We sold lots of real and personal property at live auctions for decades, until our first online (simulcast) auction was held. In that...

We discussed a few months ago the issue of auctioneers not advertising their auctions in certain places because they disagree with that...

An auctioneer told me he had a database of 30,000+ … what? He said, “buyers” but I’m not convinced. In other words, 30,000+ people who...

Are you as an auctioneer growing weary of auction bidders? They bid and then get outbid and cry foul. They win as the highest bidder...

Auctioneers post an immense amount of fake news on Facebook and other social media sites. Yes, “immense” is the word — as in every day,...

We’ve held that actually auctioneers only need “alpha” and “beta” (the highest possible bidder and the next highest possible bidder) and...

Auctioneers are typically well-known in their communities, and some are even known regionally or nationally. As such, it’s best we are...

Auctioneers who contract with sellers to serve as their auctioneer to market, promote and secure the highest possible bid need to know...

Facebook for any facts. Clint Eastwood said … the Second Amendment guarantees … the UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute dictates...

What that doesn’t mean is that all of that data is factual; nor does it mean that with more users the data generally becomes more...

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...

https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/internet-auction-calendars/. It’s now 2018 and about seven years later from this...

John Schultz via a Facebook post. Yes, this is a newspaper cartoon placed in the Spring Valley Tribune — suggesting for marketing (or...

For that matter, people at auctions record video and take pictures frequently. They take pictures of the themselves, auctioneers, staff,...

Based upon primarily Facebook — and other encounters with auctioneers around the country, it would appear to me nearly all auctioneers...

To paraphrase, he asked … “I wonder how one’s social media presence and activity may affect contract auctioneering and overall auctioneer...

After graduating from The Ohio State University, I attended auction school. Soon after I was working as an auctioneer in the Columbus,...

Restaurants have to have customers to survive. It’s pretty much a numbers game — the more customers, the more profit and likewise, the...

Recently, there has been some surprising discussion about the merits of auctioneers using certain hashtags on Facebook and other social...

Selling an oil painting for $500 is wonderful if the seller is expecting $200 and not good at all if the seller is expecting $2,000. As a...