Live Mesa Auction: An Unfortunate Trend

This article will discuss corporations in sourcing their live Mesa auctions and how this will affect live Mesa auction companies

. In the 1980's every major corporation had its own training department, printing department, corporate cafeteria, advertising department and personnel department. Then a new trend came along in the 1990's when outside firms began showing corporations how they could save money by outsourcing education, presswork, food services, marketing and staff hiring.

Many corporations jumped on the "outsourcing" bandwagon and proved through their bottom line results that outsourcing was a profitable venture. It is true today that several small firms are completely dependent on large corporations to hand over their previous in sourced work.

In this time of popularity for corporate outsourcing, it causes concern that several corporations have begun to in source their auctions. Motorola, Boeing and Honeywell just opened up their own auction divisions to sell off surplus property and Intel Corporation is following in their footsteps. Government agencies are beginning to not only in source their auctions, but to also open up retail shops to sell surplus items.

San Diego, California has a retail store that sells stolen and confiscated police property. And other organizations are looking to these industry leaders to investigate the possibility of opening their own auction departments to conduct auctions in-house instead of hiring outside live Mesa auction firms.

I spoke with a representative from one of these large corporations that preferred both he and his firm remain unnamed in this article. I asked him why his company had made a decision to open up their own auction division and quit working with outside live Mesa auction company contractors.

His answer was simple - "We are concerned with theft. We have tracked like items we were sending to a live Mesa auction company against other company's sales prices, and they just weren't adding up. It appeared that over the course of one fiscal quarter we had lost as much as $235,000 in potential revenue. That was enough for management to open a small division of five people to include an auctioneer, two advertising people and two administrators to address our auctions on an internal basis." He went on to say, "We have a fiduciary responsibility to our stockholders to produce the most revenue for the surplus property we are disposing of."

This corporate representative asked to remain unnamed because of a pending lawsuit the corporation has against the auction company. For those of you who are regular readers of this column you are aware that I have raised many issues about the integrity of the live Mesa auction industry. What this disturbing trend for auction in sourcing tells us is that there was reason to be concerned about the reputation of our auction industry. If it is true that these corporations were victims of auction theft, their divisions will be successful and the auction work will stay in-house of the corporations.

That means it will be almost impossible for the independent live Mesa auction firm to conduct any of these corporate auctions. Unless we begin policing our industry more and more avenues for live Mesa auction company income will dwindle away. We can no longer turn our eyes from the corruption that runs rampant through the live Mesa auction industry. If you are not part of your state's auctioneers association, now is the time to get involved and if you are a member, it is time that you insist on your association policing the unscrupulous live Mesa auction companies.

by: Deb Weidenhamer

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