Books in Covina

We use www.estatesales.net to find estate sales in our area.  It works for anywhere in the US.  We found an estate sale in Covina, about an hour from here, that advertised that there were about 5,000 books in the estate.  We thought that maybe we could buy the entire lot before the sale.
 
We emailed the estate sale company and asked them if they or the consignors were willing to sell all the books as a lot before the sale.  We eventually called them and set up a meeting for Tuesday at 9:00AM.  I looked at all the pictures that were posted online to try and count the books. I counted about 2500 in the pictures, and I am sure there are more books not in the pictures.  We especially liked the Astrology books that we saw and hope the rest were non-fiction of different categories as well! 

On Tuesday we drove to Covina at arrived around 9:00.  We immediately recognized the people running the sale, Robert & Sandy, as the same people that ran the sale in Hemet that has all the Shirley Temple stuff that Elly bought and did so well on eBay with.  We methodically started in one room and moved successfully through each room.  Our hopes were dashed as we came upon shelf after shelf of book club fiction.  Books you can buy an Amazon for a penny.  But nowhere to be seen were the astrology books we saw in the pictures!  I asked Robert where they were, and he pointed out that he moved them to the terrace room. Whew!

Well in took us only 1/2 hour to realize that we were not going to make an offer on the entire lot, but were still interested in the astrology books.  We made an offer to Robert for all the astrology books, and were told that he would ask the family as they have the final word.

On Wednesday, Robert call and said our offer was accepted and that he and Sandy would pack the books up for us and we could pick the up on Friday during the sale.

Today we went and got the books and a few other things that Elly bought.  Now we have to put them up on Amazon.  This was an easy way to get books, almost as good as the Homeopathic books we got at The San Diego Auction.