Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
The “corruption” of the auction industry?
Some might say (including Shannon Hunter, Auctioneer) that these are the two most material issues in the auction industry today. In...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 5, 20173 min read
The top five questions I tend to get
While we’ve received 100’s of questions, there are five we tend to get most often. Here we answer those top five with basic information...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 31, 20173 min read
“As-is” and I can or can’t inspect?
Bill’s father Gene had served in the Unites States Air Force from 1947 until his retirement in 1991 and had flown these 19B’s (UH-19’s)...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 28, 20172 min read
Auctioneers “Engaging in the business” of selling firearms
Federal Firearms License. So what does it mean to be engaged in the business of selling firearms at auction? The Bureau of Alcohol,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 24, 20172 min read
Auction: Control and possession of firearms
We continue to analyze prudent behavior for auctioneers when selling firearms at auction. In this treatise, we address specifically an...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 21, 20172 min read
Auctioneer, FFL and Contracts
More specifically, as we have written before, the non-FFL auctioneer can sell firearms in basically one situation: The sole circumstance...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 18, 20173 min read
Firearms, serial numbers and auctioneers
Today’s subject involves serial numbers on those firearms and similar devices. In regard to firearms and serial numbers, we first...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 16, 20174 min read
Auctioneers with FFLs “acting as if” they aren’t? Indeed they can …
Our topic today references in particular 18 U.S.C. § 923 (a) ATF Rul. 96-2 which says that even auctioneers who are FFLs can sell...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 14, 20173 min read
The auction of firearms and qualified events
Let me begin with this: generally this type of thought process is not a bad thing — “Is there a better way to do this?” “Wonder if I can...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 10, 20172 min read
Auction deemed a stunt?
Recently, an auction of the Lincoln Park Plaza (Michigan) apparently did not result in a completed sale. Adam Miller, Lincoln Park’s...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 7, 20172 min read
Auctioneer associations — licensing & discipline
It is not unusual for an auctioneer association executive director, officer and/or director to receive a communication from a consumer...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 2, 20172 min read
The Auctioneer’s Gift
The auctioneer leaped on a chair, and bold and loud and clear. He poured his cataract of words, just like an auctioneer. An auction sale...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 28, 20174 min read
The integrity of the bidding process
Our topic today specifically regards bankruptcy auctions, but applies equally and reasonably to any type of auction anywhere in the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 24, 20173 min read
Does it cost to register?
Sometimes auctioneers charge a fee to register for an auction. For instance, to obtain a bid card, the bidder must provide...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 19, 20175 min read
‘Reasonably advantageous’ auction terms
I stay at many hotels throughout the year (although I have never stayed at the Black Bear Hotel in Allentown, Pennsylvania.) In doing so,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 17, 20172 min read
The NAA IAC Final Round Questions ’17
At the 2017 National Auctioneers Association (NAA) International Auctioneer Championship (IAC) recently held Friday, July 14 in Columbus,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 8, 20173 min read
Bid calling really does matter
Further, we wrote that auctioneers who are highly skilled in bid calling are paid a premium over those who are not, and that additional...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 6, 20172 min read
Auctioneers, auctions and title
There is substantial case law all across the United States which suggests as an agent for the seller, the auctioneer is bound to verify...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 29, 20172 min read
Real estate agents … auctioneers … and real estate auctioneers.
“They say that [Zillow,] a company they empowered and trusted, is taking advantage of them.” Yep — auctioneers heard how many times...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 26, 20172 min read
Christie’s manifestly unreasonable terms and conditions
Christie’s is one of the world’s oldest and best known auction houses. They opened in London, England in 1766 and in New York in 1977. ...
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