RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - An auction can be exciting, especially when you start listening to the auctioneer speak at a rapid ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — As a successful auctioneer, Trisha Brauer says her craft is much more than mastering the ability to speak quickly. “You walk into any room and you say you're an auctioneer, and ...

Bid-a-dolla-buy-a-dolla-would-a-could-a-bid-a-dolla-buy-a-dolla . . . Cliff Shuler is proud that he cries for a living. Shuler stands more than 6 feet tall, wears python skin boots and loves to go ...

Auctioneer Doug Sinclair calls live auctions for Goodwill of Central Virginia every week. His company, Chesterfield County-based Sinclair & Associates, works on more than 200 Goodwill live auctions a ...

(CBS 5) -- When they're taking bids, auctioneers talk faster than most people can think. In this Good Question: What does it take to become a professional auctioneer? ANSWER: According to professional ...

His tongue is a propeller, coaxing bids in a blur of rapid-fire syllables befuddling to the untrained ear. At the Illinois State Fair, where hundreds of livestock are put on the block every day, the ...

Maybe the secret to being a good auctioneer comes in those all-too-fleeting moments of silence. Chuck Bradley, who was named this year's Grand Champion Auctioneer by the Alabama Auctioneers ...

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