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I find the lowest attended auctions are on nice sunny days, because the farmers have something else to do on those days, but cold or wet rainy days are the best attended simply because there isn't much else for them to do except sit around the house. Farmers are an entirly different crowd comapired to the kind of crowd household auctions draw, they know how to dress for any weather, and are out in it everyday, theres no calling in sick or vacations for them. Household auctions are the exact opposite, on a rainy day, those usually only draw a handful of people versus a full tent on a nice day. Guy up the road from me sold out about a year ago, stuff was all in pretty sorry shape and the sale bill looked pretty bad, 99% of the stuff was advertized as needing work, stuff was all beat, no maintenance done for years and years and the family who operated it had gone as long as they could until everything they owned was a piece of junk and wasn't operable, then they decided to have an auction and sell out. That junk brought a massive crowd, some driving 2 states over to attend and everything went for all it was worth. Obviously everyone thought that because everything was listed as needing work that it was going to go cheap and that wasn't the case at all. Same could go for this July 4th auction, but you'll never know unless you go.
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