up and have the sale, which should have been red flag #1. To not get to lengthy I will skip to day 1 of the sale.  My sister and I recieved 2 phone calls from friends of the family telling us that Irene was making comments to customers regarding my sister and I stealing from the estate and that she "felt bad for the mom because her daughter's were so mean and hateful" along many other comments. To top it off, my 86 year old grandmother was in the house and heard Irene says these things about us.  I then called Irene and told her she could come get her tables from the front yard because she was done. She got mad and told me that my grandmother and friends of my mother were all liers and she never talked bad about us. This should have been red flag #2. But I caved in and thought, let's just get this done and over. so I let her continue the sale.  Day 3 my sister stops by the house and she had a man loading up my mother's stuff in the back of her truck. Which we had never agreed to sell the item being loaded. And I am pretty sure she didn't pay us for. To top off this horrible experience,  the check she gave us for items sold/stolen bounced.  It took over 2 weeks to get her to call me back and get a new check from her. Moral of the story, I would not use her services. It is hard enough losing a loved one, you shouldn't have to deal with people taking advantage of your loss.

The give the service of the people running the show a low grade. Nothing was in good order or organized well enough. I had found several kitchen items that had not even been bothered to be paired up with the right accessories. Things were just all over the place with prices that you could just get off the factory floor if you would want to get it brand new and not used. When I went to check out with a few things I found to purchase, the woman taking money had crab rangoon all over her fingers and in the corner of her mouth just eating away like that was not gross at all, yuk! I had wondered if she was going to even wipe her hands off before handling my debit card. When showing that I was going to pay with my debit card I was prompted that the person forgot "the swiper thingy" & could not even accept my payment.No sale and I walked away fucking disappointed as hell.

I found the lady running the sale to be super nice and helpful and I got great deals on cool vintage items!

I wish I could give this business negative stars! Before I quit attending Irene King's estate sales years ago, these are some of the things I personally witnessed that finally made me vow to never go back:* Rude, unprofessional behavior. I heard Irene make many snide comments, often aimed at customers (against all common sense - why drive customers away?!) * Ridiculously high prices compared to how other local sales price similar items.* One of her apparent friends or family showed up and was almost $100 short on his tab. "Don't worry about it - get me next time" she told him, not realizing I could hear her. I strongly suspect that money was never given to the family hiring her that weekend. This feeling is reinforced by...* IPK estate sales I attended almost never used a formal accounting system. Only once was there a register at the check out table...the rest of the time tallies were done on scrap paper or mentally, and money was shoved in a cash box - or pockets as I witnessed first hand. I can only think of 3 reasons for this:1. Laziness/Stupidity2. To take more money than her agreement with the family allowed, which could also lead to...3. Cheating the IRSI would never advise doing business with any sale company that did any of these 3 things. Who knows if she's changed ways and is making herself accountable to clients these days, but even if so, based on other reasons, I would strongly suggest hiring a company with good feedback online.* Her poor reputation - I have heard several stories reinforcing my points above, so I know it wasn't just me catching her on a bad day now and then.

Snarky comments and overpriced items, are what you will find. I quit going to her sales many years ago, because of her snobby attitude. This summer I stopped at a sale, only to find out that it was an IPK sale, as I was walking in. Oh no-Not THIS woman, I thought to myself. I decided that since it's been over 20 years that I've went to her sales, maybe I was judging too harshly and to give it a chance. Pffft, I wasn't, seems she had gotten worse over the years. She stood at her table with a couple other ladies and talked about how cheap and poor the neighborhood was. Pointing out that if she was on the east side, stuff would sell, they have money. (I wanted to say - well then, take your crap to the east side, we won't miss you) She was rudely expressing that she hates having estate sales on the south side of town, because everyone is so poor. She was going on and on saying offensive things, quite loudly for anyone to hear. That's when I decided to leave. However before doing so, I did tell her and other ladies, "Who do you think you are? You ladies are disgusting, to be talking about people like that" and I walked out. I must of embarrassed at least one of the ladies. She immediately followed me out the door, I turned around and told her "you should be ashamed of yourself" She said, "yes you're right, we shouldn't have been saying those things " . I have never given a bad review on anyone. BUT - after seeing the other reviews and my experiences, Id give her a negative review too.If over 20 years later and she's still snarking along rudely as ever ... that's not a good thing!