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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 1, 20173 min read
Auction terms versus auction descriptions …
So the auctioneer/auction company is able to succinctly express the precise terms and conditions of the auction — you must pay within 36...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 30, 20173 min read
Pinhooking in the auction business
If alley trading, owner A is set to sell his car in the auction. Just before, B buys the car from A for $10,000. Then B runs the car...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 24, 20172 min read
Bilingual Auctioneers …
We as auctioneers might want to start exploring Spanish and other languages as our auction crowds already have … and as we were...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 22, 20172 min read
Bidders, last good faith bids and recourse
That analysis is here: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/if-the-seller-bids/ As we have stated in countless...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 18, 20172 min read
Auctioneer setting the bid in at the stated minimum?
We recently wrote twice about auctioneers setting the bid in: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/should-the-auctionee...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 15, 20172 min read
The Auctioneer Triple Crown
Although there are dozens of auctioneer bid calling contests in the United States each year, the three most well-known and prestigious...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 11, 20172 min read
Auctions where buyer won’t pay; seller won’t convey
A bidder becomes the buyer and he refuses to pay for his purchase. A seller refuses to convey the property after a bidder becomes the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 4, 20172 min read
Auctioneer handheld microphone danger
Our question today is, “What are the auctioneer handheld (and/or even headset or lavaliere) microphone dangers, if any?” You are an...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 3, 20172 min read
Six auctioneer vocal cord myths
This prompted us to write today, “Six auctioneer vocal cord myths,” with this being the first misconception: Nothing that you eat or...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 28, 20172 min read
Online-only auction platform goes down …
We have previously written about online auction bidding becoming unavailable: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/onl...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 25, 20172 min read
Sued because of auction sale price
Here’s one such article from 2012 where the sellers actually sued the buyers for “buying too cheaply:” https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wor...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 19, 20173 min read
Diversity in the auction business, NAA
Bock noted in his article that 70 percent of Google’s employees were men, 61 percent of its total workforce were white, another 30...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 17, 20172 min read
But that other bidder was drunk
Today, we explore the rights (if any) a high bidder may have if someone drunk or otherwise impaired bids against him. We broached this...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 13, 20173 min read
Should the auctioneer “set the [bid] in?”
Randy Wells says, “I ran a weekly auction house for 17 years and I can say that I probably started 98.9% of the items we sold.” We have...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 10, 20172 min read
Can auctioneers trust any online platform?
And, so far almost every online platform (once with enough data and/or enough money on the table) has decided to do one of two things:...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 5, 20172 min read
At auction without the genuine intent to sell
We’ve written extensively about auctions where the seller has the “Genuine intent to transfer to the highest bidder regardless of price.”...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 1, 20172 min read
But the bidders chose to bid again …
We would suggest not, and cite that the Supreme Court of the United States stated such in 1850. In what is the first substantive court...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 29, 20172 min read
Can auction bidders pay too much or over value?
Quite frankly, we’re a bit surprised with these two questions — that they actually deserve detailed answers. Can bidders pay too much? ...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 27, 20171 min read
Car auction lights
What do those lights mean at a car auction? There is certainly no nationwide standard, but there is a pattern. Generally, most all buyers...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 23, 20173 min read
When can auctioneers reopen the bid?
Of the few court cases involving this issue, what has resulted is a somewhat mixed message about reopening for so-called tie-bids,...
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