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I have seen the overpriced estate sales, in fact there are some estate sale vendors I don't patronize because of the way they do business....however, there are some very fair estate sale companies here too.
The key to work these sales is to go on the first day (if possible) and scan the sale for good stuff. If the prices are fair and you really want something then you can just get it. If they have exhorbitant prices on something like an old TV, the trick is to wait till the last day toward the end of the sale, and they will usually deal at a fair price. If they won't, they are either just nasty people, are running some kind of scheme, or are naive about the marketplace and will be out of business soon.
I don't see why more auctions of estates aren't done these days. When I was a kid I could buy Zenith TV's and old radios etc for 50 cents or a dollar at auctions as these were absolute auctions where everything was sold no matter what price. With an auction, prices are fair, everything is sold that day and there is no junk left over to deal with afterward for the family.
About the Zenith yes 93 was a bad CRT year. My Grandma has a 92 or 93 Zenith and had the bad CRT replaced later in the 90's though, and the set is still going today. The set you saw may have had a replacement CRT in it or was hardly ever used...as every one of these except for my Grandma's I've seen have weak crt's.
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