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

As Mr. Sharif knew well, in American Contract Bridge rules, bids by players which are deemed inadvertent (a slip of the mind, slip of the...

Our question today regards an auctioneer/seller denying another auctioneer — or anyone else — from attending their auction. And the...

Some might say (including Shannon Hunter, Auctioneer) that these are the two most material issues in the auction industry today. In...

While we’ve received 100’s of questions, there are five we tend to get most often. Here we answer those top five with basic information...

Those acting as auctioneers, or otherwise engaged in the auction business, are required to be licensed in some states in the United...

Bill’s father Gene had served in the Unites States Air Force from 1947 until his retirement in 1991 and had flown these 19B’s (UH-19’s)...

Federal Firearms License. So what does it mean to be engaged in the business of selling firearms at auction? The Bureau of Alcohol,...

We continue to analyze prudent behavior for auctioneers when selling firearms at auction. In this treatise, we address specifically an...

More specifically, as we have written before, the non-FFL auctioneer can sell firearms in basically one situation: The sole circumstance...

Today’s subject involves serial numbers on those firearms and similar devices. In regard to firearms and serial numbers, we first...

Our topic today references in particular 18 U.S.C. § 923 (a) ATF Rul. 96-2 which says that even auctioneers who are FFLs can sell...

Let me begin with this: generally this type of thought process is not a bad thing — “Is there a better way to do this?” “Wonder if I can...

Recently, an auction of the Lincoln Park Plaza (Michigan) apparently did not result in a completed sale. Adam Miller, Lincoln Park’s...

It is not unusual for an auctioneer association executive director, officer and/or director to receive a communication from a consumer...

The auctioneer leaped on a chair, and bold and loud and clear. He poured his cataract of words, just like an auctioneer. An auction sale...

Our topic today specifically regards bankruptcy auctions, but applies equally and reasonably to any type of auction anywhere in the...

Sometimes auctioneers charge a fee to register for an auction. For instance, to obtain a bid card, the bidder must provide...

I stay at many hotels throughout the year (although I have never stayed at the Black Bear Hotel in Allentown, Pennsylvania.) In doing so,...

At the 2017 National Auctioneers Association (NAA) International Auctioneer Championship (IAC) recently held Friday, July 14 in Columbus,...