I published this blog on June 6, 2018 about the auction industry losing bidders due to some illegal/unethical practices: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/how-the-auction-industry-lost-at-least-one-bidder/ …
Often perception is more important than reality; auctions in the United States are no exception. Thus, our question today is, …
A/B testing is a useful tool to compare two different ways of doing otherwise the same thing … to see …
We recently wrote about auction “jargon” and how to make people more familiar with all of it. Here’s that recent …
This auction is absolute … we are charging a buyer’s premium … this property has a reserve; the list goes …
Fair housing laws generally apply to advertisements in the newspaper, online and even on yard signs. As such, auctioneers advertising …
It’s selling without reserve and we have bids … How do we know that? Because it says “without reserve” clearly …
We auctioneers have been told to leave out (or not emphasize) the word “auction” in our auction advertising. The reason …
It’s not often that I can disclose specifics from court cases in which we’re involved. However, with permission in this …
The future of the MLS? The Multiple Listing Service (MLS) most real estate practitioners use? Yes, the question is: What …
Buyers at auction want to know lots of things such as the number of bedrooms, annual taxes, the horsepower of …
We regularly keep an eye on online auction platforms — particularly when they lie and/or if they seem to be …
I was the auctioneer for an event in Chicago and had a bid of $270 on one lot up for …
I’m one of only a few people around the United States who has the immense responsibility to teach auctioneers how …
Following a benefit auction the other day I joined a few of the staff for dinner and conversation. One such …
Marsha L. Richins of the University of Missouri wrote about our title in her paper, “When Wanting Is Better Than …
There are auction calendars — where the public can — and does — go to find auctions and property selling …
Is buying a car, plane, house or other property once owned by a celebrity a good investment? That is our …
We’ve discussed “cut bids” and “refusing bids” and the like before. So, here’s the bottom line of sorts. As an …
We have been discussing “cut bids” (most notably here: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/as-the-auctioneer-do-you-have-to-take-a-cut-bid/) and a few states in the United States have enacted …
