What do you do when you can't understand the auctioneer?

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I went to a sale today with the intention of buying a couple or three of either bred cows or 3 in 1s but I couldn't for the life of me understand the auctioneer. I thought maybe it was just me but there were several older gentleman setting beside me who eventually asked me if I could understand him.

He was a young guy and nearly swallowed the microphone when he was rattling like he was trying to show just how fast his cattle rattling was. One of the guys I told that I couldn't understand either, said that he thought it might be the speakers because they had been hanging on the wall there all of his life. He had to be over 70.

The stockyard buyers seemed to understand him fine. I refuse to bid on something that I don't know where I am in the bidding so never raised my hand. By the time they got to the culls, he had slowed down enough that I could understand him.

I wish they would put a digital board up with the bid but sometimes whoever is punching in the numbers is way behind the auctioneer. Maybe I'm just getting too old. Have you guys ever experienced this?
 
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kenny thomas said:
How many watched the video and can understand him?
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I could pretty well for just scrolling through and not really being familiar with him. Once I latched on to the price it was easier to hear the halfs. With some time, probably an hour or so, I think I'd be in the loop pretty well.

I have to say that his patois is a little repetitious and staccato, and not really enjoyable for me. But he definitely was more understandable than a lot of auctioneers I've heard.
 
I really like his style (Brian in video). Very clear where he's at IMO.

The sale in Mascot goes too dang fast for me to be buying much. They've already sold by the time weight comes across the screen. Buying cows, it's hard for me to pin the weight down oftentimes. I reckon that's why animals bring so well up there, the speed in which they sell?
 
I would think that the sellers would want more competition in the sale besides the packers. I know that I would. I very rarely buy animals at auction, I look for private treaty deals, but most are holding on to their breeding stock locally. I have one neighbor who sold quite a few in this sale, but they were not what I am interested in. He sold them because he was changing direction with his program.
 
Like Silver, took a minute to get his voice/cadence then pretty easy to hear it. We have an auctioneer that has competed several places, won some regionals, and he is pretty good to understand too. Couple at other sale barns not so good....
 
The things that really impress me about Bryan, besides the fact that he's great to work with , knows the cattle business, and instills confidence in the buyers. He is only one of two auctioneers that I know who can be in the middle of selling, a regular buyer or seller will walk in and sit down. Bryan never breaks stride but will say something like "Hey (call them by name) good to see you, boys there gonna get higher now or he brought the good ones here today " and be right back on the bid he left off at.
At fdr specials he'll sell for 4-5 hrs and sound just as smooth at the end as he did in the start.
 

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