BUXTON, N.D. -- There is more to an auctioneer's chant than you might think, 28-year auctioneering veteran Darrel Yoder says. Things like clarity, fill-in words and momentum all add up to that ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The rat-a-tat chant, delivered rhythmically with a booming voice, feeds the tension in the room and gets the adrenaline flowing.

The auctioneer chant is nothing short of an art form, pulling in the casual passerby and luring dedicated followers to each event. Scott Schuster's chant is a familiar one in the Grand Forks, N.D., ...

-[AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 7 [AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 700 and a half. [AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 1,300, [AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 1,300 [AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 14 [AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 14 you want ...

FARGO - Tony Heinze has perfected his quick-fire rhythmic chant over the past 47 years. The auctioneer picked up the skill, he said, because, “I was 21 years old, and I was tired of leaning on a ...

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa - If the walls could talk at the Best Western hotel, they couldn't get a word in edgewise. The World Wide College of Auctioneering is back in session. "Rubber baby buggy bumpers," the ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - An auction can be exciting, especially when you start listening to the auctioneer speak at a rapid rate and fire off price numbers. The auctioneer at this year’s Stock Show ...

Instead of nursery rhymes, Julia Sparks may have been lulled to sleep by the quick chant of an auctioneer calling for the highest bid. With professional and championship auctioneer parents, it was ...

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 ...

Hal McMillin knows his regular bidders and quickly learns about the new people at an event. “I love it when you have a lot of ...