[nfb-talk] Auctioneer

[d m gina]

That is good to know,
I did speak with Cindy this afternoon.
Lets just say the matter took place in March, where now in April she 
wants to do something about the problem.
She doesn't have a case at all.

Original message:
> Hello,

> There are blind folks that have trained for auctioneering, and have 
> been auctioneers as well.  As an amateur, I only have conducted 
> auctions as a hobby, and mostly just for NFB and some other charities. 
> I have met one blind woman who graduated from auctioneering school, and 
> was an auctioneer for a number of years, and seemingly was successful. 
> There is really no reason why a blind person can't be an auctioneer.  
> Spotters are used, just as sighted folks use them to make sure the 
> auctioneer registers the next bid. The only real difference is, that if 
> you don't require verbal bids, and just use written numbers, or some 
> other alternative method of getting the bids, the spotters become 
> needed to provide verbal recognition for each of them. Of course, just 
> as with any job, there are skeptics, and folks who just don't feel 
> comfortable using the skills of a blind person, so the blind person may 
> not necessarily get the opportunities of their sighted counter parts.

>  In a couple of instances, I did two or three years of the auctions, 
> and then the organizations decided to move on to get the help of a 
> professional auction agency, so I wasn't used further, but that's 
> understandable since the professional knows the inside ways of grouping 
> items, and just how to get the most money for the high value merchandise.


> Hope this helps a bit.

> /s/

> Bennett Prows

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> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 12:19 PM
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> Subject: [nfb-talk] Auctioneer

> Hi,
> We have a friend here in town who took training to become an auctioneer.
> Now she thinks she has discrimination.
> We wouldn't know, because we didn't follow her threw all of this.
> She isn't bad at all, just isn't as fast as we have heard from time to time.
> My question is this, are there any blind persons doing this kind of thing.
> How do they get around all of the items that they need to auction.
> We have no clue how to help her at all.
> We don't know if she has a certificate anything like that.
> She shared she would call and talk to us about it.
> We are letting her reach us, instead of us going to her.

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