Hordes Of People Showed Up To The Tom Petty Estate Sale

Estate sale hunters were champing at the bit when news of the Tom Petty estate sale in Malibu, California was announced. The 3-day estate sale was held inside Petty’s Malibu home and everything from the furniture to art, and cookbooks to his Stanley cups were up for grabs.

Multiple videos from estate sale hunters popped up showing interminable lines of people waiting for the chance to buy a sheet or towel once owned by the ‘Refugee’ singer.

One video in particular that was uploaded to YouTube by Annestacia Komarovsk caught my attention because of how she zoomed in on a lot of the mundane items. For instance, she paused the camera on the cookbooks that were for sale at the 1:09 mark in the video. I looked up many of the books, all of which sold for $15 at the Tom Petty Estate Sale, and I could only find one of them selling for cheaper on Amazon.

For those keeping track at home…Items at the Tom Petty Estate Sale were pretty reasonable. Prices break down as: bath towels ($10), Large Towels ($15), Beach Towels ($20), Wash Cloth ($3), Finger Towels ($5), Pillow Cases ($10), Sleeping Pillows-Down ($20), Sleeping Pillows-Foam ($10), Sheet Sets ($20), Bed Skirts ($20), Cookbooks ($15), Stanley Tumblers ($20-$24), Metal Road Gear Box ($2,500), Additional Books ($6-$30). The list goes on and on, including an ornate Indian Painted Wooden Box ($750), Large Wooden Cabinets ($950), Large Framed Prints (price unknown), and more.

Around the 4-minute mark in the video she got to look inside the studio in Tom Petty’s Malibu home which, to be fair, would make waiting in those lines worth it for many music fans. There were only 25 shoppers allowed inside at a time so the waits to get in there only ballooned further as the sale carried on.

Another viral video from the Tom Petty estate sale caught my attention on TikTok. This video conveniently brushes past how there were long queues to get inside:

At the end of the day, this was an event where a lot of people showed up for many different reasons. You had a large contingent of diehard Tom Petty fans who wanted any piece of memorabilia from his legendary career. Then, because this was California, there were also a ton of attendees looking to find undervalued pieces they could flip on the secondary market because flipping items found at California estate sales is a full-time job for more people than many realize.

Was anyone there for the wrong reasons? That’s hard to say. I just hope the family gets closure after the estate sale and are able to move on after the loss of their loved one.