I was called to help a younger auctioneer with his farm equipment auction. Other than some hints on staffing, marketing, and related, he...

There are possibly two different types of situations here: Sellers and buyers consummating deals during/after the auction with property...

https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/one-bid-and-200-other-bidders-stand-in-silence/. In that treatise, we suggested...

Bidders sometimes arrange to not bid against each other thus depressing prices. Some bidders engage other bidders to “make sure” their...

The entire story is here: https://www.holidaysincornwall.com/farmers-stand-in-silence-at-auction-so-a-young-man-can-buy-back-his-family-...

In brief, it is an illegal agreement involving bid rigging and price suppression, in violation of law inclusive of the Sherman Antitrust...

Presumably, such a display of commission rates enables potential clients to see what that auctioneer charges, and make judgements about...

Technically, colluding on price amongst competitors, also known as horizontal price fixing, is viewed as a per se violation of the...

Vince arrives to a restaurant auction on Saturday and finds several palettes of new coffee filters. He estimates that there are about...

The story goes, in part, that Pritchard and Juno conspired to “appraise” a Confederate Civil War sword on the Antiques Roadshow...

Bidders at auctions behave in all kinds of ways. From very serious buyers to others who just come to watch. Our subject today regards one...

We wrote about auction bid rigging, also known as auction collusion, some time ago. First, is there a difference between “rig rigging”...

A tag sale involves, basically, a person hired by the fiduciary who will “price” each item with a tag, indicating that the item is...

We ask here, “What is collusion at an auction?” Collusion at an auction can involve bidders (buyers), sellers, and/or auctioneers. ...

Almost always, this will be the bidders choice, i.e. their decision which one or more they take for the high bid price each, although it...