Win the job before the other company calls back.
The text alert and line system that turns your buyer list into the reason families hire you.
In just 28 minutes during a real sale — 77 of them in the first 13 minutes
opted-in buyers collected in the first month, on a list the company owns outright
what the messaging cost that company for the whole week leading up to the sale. Not a typo
its builder has worked estate sales - including for one of the biggest companies in America, 70+ locations
for a buyer to text a city name and hold a numbered, name-verified spot in line
consent, quiet hours, and STOP requests enforced automatically, in code
The line is live right now — try it yourself
Reply with your name and you'll have a numbered spot in line in about twenty seconds — exactly what your shoppers get. This is a real production system answering, not a recording or a demo video.
Standard message rates apply. Reply STOP anytime — and watch how fast that works too.
Sample data. The real thing fills a sheet in your Google account, not ours.
The crowd isn't the problem. Winning the kitchen table is.
A family is choosing between you and two other companies to handle their mother's estate. Everyone claims they can pull a crowd. Right now, you prove it with a Facebook page and some photos. So does everyone else.
Say that at the kitchen table and watch the other bids stop mattering.
Three texts run everything
How estate sale text alerts work.
Buyers text a city name
They get asked for a name, then a numbered spot in line. No name, no number, so the list stays real. No app, no sign-up sheet, nobody guarding a porch at 5am.
You text once, everyone knows
One message reaches your whole list, by first name: sale announcements and the morning address drop. The tool guy hears about the tools. The canning ladies, the crafters, the car guys, the antique hunters, and the resellers all hear about exactly what they came for.
Sale day runs itself
Confirmation texts are tickets at the door, and the line polices itself — every ticket tells shoppers to line up in number order and check with the people ahead of them. So you do your morning routine inside — lights on, blue tape on the stairs — and open the front door or the garage to seventy people already in single file, waiting for you to say go. No faces in the windows, nobody wandering the front yard without instructions. You read the line from your own phone, winner drawings bring people back, and line-cutters get quietly handled.
If you can send a text, you can run it
How the line system works.
Open a line. See who's in it. Message everyone at once. Pick a winner. Close the sale out and archive it. Every one of those is a text you send from the phone in your pocket — no laptop on the kitchen counter, no software to learn, nothing to log into at 6am while your crew is staging the house and the line is already forming out front.
We set it up, walk you through it on your first sale, and leave you a one-page cheat sheet for the fridge. Most owners have it down before the doors open.
The details that matter on sale morning
Built by someone who worked the door.
Groups stay together
A family signing up as a group gets consecutive numbers, not scattered ones. Nobody has to text in one at a time and hope they end up near each other.
Your regulars feel known
Returning shoppers don't get asked the same questions every sale. They text in and they're done. Small thing that people notice.
It reads people the way people write
Shoppers don't follow instructions. They text sideways, mistype the city, add a name and a headcount all at once. The system sorts it out instead of arguing with them — that's years of watching real sales, built in.
Getting in line is not signing up for marketing
Taking a spot never adds anyone to your alert list. That's a separate, explicit yes. This is the compliance detail that gets other operators fined.
Text marketing is regulated. This is compliant by design.
Compliance — handled.
Built into the code
- STOP works every way they say it. "Stop", "unsubscribe", "please stop texting me" — all handled instantly.
- Blasts only send during legal hours. Try to send at midnight and the system holds it until morning.
- Every opt-in is logged with the date and the source. That's your proof of consent.
- A registered 10DLC number — carrier-approved business texting, not a personal phone getting flagged as spam.
Who owns what
- Yours forever: your dedicated phone number, your full buyer list exportable anytime, your carrier account and billing, and your complete sale history.
- We handle: building the system, the carrier registration gauntlet, your compliance pages, and ongoing maintenance.
- You never touch code. And you never need us to get at your own data — it lives in your Google account, not ours.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
The line system
Name-verified numbered spots by text. Groups handled, duplicates impossible, positions provable when someone argues at the door at 7am.
The list engine
An explicit-consent marketing list that lives in your own account. Not ours. Not a platform's. Yours, forever.
Cheater detection
Dealers who work the system to land the front of your line every single weekend get flagged to you quietly. What happens next is your call — you stay the judge, the system does the enforcing. Built by someone who has watched it happen from the door.
Winner drawings
Draw a winner from the line, fairly, in seconds. The prize is your call: a two minute early walk-through before doors open, a $100 sale credit, a best shopper trophy. Everyone else leaves thinking "next week, that's mine." And back they come.
