Category: announcements
Fourth Wave auction software
Fourth Wave, LLC, a vendor of auction clerking and cashiering software, has apparently closed its doors. On May 13, we received an email from an auctioneer claiming that he had purchased the software and needed to contact Fourth Wave but was unable to do so. We noticed that the website, fourthwave.net, was indeed down and…
Traffas and Fine named national institute trustees
Here’s a recent press release from the Purple Wave blog. Though it doesn’t mention it in the article, the other new trustee with term expiring in 2013 is Michael Fine, CAI, AARE, executive vice president at Sheldon Good. MANHATTAN, Kan. (May 19, 2009) – Aaron Traffas has been named a trustee of the National Auctioneers…
US Senate designates April 18 National Auctioneers Day
Image via Wikipedia The National Auctioneers Association announced yesterday that Senate resolution 86 was passed on Tuesday. This resolution officially designates April 18, 2009, as National Auctioneers Day. Here’s the text of the bill from govtrack.us. SRES 86 ATS 111th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 86 Designating April 18, 2009, as ‘National Auctioneers Day’. March…
AuctioneerTech releases Internet clerking and bidding platform
Riding high on the recent success of its AuctioneerTweet sister-site, today AuctioneerTech released an open-source Internet-based clerking software and bidding system for auctioneers called AuctioneerTool. Based on common, open source web technologies PHP and MySQL, the client installs on any server with access to a database. The platform currently supports pre-auction bidding and Internet only…
Auctioneers report zero growth in 2008
Image by ArtemFinland via Flickr This press release from late February isn’t exactly exciting, but it isn’t exactly unexpected. While the auction industry, on a whole, hasn’t been hurt nearly as badly as other sectors of the economy, the tune we’ve been hearing from auctioneers everywhere has quite definitely waxed somber. Overland Park, Kan., February…