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Points to consider when hiring an auctioneer
Important things you have to consider when choosing an auctioneer. Is this auctioneer available in the date range your working with? Although a good auctioneer can get a sale ready in a few weeks, auctions are often booked months in advance, some, as much as a year. Therefore, he may be busy in the date you need him. Let them know on the phone the time frame your looking at, it may save you and the auctioneer a wasted meeting. Do they do the kind of auction you want to run? Most auctioneers are flexible, but each has his/her forte. Mine is antiques/collectibles and estates. Some auctioneers do only heavy equipment etc. You get the idea, this can also be found out over the phone. When your calling an auction hall, if you reach anyone other than the auctioneer, ask when they can be reached. Unlike a lot of other businesses, there are not very many questions an auctioneer's help can answer for you with much accuracy. So you've decided to meet. If it's a big job and the auctioneer is late for the first meeting without a ROCK SOLID excuse, don't hire them. While this may sound overly harsh it is not at all. The most important talent an auctioneer needs to have is a sense of timing, it is the most crucial element to reading a crowd of buyers and reading a crowd of buyers is the auctioneers most important job. I've seen people auction off antiques that know nothing about antiques, yet they can get more money than the guy from the antiques road show because they know how to work a crowd to just the right tune. Of course it's better to have an auctioneer that knows the merchandise and can read a crowd. But I'll take a good sense of timing over anything. If they can't make it on time to the very first meeting, what does it say for their sense of timing? Late auctioneer = bad auctioneer.
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