Auctioneers use a variety of platforms to host their own websites, provide for online bidding, and/or to disseminate a variety of content....

At the 2022 National Auctioneers Association (NAA) International Auctioneer Championship (IAC) held Friday, July 29 in San Diego,...

Auctioneers often take absentee bids or allow bidders to bid online where they are privy to the bidder’s maximum bid. Our question today...

I’ve repeatedly held that state and federal legislatures (and relatedly governors/presidents) aren’t terribly good at writing law, which...

We’ve noted that auctioneers cannot disclaim expressed warranties, and shouldn’t disclaim implied warranties, but many mistakenly...

Let’s see … an auctioneer is selling some real property at auction. He advertises that this subject property is about 5 acres (+/-) with...

Auctioneers often ask if there is any “proof” absolute auctions produce the highest prices for sellers. While there isn’t a consensus of...

We ask a somewhat rhetorical question this morning … what is “scheduled maintenance?” Of course, it’s two things: “Scheduled” and...

Our question today is: “Would an auctioneer accept a seller’s property for auction and sell it absolute if the seller requested such?” ...

I have noted that Daniel P. West has linked to my blog once if not more times and I appreciate that, and I have linked to his blog in...

With more and more shipping of auction purchases, auctioneers occasionally discover that buyers will report they never received their...

Many auctioneers have told me that their favorite type of “with reserve” auction is a seller-confirmation auction — a right to accept or...

Do we as auctioneers have to treat all bidders to the same terms and conditions — in other words, equal footing — and are those terms and...

As more auctioneers are selling online, and consumer expectations now include shipping even in many live auction events, auctioneers must...

With recent changes to 26 U.S. Code § 6050W lowering the threshold for transaction reporting requirements from $20,000 to $600 for...

It’s supposed to be easy … and most of the time it is. However, things happen: The Internet goes down, the online platform goes down,...

I’ve said it, primarily because I had heard other auctioneers say it when I attended auctions as an adolescent. For this writing, we’re...

Auctioneers like having a lot of discretion. Steve Proffitt held auctioneers should have little or no discretion and I tend to agree: ...

If I have used a guiding principle in my business as well as writings on this platform, I would say it comes down to two such thoughts:...

One of the first auctions I worked in Columbus, Ohio was a personal property auction conducted by Jack B. Smith, Auctioneer. It was a...