Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
10 things to know when attending your first live auction
Some people have never been to a live auction. Today we discuss 10 (ten) things to know when attending your first auction: Check the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 27, 20202 min read
Auctioneers & IRS Form 8300 reporting
The law requires that trades and businesses (such as auctioneers) report cash payments of more than $10,000 to the federal government by...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 26, 20202 min read
Auctioneers, firearms and raffles
If the organization owns the gun being raffled, and all other laws are being followed in that particular state about raffles, that...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 25, 20203 min read
It is not worth what it won’t sell for
Terry Mangum said something similar and he’s exactly right: It is not worth what it won’t sell for. In other words, a piano listed...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 21, 20202 min read
Why hire a National Auctioneers Association member auctioneer?
National Auctioneers Association (NAA) member. NAA members are exposed to the preeminent auction-related education opportunities...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 20, 20202 min read
We’re going to auction the safe … unopened?
We wrote in 2013 addressing if the “known” or the “unknown” sells better and concluded that the circumstances matter: ...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 17, 20202 min read
Can an auctioneer sell something he knows nothing about?
Auctioneers who contract with sellers to serve as their auctioneer to market, promote and secure the highest possible bid need to know...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 13, 20202 min read
We’re selling this stuff at auction, unless we decide otherwise
Our most recent treatise on that subject is here: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/auctions-which-are-or-not-fair-...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 12, 20202 min read
[Auctioneer] licensing doesn’t matter to consumers
Stanford University economist Brad Larsen along with Ciara Farronato of Harvard, Andrey Fradkin of Boston University, and Erik...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 11, 20202 min read
The question was, “Can I bid what I want to bid?”
https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/bid-calling-is-just-numbers/. An out-of-town bidder arrived at our auction house...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 10, 20202 min read
Auction cancellation fee that is fair
As such, in the National Auctioneers Association award-winning magazine (Auctioneer, December 2019/January 2020) Matthew Parker...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 7, 20202 min read
Auctioneers advertising their auction at your auction
Take this above auction advertisement of groceries, drapery, ironmongery, and furniture. Can Mr. John Fisher advertise his March 6, 1869...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 6, 20203 min read
Online auction where he can’t bid, they can’t bid and/or maybe nobody can bid …
So, auctioneers are no-doubt being advised to put in their terms that if the online bidding platform is not accessible, the auction can...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 5, 20202 min read
Auctioneers and payment methods
PayPal … in other words, we have tried to keep up with commerce generally in the United States. We wrote prior about us beginning to...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 4, 20203 min read
Auction seller wants to sell to anyone but a certain person
The seller/owner tells the auctioneer she wants to sell all her property to the highest bidder — but that she wants to sell her sewing...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 3, 20202 min read
Auctioneers checking Facebook for facts?
Facebook for any facts. Clint Eastwood said … the Second Amendment guarantees … the UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute dictates...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 31, 20202 min read
Curious auction terms & conditions
The key issue when selling absolute is to advertise that the auction is absolute (without reserve) so that bidders are properly notified....
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 30, 20203 min read
What online auctions could have become
Sunday, November 10 I boarded a plane to Philadelphia to serve as lead auctioneer for an event there on Monday. I arrived at John Glenn...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 29, 20202 min read
Marbury v. Madison and firearms
I would ask this question … if the Supreme Court can be the final arbiter of federal law in the United States, can cases such as United...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 28, 20202 min read
Why buy at auction?
First, an auction might be the only place to find what you’re looking for as retail otherwise often doesn’t concentrate on used items. ...
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