Yesterday, the news was released that Proxibid has appointed former eBay and PayPal executive Ryan Downs a new President of the company. An interview with Downs has already been posted by Ina Steiner from auctionbytes.com. The press release is below.
Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that Ryan Downs has [...]
Proxibid launches the Auction Payment Network to help auctioneers securely handle auction transactions.
Read the rest of this entry »maxanetusers.com provides community support for users of MaxaNet.
Read the rest of this entry »I started this weblog in September, 2008. For nearly three years, now, it’s been a labor of love. In 2009, I started using the more editorial third person and have been doing so ever since.
As it becomes apparent that I’m unable to devote as much time as I would like to writing about auctions and technology, I’m [...]
Due to a schedule conflict, the MaxaNet users group meeting announced Monday has been moved to 1 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, July 15. For more information about this meeting, see the original post.
Read the rest of this entry »Update: the meeting time has been moved to 1 p.m. on Thursday.
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of the MaxaNet content management system and Internet bidding system for auctioneers. We’re excited that our friend Will McLemore is organizing a users group meeting to coincide with NAA Conference and Show in Greensboro this Thursday.
GREENSBORO, NC [...]
A new auction calendar, gimmeauctions.com, offers social networking alongside auction calendar listings in hopes to build a community.
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The Google IO conference began today, and several announcements were made this morning.
Google has open-sourced VP8 video codec and rolled it into a projected called WebM. This change will help browsers finally standardize on an open video format to replace Flash video on the web.
Google Wave is now available to everyone, including [...]
eBay’s recently granted patent regarding Internet auctions could be cause for concern for auctioneers.
Read the rest of this entry »Two of the most prestigious honors given during the annual CAI designation classes are the Rose Award and Pat Massart Award.
The NAA presented the awards to Auctioneers Buddy Lee and Ruthie Taylor, respectively, during the opening session of CAI 2010 on March 21. CAI classes kicked off this week on the campus of Indiana University [...]
A summary of the Industry Insights netcast series presented by the National Auctioneers Association, as well as details for tomorrow’s presentation entitled “Internet Auctions”.
Read the rest of this entry »A new site launches today and aims to use the auction method of marketing to allow users to sell news-related video to interested parties. We think it’s an interesting use of competitive bidding, and worth a look. Here’s the release.
January 18th, 2010 – New Orleans, LA – Bideo.com is a revolutionary online media exchange where [...]
We’re putting the final wraps on the 2010 KAA Convention at the Wichita Airport Hilton.
Thursday night featured a meet-and-greet honoring past presidents.
Lynn Langvardt was the winner of the Kansas Livestock Bid-call Contest held in El Dorado on Thursday night. Last year’s livestock champion, Charlie Cummings, won the KAA Bid-call Contest this year at the [...]
Duluth, MN – A Stillwater man is the 2010 Minnesota State Champion Auctioneer. At the 22nd annual auctioneer championship held in Duluth, Matthew Schultz won the competition in which 27 auctioneers competed.
The contest was held last night during the Minnesota State Auctioneers Association Conference and Show. Schultz has been part of the auction [...]
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For those of you who have followed us from the beginning, you’ll recall that the first version of the site included a subscription feature that allowed users to receive short, plain-text email updates each time we posted new articles. Well, somewhere between our initial home at Lunarpages, our subsequent moves to Slicehost and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Popular Internet auction calendar Global Auction Guide recently soft-launched a completely redesigned website. The most exciting feature is the enhanced, personalized auctioneer pages which now include video, blog entries and social media updates.
Global Auction Guide is one of several top-tier players in the Internet auction calendar space. Where Global Auction Guide excels is in the syndication of [...]
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Last month, Ohio auctioneer Mike Brandly began writing an auction blog with a strong focus on auction law. It’s one of those rare blogs from an auctioneer that is focused at the industry and not on the auctioneer’s own practice.
Writing nearly every day, Mike’s amassed a solid content base that makes for [...]
This news could be fairly substantial to the auction industry. It seems that Auction Zip has merged with Artfact. Auction Zip is currently crushing it in the auction calendar space, and, depending on how they implement this Auctionzip Live bidding platform, they could be poised to pick up a very large user base of traditional [...]
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Wednesday’s post showed how a simple extension called Weave can synchronize your Firefox passwords, bookmarks and other preferences between computers. That’s all fine and good, but what happens when you are installing a fresh copy of Firefox and want to install all your favorite add-ons and plugins? Do you write down your list [...]
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We’ve been following the new features and website from Proxibid for the last few weeks. Today they’ve launched the new website and announced that you can start reserving the embedded bidding solution. Here’s the release.
