Mike Brandly Auctions Reviews

I have attended about a dozen times from about 2 hours away and have always been treated well by the staff and other buyers. They offer just about everything at auction at one time or another, so if you watch their website, you'll find what you are after.

User's recommendation: Arrive early to get good parking and enjoy some good food from the onsite vendor.

Called Mr. Brandly today out the blue and with no problem, received the help I needed for my situation and gave me both sides of the coin of my idea along with other useful options and helpful tips to help me run a smooth auction for my event!!!

have been to many auctions and figured I would give this one a try, since I hadn’t been here before. Plus, there were a few items I was interested in. Arrived at auction facility. Couldn’t even enter because there were cars everywhere and NO where to park. One reason they couldn’t fit anyone else in their parking lot was because whoever plowed their lot did a terrible job! This only left about 40 open parking spaces. They were trying to park cars in snow banks. They were completely rude about the parking and were then trying to triple park if you didn’t want to park in the snow bank. I drove almost an hour and a half just to get to this auction! Do yourself a favor. DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME HERE! Very upset and will NOT return!

I find this one of the worst auction houses to sell your products at. They are extremely rude and, they even throw your stuff away without asking. Seller's and buyer looking to buy or sell I would avoid this auction house. A couple of things I have noticed is when they are selling your stuff, they are really uneducated on what it is they are selling. Meaning the buyer gets good buy, but I believe as auctioneers they should have some idea of what it is they are selling. Also as a seller they tell you what will sell and what will not sell. Now you would think this would be a nice feature to have. Not when they try to tell you things will not sell that actually do sell. Worst auction house ever.

I have been attending and buying at auctions for years and find this auction house one of the last truly nice and professional companies in the Midwest. They have helped thousands and thousands of people over the years and sure there will always be some folks who do not understand how auctions work. They are in the business to make as most money as they can so they get more commission and are not a charity organization. Use any other local auctioneer and see how great Mike Brandly auctions are for sellers and buyers. They do not rip off anyone and I have been going to auctions for 40 years around the country.

They do a wonderful job! Lisa is the nicest and kindhearted lady I've ever met.

Lisa. Is a *** who doesn't know how to treat customers.

I have been selling off items from our estate (we are only 50 yrs old, husband passed away from an brain injury almost 3 years ago.) We custom built our dream home on 2-1/2 acres in 2006. After my husband passed away unexpectedly, after just getting let go from a corporate career of over 17 years, I needed to re-evaluate my future and I realize that I can't continue with the dream world we had created. I sold all of his hot rod collection, zero turn mower, coin collections, many major items that I wouldn't have trusted to anyone to do for me. I kept a lot of items from our 2,700+ sq ft home in storage while I temporarily moved to a rental property while I was redirecting my life. I have a young son (13yr old now) and virtually no family, all parents deceased and we both are only children to our parents. I think I have done a good job of downsizing and starting a new life so far on my own given my circumstances. I have used or sold many appliances, household goods, tools, etc. I do have a couple of large storage units left that I am unable to use in my newest home and I have been researching how to get rid of what is left of my former life. All items have been professionally moved and stored in climate controlled storage and are newer, gently used items, many new still in the box even. I was asking Lisa how to have an auction of these items so that I can make a little money off the remaining items and quit paying storage on items that I am ready to let go and move on. She took offense to how I worded my question, I am not sure exactly what I said but I was questioning the $100 and hour fee for guys to move my stuff to the auction site + 35% commission on all sales. I know how much my stuff is worth but at an absolute auction if someone offers a $1 and nobody else bids on it because it isn't something they are looking for then I just payed $100.35 for someone to buy my $50 (minimum) craftsman workbench for $1. I was only asking how I can help them make money and make a little to show for all of my items that I still have. I thought that she would be glad that I had such a potential small gold mine that she would try to help me see how this auction would be a good idea and everything could happen rather quickly. But she took offense to my questions and huffed and grunted and told me they " are in the business to make money, not make me money." And she said she was offended by my comments on the quality of items that I had seen for sale the previous night. I was mearly trying give her an idea that my stuff had been in storage for about a year now but it wasn't the typical condition of the items that I saw NOT being bid on in last night's auction. I tried to ask her nicely if someone had actually paid them $100/hr + comm to have all that "junk" auctioned. I guess my wording struck her wrong, to say the least. She got really loud and when I asked her how we could help each other make some money, she told me "WE are not social services" and that I need to find another auctioneer. Boy, I hit a nerve somehow. I will be glad to just keep on selling my own stuff and I might consider speaking to another auctioneer. I have been doing just fine without them so far, I was just looking to make the process a little easier/quicker. I may just call Volunteers of America and have them take whatever they want. I'll be damned if I pay her to insult me.