Sale-by-sale analytics, kept for you
Every sale archives itself: the date, everyone who lined up, and how much your list grew. Watch your company's growth with your own eyes, sale after sale, and bring the numbers to the next kitchen table.
Run it alone, or hand it off
Everything works from your own phone. And the day you want help, a manager or crew member can read lines and draw winners from theirs, without the ability to touch your list or your marketing.
Carrier registration, done for you
Business texting requires carrier approval, compliant opt-in pages, and registration most companies fail. We run the whole gauntlet for you.
White-glove first sale
We don't hand you a login and disappear. Your first sale runs with us on the phone, start to finish.
The largest listing platform in the industry sold to an overseas company. One of the biggest franchises sold to private equity. And the buyers you bring to their platform? They keep those.
Every sale you run builds their audience, not yours. The followers, the favorites, the attendee lists all live on the platform, and none of it is exportable. If their prices go up, or a better platform comes along, you walk away with nothing but your socials and your email list. And both of those are "if they happen to see it" channels.
Texts are not. This system reaches the one thing every buyer carries every single day: their phone. On a list that lives in your own account, with your name on it, that no acquisition, price hike, or platform pivot can take away from you.
And to be clear: nobody's telling you to leave the platform. Keep listing where the buyers are. This system just does the one thing listings never will: it turns every buyer they send you into your buyer from then on. A tool in your toolbox, right next to theirs. The difference is, this one you own.
Any company. Any size. Better odds.
You don't need big lines to start. The system is how you get them.
Already pulling crowds?
- Run the doors from your own phone, or hand that job to a manager while you cover three sales at once.
- Name-verified numbered lines end the door arguments before they start.
- Walk into every bid with the one number the other companies can't say out loud.
Still building your list?
- Every sale adds buyers automatically. The list compounds weekend over weekend.
- Winner drawings send shoppers home thinking "next week, that's mine." And back they come.
- When a family asks who can actually pull a crowd, you'll be the one with receipts.
Built by a guy who's carried the couch.
Kaleb Hoppe has been in estate sales since 2014. He started at the bottom of the ladder with Grasons, one of the largest estate sale companies in the country with 70-plus franchise locations: hauling furniture up and down stairs, staging houses, learning pricing, driving the dump trailer, trashing out at the end of every sale. Eventually he ran a crew of his own in Idaho and did all of it, from loading the trucks to setup, pricing, selling, cashiering, trash-outs, and managing the crew.
He didn't learn estate sales to sell software. He learned software after twelve years of estate sales. Every feature in this system started as something he watched the owners he worked for deal with in the real world.
He's seen buyers camp out overnight and mark their spots with lawn chairs, rocks, coffee cups, and even a plastic Frankenstein head. He's seen names scratched off paper lists and arguments over who got there first. This system brings order to that chaos, and the shoppers who've used it love it.
Straight pricing
One estate pays for the year.
The texts themselves run about a penny each, billed at cost to your own account. Reaching three hundred buyers costs about three dollars. Live in about two weeks, carrier registration included.
See it work before you talk to anybody. Then, when you're ready, call or text (208) 920-9725.
Prefer email? contact@grizzlycovedigital.com · A Grizzly Cove Digital system
Answers before you ask.
Longer answers, including how estate sale numbers work and which sign-up sheet method actually holds up, live on the answers page.
Doesn't the big listing platform already do this?
Top-tier listing packages can include a line tool. Ask one to text everyone in your line right now. Ask it for last month's buyers. Ask to export your list. Theirs writes down who showed up. Yours lets you reach those buyers for the rest of your career.
Do my customers need an app?
No. They text your own text line (a new number in your business name, not your cell) like they'd text a friend. No app, no account, no password. That's the whole point.
Is text marketing legal?
This system is built compliance-first: marketing goes only to people who explicitly said yes, STOP unsubscribes instantly and automatically, quiet hours are enforced in code, and every client is carrier-registered with their own compliant opt-in pages. It's handled.
What happens if I cancel?
Thirty days notice, either direction. Your customer list, your phone number, and your texting account are yours and go with you. No lock-in by design, because retention should come from the product being worth it.
How fast can I be live?
About two weeks. Carriers review every new business texting number, and we run that entire registration for you. It's the boring part, it's included, and it's why your texts actually arrive instead of dying in spam.
What does it cost my customers?
Nothing. Joining your list is free for them, and standard message and data rates apply like any other text they send.