Or have the auction at our place.

Auction Services
Once you sign an agreement with Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, all the details will be taken care of for you, allowing you to focus on your business. A team of Ritchie Bros. professionals goes to work preparing for auction day. Our professional auction services include:

• Evaluating your equipment and real estate
• Recommending refurbishment and repairs
• Advertising your items in agricultural journals and on the internet
• Sending out thousands of targeted auction brochures
• Preparing for the auction
• Conducting a world-class auction
• Post-auction details

Evaluating Your Equipment & Real Estate
In order to make the most appropriate selling recommendations for you, Ritchie Bros. will perform an overall evaluation of your equipment and real estate.

Having conducted more than 3,200 auctions over 40 years - and sold more than 240,000 items in 2006 alone - we have the expertise to provide accurate evaluations for anyone thinking of selling by auction.

For those major life and business decisions that require a complete valuation of your assets, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers offers a paid appraisal service to help provide solid financial direction to your decisions.

Refurbishing and Repairs
Our experience shows that the better your items look, the better they sell. To help achieve the best possible price for you, Ritchie Bros. often suggests refurbishing and repairs that should be done before the sale.

Unparalleled Marketing
Ritchie Bros. produces full color agricultural auction brochures, which are mailed out to tens of thousands of interested buyers from our customer database of over 400,000. In addition to direct brochure mailings, auction specific ads are placed in local and regional newspapers and magazines, on the radio and on our high traffic web site rbauction.com. The rbauction.com web site allows customers to search for equipment in upcoming auctions, find a complete and current auction calendar, review the last two years of auction results, among other convenient online services. On average, 24,000 people visit the Ritchie Bros. web site every week!

Pre-Auction Preparations
Prior to auction day your Ritchie Bros. representative will assist you in determining the best plan for displaying and organizing your equipment and property. Signs are placed to notify people of the event and direct traffic to the site. Parking, shuttle buses, catering, financing and transportation companies are organized to ensure that everything runs smoothly and professionally.

Auction Day
Ritchie Bros. plans and organizes the sale in a logical order. Experienced staff handles the on-site, computerized registration process. Fully licensed, professional auctioneers conduct the auction using our mobile auctioneers unit and sound system. These units will let everyone know where the action is, bringing the Ritchie Bros. auction experience to your location.

After the Auction
When you partner with Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, we take care of all the details. We help with all the equipment items - no matter the make, model, manufacturer, or age. No need to worry about collecting from multiple buyers or managing receivables. After the auction, we handle the collections, take care of sales tax issues, and pay out net proceeds.

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