Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Auction is scheduled and then …
Kurt recently wrote about auctioneers entering into contracts with sellers, where the sellers want to sign the contract for auction, but...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 8, 20133 min read
Auctioneers have to excite their bidders?
Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla. You...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 6, 20132 min read
Good morning “Colonel!”
My great-uncle Arthur VanAusdall was a clerk for a local auctioneer, and my immediate family routinely attended farm auctions to buy...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 1, 20134 min read
Auctioneers: USPAP compliance for appraisals?
We wrote about auctioneers acting as appraisers with commentary regarding some related issues here:http://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 27, 20133 min read
Auctioneer can’t sell items prior to auction?
Sometimes, people stop by Manny’s auction the day before — or the afternoon of — and see an item or two they want to buy “right now.”...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 22, 20132 min read
Auctioneers and their apparel
Not that auctioneers aren’t famous in their communities, and therefore recognizable. These days, even if the auctioneer isn’t famous, he...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 17, 20132 min read
The cost shift in auction advertising
The auctioneer I worked for was a fairly busy auctioneer, holding 1-2 personal property auctions per week in the Columbus, Ohio area. For...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 14, 20132 min read
Early specialization in bid calling … 10,000 hours?
Practice makes perfect? Practice makes permanent? Probably. Younger golfers winning major championships. Younger singers winning vocal...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 12, 20132 min read
Auctioneers and political correctness?
Mostly when I hear the words “politically correct,” I think someone is noting that another term — other words — should be used in place...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 7, 20133 min read
The word “auction” is the item or the event?
In fact, maybe in the entire world? Our question today is: Does anyone really know what an auction is? In that regard, does the word...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 2, 20132 min read
The withdrawal at absolute auction
Yet, it’s maybe the most misunderstood (or at least the most misinterpreted) four paragraphs of law involving auctioneers. Today we focus...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 31, 20132 min read
Auctioneers and handheld microphones
Auctioneers should always use sound amplification equipment when bid calling. We wrote as much here: http://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpre...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 27, 20132 min read
What exactly is a “public” auction?
Today, we ask “What exactly does the word ‘public’ mean in relation to the word ‘auction?'” It appears the British organized regular...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 24, 20133 min read
Combating theft at auction
In other words, Randall thinks he got some good deals … That’s not what we’re talking about today. Rather than talking about perceived...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 20, 20133 min read
Your bid is irrevocable?
His interest in auctions began as a child, when he would go to auctions with his mother, Carol, in the Roanoke, Virginia area. They...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 18, 20133 min read
Only certain bidders?
Many say, “With online auction software, we have thousands of bidders from all over the world …” and maybe that does differentiate online...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 14, 20133 min read
Does the unknown sell for more at auction?
Jar full of wheat pennies. If we don’t open the box, with our knowledge of what was in the other boxes … If we don’t check the pennies...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 10, 20132 min read
NAA & St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
The NAA adopted St. Jude as its national philanthropy in 1995. Since that time NAA has raised over $4,000,000 for the hospital. NAA has...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 7, 20132 min read
Corporations are people (in the auction association business?)
Subsequently, I joined the Ohio Auctioneers Association, the Indiana Auctioneers Association and the Michigan State Auctioneers...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 3, 20132 min read
Look at my auction: AuctionZip Auctioneer ID # 9281743
Stuart was teaching a class at the West Virginia Auctioneers Association Convention last month. He suggested that there were good ways...
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