The National Auctioneers Association (NAA) recently surveyed their membership and found that 70.4% of members use a third-party vendor to...

Auctioneers and their sellers occasionally encounter issues with buyers. Mostly these issues involve (personal property) possession...

We’ve not only written about how auctions are collaborative in nature, but that auctioneers and sellers really only need the highest...

Steve Proffitt wrote in 2007 that there were at least three warranties made in auctions, as provided for in the [Uniform] commercial code....

We’ve written that you as an auctioneer should have an “order of sale” and of course, most auctioneers do. We’ve also written that once...

We previously wrote about Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers and Auctioneers, Inc. v. Leach, 844 S.E.2d 120 (W.Va. 2020) the Court held in...

I think I’ve seen almost every rule an auctioneer has for having (and/or not disclosing) the reserve price — including “sellers might or...

When I was attending auction school, we would go out at night to various local auction houses to practice our bid calling and stage...

Some auctioneers are telling me that if they disclose the reserve on a property, bidders won’t bid beyond the reserve. I don’t believe...

There’s nothing quite like bid calling in front of a nice crowd. Nothing quite matches watching people respond to my personality moving...

Could happy buyers mean happy sellers? Not “happy” that they got a good deal necessarily, but happy with the process (and the property)...

We have concluded that the more we can do for the bidders/buyers — to an extent — the more bidders/buyers we’ll have. As a result, our...

Correct, you as the auctioneer don’t want to be responsible for any of that — primarily because much (if not all) of that is out of your...

Auctioneers are certainly advised to secure an attorney for any legal advice. Yet, the advice that any certain action/plan is permitted...

I’ll continue to ask this when I hear anything like, “I don’t know how we’re going to keep bidders 6′ apart, and insist they all …” If...

So let’s say an absolute auction (of one property) is scheduled and only one bidder shows up; does the auctioneer open the auction? ...

Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Phillips, and others) are selling online. However, just as we’ve held over the years, live auctions produce more...

First, “essential” is generally considered “absolutely necessary and/or extremely important.” So is any auction extremely important or...

Let’s say Lauren here is looking at her phone and sees that she won all 17 items she bid on for exactly her maximum bid amount. So, what...

So, game on? I would submit, not quite yet. Even if you as an auctioneer feel it’s safe to be in crowds without any social distancing...