Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Are bid-calling contracts potentially assignable?
Given that auctioneer bid calling (and online “bid calling”) obviously creates contracts, our question today involves if a high bidder...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 28, 20232 min read
Auction bid calling creates contracts
Yes, absolutely, live bid calling (and even online auctions) create contracts. One such contract is when the auctioneer (or software)...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 24, 20232 min read
Auctions and a “level playing field”
It’s unfortunate that yet again we have to note that horrible advice was fortunately countered by the West Virginia Supreme Court of...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 22, 20232 min read
Should “US” sell only to “US?”
I noted a preposterous proposal — that given there has been so much land purchased by “foreigners” in the United States auctioneers can...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 20, 20233 min read
The importance of talent
Auctioneers and auction companies sell a wide variety of properties worldwide. In the United States, a wide variety of specialized...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 15, 20233 min read
Except whatever else we express?
Could an auctioneer say that except for what he expresses (at a certain time) buyers cannot rely on anything else he expresses (at other...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 13, 20232 min read
An auctioneer did (and didn’t) do something?
I’ve not seen such a defense of malfeasance but I would guess this is how it would play out. If an auctioneer was guilty of a crime, the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 9, 20233 min read
Bid-less minutes and urgency
Auctioneers typically selling property online conduct an auction with a “soft close” As such, if a bid is placed near the end of the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 6, 20233 min read
We’re selling your property for “no fee?”
We started using a marketing strategy in the early 1990s where we advertised to property owners that we could sell their property “for...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 17, 20232 min read
Online bidding turned off prior to live auction?
Many auctioneers conduct simulcast auctions with online and live bidding occurring at the same time. These same auctioneers often allow...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 15, 20232 min read
Auctioneers tell me “benefit” doesn’t matter …
Yes, prices do indeed go up somewhat frequently. We noted in 2020 that prices did go up for many auctioneers, and we were surprised by...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 13, 20234 min read
“AS IS” and what it is, maybe is, or isn’t
Let’s say this picture is an actual fork, marked “sterling silver.” Sterling silver here in the United States is generally by weight...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 10, 20232 min read
Auction increment nonsense
We have conducted thousands of auctions, and taught auction bid calling techniques around the United States, and testified in several...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 6, 20233 min read
Auctions and the “previous” bidder
All too often, a high bidder retracts his bid, and the previous bidder is made the high bidder without his knowledge or consent. Is...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 4, 20233 min read
Who are we working for?
I wonder sometimes. Are we real estate (real property) auctioneers working for our client’s best interest or our own? We’ve sold real...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 31, 20232 min read
When you’re selling “high-valued” assets
If there’s been one consistent message I’ve tried to deliver over the past 10 years or more — it’s that when auctioneers are selling...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 28, 20232 min read
Can (and do) auctioneers change the “size” of the “ask?”
The short answer is, “yes.” Relatedly, this has been going on for as long as auctions have been used to sell property in the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 26, 20232 min read
Apparently little known bid calling basics
If you have participated in a live or online auction, the auctioneer’s “chant” nor the online platform is generally placing bids. We say...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 16, 20233 min read
What “Sold!” doesn’t have — a dispute
In the case of Kline v. Fineberg, 481 So. 2d 108, 109 n.1 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985) the court analyzed what happened at the auction. ...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 11, 20234 min read
The cost of that “one more” bid …
The argument is, essentially, if an auctioneer is to maximize price for the seller, and a bid comes in “while the hammer is falling in...
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