Countless auctioneers work with sellers, clients, or consignees and many times the auctioneer dictates the commission or charge for their...

You are an auctioneer and you don’t charge a buyer’s premium. Why not? I continue to hear that charging such is a disservice,...

Auctioneers who charge a buyer’s premium are being told they shouldn’t be charging a buyer’s premium. Maybe auctioneers who solely...

Let’s see … what is an auctioneer’s job? To maximize price for our seller/client? To solve the seller/client’s problem? Indeed this is...

We previously wrote about so-called “tiered” auctioneer commissions utilized to [properly] address uncertainty:...

Auctioneers take on a number of diverse projects — maybe contract bid calling one day, cleaning and readying farm equipment the next day,...

We wrote about auctioneers purchasing and not paying any less nor more than anyone else, despite charging commission. That treatise can...

When I was attending auction school, we would go out at night to various local auction houses to practice our bid calling and stage...

Sotheby’s announced recently they were instituting a new “Overhead Premium” of 1% on the hammer price to cover: The overhead costs...

A recent caller asked me, “If the auctioneer purchased my items, do I still pay commission?” My answer was, “Yes, you do, so long as the...

While most all net listings are deemed illegal in real property transactions, are net listings legal when the subject property is...

Of course, not all retail buyers are inexperienced, and not all sellers are professional. However, our question is generally who is...

Generally, market prices (including auctioneer commissions) are determined by the marketplace. Prices in virtually any market depend...

As such, it certainly got our attention when it was suggested that in the case of buyer breach of contract, the buyer’s premium would be...

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,...

Most live auctions (with no online component) advertise the significant items with maybe one picture of each, and some description ending...

I asked for an opening bid of $1,000 and dropped down to $500 when a known-silver-buyer opened the bid at $300. I asked $350 and got it,...

Some auctions/auctioneers charge a buyer’s premium, and some do not. There is no right or wrong about charging a buyer’s premium — but...

We have issues in the United States regarding people who have committed crimes — denying them licensing, the right to vote, the right to...

We have discussed this issue numerous times including most recently here: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/is-that...