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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
An auction is the process of buying and selling things by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder. An auction is a technique for determining the value of a commodity that has an undetermined price. Auctions can be with reserve or minimum, or without minimums, or absolute or no reserve.There is some lowest amount of bid or reserve price in reserve auctions. If the bidding does not reach the minimum sale is impossible. The sale is guaranteed in both absolute and no reserve auctions, with only the price left that is to be determined. Auctions are publicly seen in various contexts and almost all the things can be sold at auction. Some typical auction arenas include the following: the antique business, where besides being an opportunity for trade they also serve as social occasions and entertainment in the sale of collectibles such as stamps, coins, classic cars, fine art, and luxury real estate in the sale of all types of real property including residential and commercial real estate, farms, vacant lots and land for the sale of second-hand goods of all kinds, particularly house clearances and online auctions in commodities auctions, like the fish wholesale auctions in thoroughbred horseracing, where yearling horses are commonly auctioned off. Examples of this type of auction include sales of businesses spectrum auctions, where companies acquire licenses for using in the areas of the electromagnetic spectrum for communications timber auctions, in which companies purchase licenses to log on government land electricity auctions, in which large-scale generators and consumers of electricity bid on generating contracts environmental auctions. Also companies bid for licenses to stay away from being required to diminish their environmental impact debt auctions, in which governments sell debt instruments, such as bonds, to investors. The auction is usually potted and the uniform price remunerated by the investors is typically the best non-winning bid. Almost in all cases, investors can also place so called non-competitive bids which point out an interest to purchase the debt instrument at the resulting price, whatever it may be. Auction catalogs are printed regularly and are also disseminated before auctions of rare and collectible items; these catalogs may have very elaborate works, with significant details about the items being auctioned. Auctioneers are usually trained in the legal and practical aspects of conducting auctions. Some jurisdictions also require auctioneers to be licensed as well as bonded. Types of Auction - Large composite : Tend to have more than 100 lots. Expect well over 300 people to attend and the venue to be held in a large hotel or conference centre. Large composite auctions are likely to be run by a single auction house.
- Medium composite : Have between 5 to 100 lots and will typically draw between 200 to 500 people, most likely in a hotel or conference centre.
- Small composite : Offer between 2 to 5 lots and will attract up to 5 bidders. The likely venue is likely to be somewhere likes a pub, restaurant, church or small hotel.
posted by property auctioneers @ 11:20 PM
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