#bid calling

NAA Community Conversation: Contract Professionals

Annually, National Auctioneers Week is the week leading up to the first Saturday in May – National Auctioneers Day. National Auctioneers Association members take part in a week-long promotional campaign that highlights the auction method of marketing.

This 2020 National Auctioneers Week is April 27 – May 2, culminating with National Auctioneers Day on Saturday, May 2, 2020. The auction industry…

I can have a live auction now?

With the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many states in the United States have essentially prohibited any live auctions. At this time, some states are starting to open their economies to more enterprises including live auctions.

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 and other precautions, your…

I’m listing to an auctioneer on the witness stand (and thus all public information.) The subject of his testimony was his actions as the lead auctioneer (bid caller.)

He informed the court that bidders are always trying to, “Mess with him …” and he recounted his retaliation for each of their material misbehaviors:

If they collude, I run the bid on them.

If he retracts his bid, I won’t let him…

For auctioneers who bid call for a living, there are risks — including losing work as a bid caller altogether.

Our focus here is specific risks to your vocal cord health. The more important your bid calling is to your livelihood, the more you need to take precautions and seek medical advice when problems or issues persist.

Here’s ten of the most common vocal fold (vocal cord) medical conditions…

Maybe auctioneers shouldn’t lie … at all?

At auction, sellers or those acting on behalf of the seller can make (place/offer) bids to the auctioneer. Does current law allow auctioneers to lie about those (or other) bids?

Except for recent legislation in California, a bid by or for the seller can be portrayed as someone else’s bid — namely a disinterested bidder with the genuine intent to purchase. As we have repeatedly held, such clearly…

Auctioneers and misinformation …

There is more and more information on the Internet … every day the number of users increases and the data created each day is currently measured in quintillions of bytes.

What that doesn’t mean is that all of that data is factual; nor does it mean that with more users the data generally becomes more truthful. In fact, here in 2019 the amount of misinformation seems to be greater than ever before.

Quips, remarks, stories while bid calling …

Auctioneers are some of the best at telling stories. In fact, we wrote about that here: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/auctioneer-stories/.

Our treatise today involves quips, remarks, stores and the like whilebid calling. It is widely viewed that auctions are different then they were 30-40-50 years ago. For example, in 1977 an auction was as much a social event as an…

Should auctioneers warm up their voices prior?

We have previously written about vocal issues for auctioneers including:

Auctioneer voice care: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/auctioneer-voice-care/

Insurance for your bid calling: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/insurance-for-your-bid-calling-ability/

Six vocal cord myths: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/six-auctioneer-voc…