All of these auctions have been live auctions with a few coupled with online bidding. So given that, there was an auctioneer (me or one...

As a result, Stephen called his longtime auctioneer friend Freddie Marshall. Since Stephen and his wife Kayla couldn’t agree about the...

I had already given this some thought, and dug around in my file cabinet to find where I had written the word: Practical. The word...

The NAA also represents the individual auctioneer and a range of auction professionals servicing a variety of industries. The association...

I was talking to her the other day and ask how things were going … She said, “Great!” I just put two homes into contract and I’ve sold...

Most all auctions in the United States today require the bidders to register before bidding. Such registration for a live auction is...

Why conduct auctions and only sell 60% – 65% of the property, leaving as much as 40% unsold? Manheim COO Janet Barnard recently asked...

Similarly, charity auctions typically involve a charity as defined under IRS regulation section 501(c)(3). These auctions might be for...

In other words, an auction is one type or the other — and necessarily one or the other — and not both. We have written extensively about...

What’s the thinking here? Auctioneers endeavor to use wording to attract bidders — to get them to pay attention to their auction instead...

Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, the NAA represents the interests of thousands of auctioneers in the U.S., Canada and across the...

Do online-only auctioneers hide sale prices (auction results?) It appears to me that most do. Why would an online-only auctioneer do...

Drip … drip … drip … drip … drip … drip … I got up and fumbled my way to the bathroom and turned the faucet handle a bit tighter, and the...

… Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. We’ve embedded the entire speech later if you care to...

Bill is the high bidder at $1,000 and the auctioneer is asking for a bid of $1,100. The auctioneer sees Aaron wave, and takes that as a...

Who is insuring “The Boss” continues to earn some sort of income in the event he loses is voice? Probably Lloyd’s of London Officially...

He won about $700 worth of items, and inquired about the selling prices of a few other items on which he left absentee bids. I’m glad to...

My prospective client told me that the auctioneer he had just met with earlier that day sold a very similar piece for a “world record”...

Twas a cold afternoon as the neighbors were gathered At a farm in the country to hear As he stood with his cane atop an old wagon, The...

These classes have been held at auctioneer state conventions, national conventions, auction schools and many other venues. Speakers have...