They take a percentage of everything
A traditional estate sale company typically keeps 25–45% of gross sales — a quarter to nearly half of what your family's belongings earn, before you see a dollar.
The estate sale, without the estate sale company
The estate sale app that keeps the family's money in the family.
Traditional estate sale companies do real work — but they take a quarter to nearly half of every sale for it. Skira does the same work from your phone: photograph the home, let AI price and describe every item, and list where the buyers already are. Same results. Flat cost.
Start free — 10 appraised listings every month, no card required.
The old way
How the estate sale model has worked for decades.
It was designed for a world without a camera in every pocket: one crew, one weekend, one big percentage. It still works — the question is what it costs your family.
Weeks of waiting on someone else's schedule
Walk-throughs, proposals, and a slot on the company's calendar. Estates sit untouched for a month or more while the commission clock is set.
Strangers sorting through the home
A crew walks the whole house, decides what your things are worth, and sets the numbers. The pricing happens behind the scenes, not with you.
Leftovers quietly disappear
Whatever doesn't sell by Sunday afternoon is often hauled away in bulk — including pieces that could have sold for real money online.
The Skira way
Skira Pro: the same results, run from the kitchen table.
Everything the crew did — appraisal, pricing, listing, in-person logistics — happens from photos and a screen. You stay in charge of the home and the numbers.
Walk the home once with your camera
Skira's bulk photo sweep turns each room into priced, organized inventory — hundreds of items appraised in a single pass, at your pace, not a company's.
Every item priced, titled, and described
The AI drafts a story-style listing for each piece, estimates its resale value, and routes it to the right place: eBay for shippables, local pickup for furniture, donation for the rest.
Lot numbers, price tags, and QR codes
Skira Pro numbers the sale automatically and prints price tags, so the in-person weekend runs like a professional operation — without hiring one.
Listed where the buyers already are
eBay drafts, a Facebook catalog feed for your shop, and an EstateSales.NET–ready feed with dates, the full inventory gallery, and your terms.
Side by side
Traditional estate sale company vs. Skira Pro.
Traditional company
Skira Pro
What you pay
25–45% of gross sales
A flat Pro subscription
Time to first listing
Weeks of scheduling
Minutes from first photo
Who sets the prices
The company's crew
AI draft, your final say
Online reach
The sale weekend, local foot traffic
eBay + Facebook + EstateSales.NET feeds
What sells online after the weekend
Usually hauled away
Listed until it finds a buyer
Who controls the home
A crew works the house
You run the sale, family stays in charge
What that's worth on a real estate
On a $20,000 sale, a company charging a 25–45% commission keeps $5,000–$9,000. Skira Pro runs on a flat subscription — the family keeps the sale proceeds and pays the same price whether the estate earns $5,000 or $50,000. The more valuable the home, the bigger the savings.
Commission figures reflect the commonly quoted range for full-service estate sale companies and vary by company, region, and estate size.
Estate sale app questions, answered.
- What is an estate sale app?
- An app that replaces the manual work of running an estate sale — pricing hundreds of household items, writing listings, and getting them in front of buyers. Skira does it from photos: you walk the home with your camera, the AI identifies and prices each item, and everything lands in one organized inventory ready to list online or sell in person.
- Can an app really replace an estate sale company?
- For most homes, yes. What you're paying the company for is labor and knowledge: deciding what things are worth, writing listings, and reaching buyers. Skira automates the appraisal and the listing work, and pushes items to eBay, Facebook Marketplace, and estate-sale listing feeds. You review everything before it goes live, and you keep the commission.
- How much does an estate sale company take as a commission?
- It varies, but 25–45% of gross sales is the common range, with the higher end on larger or higher-value estates. On a $20,000 sale, that's $5,000–$9,000 that never reaches the family. Skira Pro is a flat subscription, so the more the home is worth, the more you save.
- Is Skira only for estate sale professionals?
- No. The free version is built for anyone clearing a home — a downsizing move, a parent's house, a garage. Skira Pro adds the whole-home scale tools: bulk photo sweeps, automatic lot numbering with printable tags, and marketplace and estate-sale feeds. Families preparing one large estate use Pro too.
- What happens to items that don't sell?
- Skira takes a second look at leftovers and separates what a charity will realistically accept from what has to go as bulk trash — then drafts either a donation pickup request or a haul-away quote request, sized in square and cubic feet. Nothing quietly disappears.
Run the sale yourself. Keep what it earns.
Photograph the first room today — free — and see what Skira would price it at before you commit to anything.