Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
What? Facebook can make its own rules?
Too, I am regularly amused when I see that auctioneers don’t think Facebook and other such entities can make their own rules about posts,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Oct 11, 20192 min read
The habitual backup bidders
I saw this one person bidding just below $1,300 not to go over my bid — like this person knew how much my max bid amount was … It’s not...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Oct 9, 20194 min read
Federal law, auctioneers and firearms
Some of these laws are United States Code (Federal Law,) while others are regulatory laws from the Code of Federal Regulations. Further,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Oct 7, 20193 min read
Bids that can/can’t be placed at auction
Here’s who can and can’t bid for the two types of auctions (with reserve and without reserve:) Absolute (without reserve) auctions:...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Oct 4, 20192 min read
The value of any auction calendar website
AuctionZip.com was free to list auctions. Then, it was $10 to list auctions, then it was $20 to list auctions … and so forth. Of...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Oct 2, 20194 min read
How easily could an auctioneer get caught running the bid?
Indiana Auctioneers Association titled “Auction Best Practices,” it is rare that we can disclose specific details about any of the cases...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 30, 20192 min read
Disclose the identities of backup bidders to winning bidders?
Why would a high bidder at $50,000 want to know this? Clearly this high bidder thinks maybe there wasn’t a bidder at $49,000. ...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 26, 20192 min read
The Accredited Auctioneer of Real Estate Designation
National Auctioneers Association (NAA) Accredited Auctioneer of Real Estate (AARE) Designation Class. As the NAA advertises: AARE is...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 25, 20192 min read
The State of the United States Auction Market — 2018
National Auctioneers Association engaged Morpace (now Escalent) to survey the auction industry about 10 years ago. As well, in 2010 the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 23, 20193 min read
Buyer’s premiums: awareness and effect
Another auctioneer noted that being aware of the buyer’s premium and it having an effect on one’s bidding are two different things. As...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 20, 20192 min read
Guinness World [Auction] Record?
Guinness World Records has ever heard of, but it’s hardly the most items sold in 12 hours by an auctioneer. Here is the story we saw …...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 18, 20192 min read
Sellers and buyers just after (or during) the auction?
There are possibly two different types of situations here: Sellers and buyers consummating deals during/after the auction with property...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 16, 20192 min read
Auctioneer membership isn’t important? We disagree …
Others say that all the presenters talk about is their successful auctions and others claim that the association only promotes the big...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 11, 20192 min read
Auction buyers are increasingly buyer premium sensitive
However, over 40 years of the buyer’s premium has educated the public to the point that most figure it in when bidding. In other words,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 9, 20192 min read
How competent must auctioneers be?
The National Auctioneers Association dictates in their Code of Ethics that auctioneers [members] “shall recognize the limitations of...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 5, 20192 min read
Auctioneers … information versus affirmation
Colin Cowherd said it. From September, 2017 the quote as I understand it was, “People now only seek affirmation. Not information.” ...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 2, 20193 min read
12 important considerations about auctioneer sound systems …
Most important Company. Does the manufacturer stand behind their products? Some companies only service systems for 5-7 years and then...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 28, 20192 min read
When to disclose the reserve and when not to …
The answer to that question is fairly straightforward. If the minimum is good news, it should be disclosed and if it’s bad news (or...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 26, 20192 min read
Here’s what you bought — not what we pictured
He thought he was buying something else because the picture showed the villa(s) and further did not mark, outline or otherwise denote...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 22, 20192 min read
Auctioneers and the statute of limitations
While the “statute of limitations” varies around the United States and by circumstance, many states have a general four-year statute of...
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