Nobody has time to do that. So we built PixelIQ — a scout that goes through every photo in every Michigan estate-sale listing we can index, and names what it sees. The Pyrex in photo 214. The Craftsman set in photo 57. The thing you told us you've been hunting for years.
When it surfaces, you get the sale, the town, and the morning to be there — before the doors open.
Last weekend's pass, actual count:
One email, Wednesday mornings. Free. That's the whole arrangement.
Wednesday at 7am, your inbox — and if you told us what you're hunting, PixelIQ starts watching the galleries for it this weekend.
Check your Promotions tab if it doesn't show — drag it to Primary so it doesn't get buried.
PixelIQ doesn't just look at them — it writes down what it sees. Every item it can name, which photo it's sitting in, which sale, which town. The listing says “old glassware”; PixelIQ's notes say what's actually in the box. Week after week, that becomes a running record of what's surfacing across Michigan — and your hunt list gets checked against all of it.
The good piece is buried at photo 230 of 282. Nobody scrolls that far. PixelIQ never skips a photo — if your thing is anywhere in Michigan's listings this week, it gets caught.
You're not wandering a sale hoping. You know which sale has it, which town, and what to look for at the door — before the regulars clear the room Thursday morning.
Every issue also surfaces the best buried items PixelIQ caught that week — the pieces no listing named. Plenty of readers found their thing in that list.
One email, Wednesday at 7am. The sale, the town, the hours, and what was spotted — with a day to plan your route before Thursday's doors open. No app to install, no account, no logging in. If your inbox works, the hunt works.
Two things. What you're hunting — plain words, “turquoise Pyrex” or “old Craftsman hand tools” is plenty. And an email address to send the finds to. That's the whole ask. No payment, no phone number, nothing to cancel later — and the unsubscribe link works on the first click.
What PixelIQ is. A computer program we built and trained to read estate-sale photos. It looks at each photo and writes down what it recognizes — brand, type, where in the gallery it sits. A human editor reads its notes and puts the issue together. Software does the looking; a person does the judging.
Where the photos come from. Public estate-sale listings, posted by the companies running the sales. We read the photos where they live and keep only our notes — we don't copy, store, or republish anyone's pictures. The sale companies did the work of photographing; the listings stay theirs.
What we cover — and what we can't. Every Michigan estate sale we can find on the public listing sites, every week. If a sale never gets listed publicly, we can't see it either. Most are listed.
When your thing doesn't turn up. Then you don't hear about it that week — no false alarms, no “close enough” padding. Some hunts take a month. Some take a season. The list keeps watching either way.
What happens with your info. Your email and your hunt list, nothing more. Never sold, never shared, and the unsubscribe link actually works — one click, you're out, no hard feelings.
“My grandma's Pyrex set. The turquoise one with the spice jars. Can't find them anywhere now.”— a reader, Lansing
“Hot Wheels. The 1968 redlines. I had a shoebox full as a kid. Mom threw them out when I went to college.”— a reader, Detroit
“Craftsman tools from the seventies. The hand tools, not the power. They don't make them like that anymore.”— a reader, Grand Rapids
PixelIQ will find which one. Free, every Wednesday.
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