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Conflicting Information …
That article can be read in full here: Online auction company wants you to stay home. Today, we’re writing about a recent outage of...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 9, 20122 min read


Auctioneers are secondhand dealers?
This would require detailed record-keeping, daily government inventory reporting and “product holds” with police and/or sheriff...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 4, 20122 min read


Online auctioneer policy changes
In essence, they are now being more upfront with bidders when the bidder’s maximum absentee bid [maximum pre-bid] is disclosed to the...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 3, 20123 min read


How ethical are auctioneers?
Most recently in Indiana, with a group of nearly 100 auctioneers I was asked (during the class) how ethical I thought auctioneers were....

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 2, 20122 min read


NAA International Auctioneer Championship Scoring
The National Auctioneers Association’s (NAA) International Auctioneer Championship (IAC) is a premier event, held each year at the NAA...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 30, 20122 min read


Absentee bids & the UCC 2-328
Dick’s thought regarded maximizing absentee bids and that practice in relation to the UCC 2-328. As we discussed in our story about...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 29, 20123 min read


UCC 2-328 Confusion
Nebraska Unicameral Information Office Despite there being only four (4) somewhat small passages making up the UCC 2-328, there is often...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 27, 20122 min read


When does the hammer start to fall?
“Where a bid is made while the hammer is falling in acceptance of a prior bid …” meant that somewhere between the “S” and the “D” of the...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 17, 20122 min read


Seller commission, sales tax & buyer’s premium?
In the latter, auctioneers must correctly calculate seller commissions, sales tax and buyer premiums — both when reconciling with bidders...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 13, 20122 min read


Is buying at auction considered gambling?
Sometimes he buys things and makes money, and other times he buys things and loses money. Cory assumes a risk when he buys something — as...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 9, 20123 min read


Selling yourself, then their property …
He is to meet with Mary and Richard Gaines about selling Mary’s late mother’s real and personal property at auction. Upon arriving, Jim...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 7, 20123 min read


When & Where: The UCC 2-328 applied to real estate
However we’ll use “real estate” here as this is typically how this question is posed. The UCC 2-328 was finally firmed as to language...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 6, 20122 min read


Number of bidders per item? Number of bids?
Clearly the use of a computer allows for these counts to be calculated and reported. The more of each is deemed better for the seller;...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 5, 20123 min read


Online ownership prior to auction?
For example, say the auction date is November 15. November 1 the auction house places a list of the items to be offered at auction on...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 1, 20122 min read


Should auctioneers announce the buyer’s (or bidder’s) name? Part II
Our original story is here: Should auctioneers announce the buyer’s (or bidder’s) name? Nancy purchased a rare pair of Japanese Carl...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 25, 20112 min read


The law allows one bid to be placed?
In December, 2009, Harold French, a licensed auctioneer attended an auction conducted by Stephen Bennett, another licensed auctioneer....

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 24, 20113 min read


Personal property at auction
Auctioneers sell personal property at auction every day in the United States and other places around the globe. For one auctioneer, that...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 20, 20114 min read


Retraction made while the hammer is falling?
One such “playing field” issue is that outside of seller withdrawal, the buyer may retract his bid anytime before the property is deemed...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 11, 20113 min read


History Channel – the Real Deal?
The added exposure for the auction method of marketing is beneficial to all of those involved in the auction business. I don’t doubt...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 4, 20113 min read


An auctioneer’s best client
What traits would the best client have? What traits would the best client not have? If we base our evaluation on what might be a typical...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Nov 29, 20112 min read
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