The Complete Idiot's Guide to Live Auctions: A Must-Have Resource for Buyers and Sellers-from Opening Bid to Final Sale

by The National Auctioneers Assoc

Overview

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A $227.5 billion enterprise around the world, live auctions feature everything from cars to homes, fine art to coal. The only book of its kind, this guide will show how lucrative, fast-paced, and exciting this business is. It covers rules, lingo, setting up an auction, hiring professional auctioneers, and how the most popular auctions work.

• 24% of U.S. consumers, or around 50 million people, spend an average of four hours at live auctions each year
• Expert author: the National Association for Auctioneers
• Detailed run-down of every aspect of live auctions
• Resource section with auction house listings

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440636332
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Series:	COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE Series
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

The National Auctioneers Association is a membership-based organization that was founded in 1949 to cater to the interests of auction professionals throughout the United States and Canada, and even overseas. Darron J. Meares is the chair and John S. Nicholls is the president.