Omaha, NE – September 22, 2009 – Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced [...]
The top five places for the 2009 – 2010 Kansas Auctioneers Association bid call contest are as follows.
Charly Cummings, Yates Center, KS
Megan McCurdy, Wichita, KS
Justin Schultis, Fairbury, NE
Lance Fullerton, El Dorado, KS
Aaron Traffas, Sharon, KS
The other participants are listed below in appearance order.
Eric Bloomquist, Assaria, KS
Lance Kinderknecht, Almena, KS
Thomas Lindsay, Jr, Shawnee, KS
Kevin Ediger, [...]
In July, Internet bidding provider LiveAuctioneers announced the release of an iPhone application that allows its users to view auction inventories as well as to participate in auctions by placing pre-auction Internet bids.
Yesterday, LiveAuctioneers announced the release of an application for BlackBerry devices that has similar functionality but, unlike the iPhone application, is free to [...]
Long a thorn in the sides of other Internet bidding providers, the National Auctioneers Association‘s affinity relationship with Ableauctions.com is coming to an end. We’re excited about this development, as we feel it will foster a more open and competitive development of Internet bidding methods and techniques among all the vendors. Here’s the release.
Overland [...]
We follow @naaauctioneers on Twitter and so should you. Recent tweets from NAA have alerted us of today’s posting of video of the winners of the IAC to YouTube. Here are our 2009 IAC champions Kevin Borger and Terri Walker.
Read the rest of this entry »One of the most popular feature requests made of Internet bidding providers is that they offer a non-branded, embedded solution for auctioneers who want the ability to host bidding on their sites rather than having to push people to a third-party website.
Today, in an email to their auctioneer clients, Proxibid announced that they were working [...]
Perhaps one of the most valuable benefits to being a member in the National Auctioneers Association is the networking and community of friends and neighbors in the profession. The ability to bounce ideas off of someone doing the same type of business as you are is invaluable.
Not every auctioneer knows the right auctioneer to ask [...]
We took some time during the 60th International Auctioneers Conference and Show in Kansas City to roam the trade show floor to talk with the exhibiting vendors about their products and services. We didn’t make it to every booth, as some had already packed up by the time we started on Saturday, but we saw [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Overland Park, Kan.July 18, 2009 – The National Auctioneers Association (NAA) inducted three new members into its Hall of Fame: Marvin E. Alexander, CAI, of Martin, Tenn.; Larry Latham, CAI, of Las Vegas, Nev.; and Stephen D. Lewis of Morehead, Ky. The three inductees were honored at the 60th annual International Auctioneers Conference and Show [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Overland Park, Kan.July 18, 2009 – From the pulpit to the auction podium, Kansas Auctioneer Kevin Borger commands attention when in front of an audience. On Friday evening at the 60th International Auctioneers Conference and Show in Overland Park, Kan., Kevin gained the attention and respect of auctioneers across the country and earned the coveted [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Overland Park, Kan., July 18, 2009 – The walls of Walker Auctions in Memphis, Tennessee are adorned with three 2nd runner-up and three 1st runner-up IAC Women’s Division trophies. Terri Walker, CAI, BAS, CES earned the centerpiece to her collection by winning the 2009 IAC Women’s Division Championship trophy this evening in Overland Park, Kan. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Overland Park, Kan., July 18, 2009 – Looking back, it wasn’t that long ago that Justin Schultis, 18, of Fairbury, Nebraska sold his first item at auction, a wash tub. At the age of 13, Justin knew his future profession early on. The roots of auctioneering run deep in the Schultis family tree. Justin’s family [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Overland Park, Kan. July 17, 2009 – Eighty-eight auctioneers from across the United States competed today in the preliminary rounds of the 21st International Auctioneer Championship competition. The competition is sponsored by the National Auctioneers Association and occurs during the 60th annual International Auctioneers Conference and Show. The IAC finals will begin at 7 p.m. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »This release came across the wire. It’s our position that the best ringperson stays out of the way and simply reports bids to the auctioneer in the case that the auctioneer doesn’t see the bids. We recognize that there are some parts of the country where it’s expected that the ringstaff be more affable and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »July 15, 2009, Overland Park, Kan. – Three young auctioneers were selected to advance to the finals of the National Auctioneer Association’s third annual International Junior Auctioneers Championship (IJAC) competition. The three finalists will compete for the coveted title at 8 a.m., Friday, July 17 at the Overland Park Convention Center [...]
