You might have heard that Han Solo’s leather jacket sold at auction for $191,000, while J.K. Rowling’s writing chair went for a whopping $394,000. But you might not know what exactly goes on at the ...

Bill Haalstra is known for speaking quickly. The auctioneer and livestock trucker, who spends his time between the Ontario Livestock Exchange in St. Jacobs and David Carson Farms and Auction in Perth ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. The fast-talking style that auctioneers use has a name: They call it “the chant.” Or, in the words of Livestock Marketing Association world ...

In 2020 we made the switch to filming online auctions for “Machinery Pete TV.” Before COVID-19 we had never filmed an online auction. Because we couldn’t capture the auction chant and in-person ...

Missouri Rep. Billy Long left behind a career as an auctioneer when he took up his post in Congress in 2011. Nevertheless, old habits die hard. In the midst of a hearing with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey ...