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

These auctions often take me from, for example, Columbus (Ohio) to Washington D.C. to Los Angeles to Chicago, and then back to Columbus,...

We concluded rather swiftly, that the answer was, “No,” that auctioneers were not commodities. Let’s first look at what a commodity is:...