Read the rest of this entry »We’re settled in at the Overland Park Convention Center, ready to officially kick off the festivities tonight. The unofficial kick-off held last night with the Aaron Traffas Band at the Mayo Auction Center went very well. We’re going to drop a little of the formalities over the next few days with perhaps more frequent updates, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Yesterday, Google finally announced what many were expecting – a full-on operating system to compete directly with Microsoft Windows. What is somewhat less expected is that they are using their Chrome product instead of their Android platform as many anticipated.
The Chrome OS will be the Chrome browser on top of a Linux core. The operating [...]
We’re finally back from the combine after a month away from auctions, technology and blogging, and we bring late-breaking news of an event that can’t be missed.
Robert Mayo of Mayo Auction and Realty has graciously offered to host a social event the day before NAA Conference and Show at his auction center in Kansas City. [...]
Brandon Harker from Auction Flex was a guest on Auction Podcast Episode 9. Auction Flex has just launched a new blog and Brandon has written a great article about the importance of clerking auctions. He gives some great tips for using bidder numbers that have the same number of digits. Here’s a sample from the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Chris Longly from the National Auctioneers Association talks about his role as Deputy Executive Directory and promotes the 60th International Auctioneers Conference and show.
You’re listening to the Auction Podcast. Today is Wednesday, 27th May, 2009. auctioneertech.com – technology, auction and auctioneers, auction tech for the auction industry.
Hello and welcome to the 18th episode of the [...]
Fourth Wave, LLC, a vendor of auction clerking and cashiering software, has apparently closed its doors.
On May 13, we received an email from an auctioneer claiming that he had purchased the software and needed to contact Fourth Wave but was unable to do so. We noticed that the website, fourthwave.net, was indeed down and we [...]
Here’s a recent press release from the Purple Wave blog. Though it doesn’t mention it in the article, the other new trustee with term expiring in 2013 is Michael Fine, CAI, AARE, executive vice president at Sheldon Good.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (May 19, 2009) – Aaron Traffas has been named a trustee of the National Auctioneers Association [...]
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The National Auctioneers Association announced yesterday that Senate resolution 86 was passed on Tuesday. This resolution officially designates April 18, 2009, as National Auctioneers Day. Here’s the text of the bill from govtrack.us.
SRES 86 ATS
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. RES. 86
Designating April 18, 2009, as ‘National Auctioneers Day’.
March 31, 2009
Committee discharged; considered and agreed to
RESOLUTION
Designating [...]
Riding high on the recent success of its AuctioneerTweet sister-site, today AuctioneerTech released an open-source Internet-based clerking software and bidding system for auctioneers called AuctioneerTool.
Based on common, open source web technologies PHP and MySQL, the client installs on any server with access to a database. The platform currently supports pre-auction bidding and Internet only events, [...]
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This press release from late February isn’t exactly exciting, but it isn’t exactly unexpected. While the auction industry, on a whole, hasn’t been hurt nearly as badly as other sectors of the economy, the tune we’ve been hearing from auctioneers everywhere has quite definitely waxed somber.
Overland Park, Kan., February 20, 2009 [...]
As we were searching for the links for our coverage of the KAA Winter Convention, we were surprised by the almost-complete lack of designations listed with each auctioneer on his or her respective staff pages. While it’s possible that all of the auctioneers for whom we were searching simply didn’t have any designations, we [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Just a quick update for our RSS friends. Pictures have been added to Sunday’s post about the 2009 Kansas Auctioneers Association Winter Convention. We found a new picture gallery system that integrates with Google Picasa and uses a little Lightbox JavaScript system for some effects. Tell us what you think!
Read the rest of this entry »In our minds, one of the best of the many benefits of being a member of the National Auctioneers Association is the Auctioneer magazine, a monthly periodical that is filled with information about auctions and auctioneers. Articles from NAA officers keep members briefed on the association. Articles from guest writers and other regular columns keep [...]
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We start the new year with an obituary for eBay Live Auctions, not to be confused with eBay Live!, the eBay convention for buyers and sellers held regularly in cities around the country. As of the first of the year, the website ebayliveauctions.com now redirects to www.ebay.com.
eBay Live Auctions was the division of [...]
It’s time for a little year-end housekeeping. With all of the top lists being created regarding the previous year, we couldn’t help but join in with a top list and a review of everything we’ve done so far. Here are our top six posts that we like.
ATS designation – Auction Technology Specialist for auctioneers
Today is [...]
The Auction Podcast has reached its first milestone. We’ve recently rocketed past 1000 listens to the series. Indeed, according to WordPress plugin Podpress, each of the first five episodes has over 100 listens.
When we first started the podcast, the goal was a weekly release. We have some exciting plans for the podcast series in 2009, [...]
