I was at one auction where the auctioneer had any pre-bids written down in a sealed envelope. He would announce before each item he had a pre-bid and put the envelope in plain sight. He then auctioned the item off. He then opened the pre-bid. If the pre-bid was higher then they got the item. I kind of like how he did it.
Now days with the Internet and cell phones you can't tell who is bidding. You just have to have a high limit and go to it.
A bad auctioneer can really cost the seller big money if the auctioneer does the sale order wrong. I was at a friend's sale last winter. He went with the cheapest auctioneer he could find. The guy usually sold house hold stuff. The day of the sale had terrible weather but there was a large crowd to start the sale. The auctioneer messed around on hay rack items until late afternoon. Then he started on the line of late model high priced equipment. I know of several pieces that the seller lost thousands of dollars on as guys had left the sale. Two brothers had driven down for the Twins Cities and had to leave to get home for milking. They told me they would have gone to $150,000 on the guys combine. It only sold for $125,000. It might have brought a good bit more if it had sold earlier. He could have junked the hay rack stuff and made more money.
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