Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Here’s what you bought — not what we pictured
He thought he was buying something else because the picture showed the villa(s) and further did not mark, outline or otherwise denote...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 22, 20192 min read
Auctioneers and the statute of limitations
While the “statute of limitations” varies around the United States and by circumstance, many states have a general four-year statute of...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 16, 20192 min read
Is the minimum bid really the minimum bid?
What if an auctioneer says, “This property’s minimum bid is $550,000” and then it sells at auction for $520,000? The advertising said...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 9, 20192 min read
Auctions: Changing ages and tastes? Indeed
We wrote about this subject here in 2015: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/what-some-collectors-cant-find-buyers/....
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 5, 20192 min read
Christie’s spirit of disclosure
Christie’s. Here we share with you some of their disclosures which are quite frankly difficult to find otherwise in the auction...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 2, 20192 min read
Attention auctioneers: it’s worth this and for sale for that?
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...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 30, 20192 min read
Competing in auctioneer contests
Ohio State Fair. I was always inspired by words of wisdom passed down to competitors about competing, winning and losing. One such list...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 24, 20192 min read
First amendment lessons for auctioneers
As someone who’s published a blog for almost 10 years, we are especially attentive to our right to publish and for our content to be...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 22, 20192 min read
Cheaper, faster or better?
If we’re cheap and fast, we’re probably not better If we’re cheap and better, we’re probably not fast If we’re fast and better, we’re...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 19, 20192 min read
The opening bid incentive
For instance, say a [thought-to-be] $10,000,000 property is up for auction. The auctioneer says that he will pay a 13% opening bid...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 16, 20192 min read
Bidder is registered but we won’t take his bid?
https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/does-a-bid-number-grant-the-right-to-bid/. Today’s topic involves an auctioneer...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 12, 20192 min read
The NAA IAC Final Round Questions ’19
At the 2019 National Auctioneers Association (NAA) International Auctioneer Championship (IAC) held Friday, July 12 in New Orleans,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 5, 20192 min read
Online auction providers and those late to the game
However, several years later, this platform and others evolved into connecting sellers with bidders/buyers directly with no traditional...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 3, 20192 min read
Auction bidders pay more when warm?
Our analysis is here, contrasting live auctions with online auctions: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/auction-atmo...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 27, 20192 min read
Is it fraudulent inducement or not?
https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/that-other-bidder-and-fraudulent-inducement/. Most materially, we noted here that...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 25, 20192 min read
Setting the bid in …
https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2017/04/13/should-the-auctioneer-set-the-bid-in/. For instance, “I have $500 and want $550...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 19, 20192 min read
Farmers stand together so 80 acre farm goes for one bid?
https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/one-bid-and-200-other-bidders-stand-in-silence/. In that treatise, we suggested...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 17, 20193 min read
We have a big mailing list and a large database of bidders …
However, today we focus on that “big mailing list and large database of bidders” in that what difference does that make? In other words,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 13, 20193 min read
… it doesn’t sell so we put it on eBay?
eBay so that “… unsold auction goods automatically list on eBay and are optimized for visibility. It’s a unique marketing tool that...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 11, 20192 min read
Auctioneers holding that microphone
Why enter an auctioneer contest https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/why-enter-an-auctioneer-contest/ How to win an...
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