We’ve held (and been told) that the “seller confirmation” fanatics support holding auctions of this type in case the property doesn’t...

Should auctioneers guarantee their sellers any certain results from the auction of their property? Should sellers be persuaded to sell at...

Auctioneers tell me bidders won’t bid past published reserves. Auctioneers tell me bidders won’t bid past pre-auction estimates. In...

Auctioneer says it’s worth $40,000 and it sells for $25,000. Another auctioneer says it’s worth $10,000 and it sells for $25,000. Our...

We have been in the auction and appraisal business for decades. We’ve written about the appraisal industry many times and have...

Appraisers often [rightly] use auction values as evidence of value. Yet, we wonder today if an auction with reserve (or a forced sale)...

These days we see it all the time: “Our auction exceeded all expectations,” or “The auction was twice what we were expecting.” It’s a...

Do auctions work better when sellers provide as much information as possible about what they are selling? Two American economists who...

At an auction, who wins? The highest bidder, who outbids everyone else. Let’s ask another question … who loses? Maybe this same bidder...

There may be no better person to talk to if you are trying to discern if this “thing” is trash or treasure. Auctioneers are exposed to...

Auctioneers can’t ever seem to believe it … a vendor raised prices. It could be software, a platform’s sell-through, training,...

Say an auctioneer puts up for auction 100 western saddles dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. For an online auction, bidding takes place...

First, an auction might be the only place to find what you’re looking for as retail otherwise often doesn’t concentrate on used items. ...

Our question today is … can you just give yourself a raise? In other words, you’ve been charging 10% on real property deals, so this...

I can get something estimated to be worth $131,500 for $497? I can get something estimated to be worth $20,000 for $297? It would seem...

… A fraction of 1% saved in power transmitted soon pays the cost difference between a poor belt and a good one. One breakdown may wipe...

Facebook‘s stock plunged 19% losing about $119 billion in market value constituting the biggest single-day loss for any public company in...

But what about that picture of your grandfather standing on the beach in Hawaii in 1936? There’s only one of these pictures so it too is...

https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/different-types-of-auctions/ The right for the seller to bid — outside of a forced...

As an example, we sold a replica “General Lee” 1969 Dodge Charger at auction about 15 years ago. Let’s just say that buyer calls me...