Month: August 2009

  • NAALive finally comes to an end

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    Aaron Traffas
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    Long a thorn in the sides of other Internet bidding providers, the National Auctioneers Association‘s affinity relationship with Ableauctions.com is coming to an end. We’re excited about this development, as we feel it will foster a more open and competitive development of Internet bidding methods and techniques among all the vendors. Here’s the release. Overland…

  • Watch champion auctioneers on YouTube

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    Aaron Traffas
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    We follow @naaauctioneers on Twitter and so should you. Recent tweets from NAA have alerted us of today’s posting of video of the winners of the IAC to YouTube. Here are our 2009 IAC champions Kevin Borger and Terri Walker.

  • Strengths of Internet bidding

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    Aaron Traffas
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    Internet auctions have powerful advantages over live events. Trying to simulate live auctions on the Internet gives up those advantages and introduces the same limitations of live auctions.

  • Proxibid questions answered

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    Aaron Traffas
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    Image via CrunchBase Our post on Wednesday described an announcement by Proxibid of their forthcoming embedding bidding service. This service will allow auctioneers to seamlessly embed Proxibid’s systems into the auctioneers’ web pages. In Wednesday’s post, we posed five questions we felt were important to ask of Proxibid and other providers who are looking to…

  • Media Convert is a free and easy format changing service

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    Aaron Traffas
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    As we generate more video here at AuctioneerTech, we find ourselves becoming more and more familiar with format types. One of the challenges we faced with the creation of the Auction Video Podcast was getting the video into a format compatible with the iPod. This challenge, and many others, were immediately overcome when we came…