BidWrangler

10/13/2026

Congratulations Joe R. Pyle Complete Auction & Realty Service! What a milestone!

A HUGE thank you to all of the bidders that have participated in our auctions over the years. Today we have surpassed 100,000 unique registered users of our bidding platform, hosted by bidwrangler, which launched 6 years ago. We have bidders from all over the world!

09/18/2026

A new episode of the No Reserve Podcast just dropped!

Thomas Blackmon Jr. of Blackmon Auctions joins Tim to talk about his family's 88-year run in the auction business and what led him to sell to Ritchie Bros this spring. He gets into the decision-making process, what's changed since the sale, and why he's still calling auctions himself.

Listen now: https://www.noreservepodcast.com/inside-the-sale-of-blackmon-auctions-with-thomas-blackmon-jr/

08/10/2026

A new episode of the No Reserve Podcast just dropped! Tim recently sat down with Mike "McGavel" Jones, owner of the Auction Academy Network (America's Auction Academy, Worldwide College of Auctioneering, and Nashville Auction School).

Mike walks through his career, from an auction gig his junior year of high school to liquidating hundreds of Western Auto and Montgomery Ward stores, over a decade running the auction division at United Country Real Estate, and building out his own network of schools. He and Tim also get into where auction education is headed, including his hybrid model mixing in-person training with online instruction.

Listen now:

In this episode of the No Reserve Podcast, host Tim Peters sits down with Mike "McGavel" Jones. Mike is the owner and driving force behind the Auction Academy Netwo…

07/20/2026

Our team had an amazing week in San Antonio at the National Auction Association's Conference & Show. There's nothing better than getting to spend time with clients in person!

06/29/2026

It's hard to believe we're only two weeks away from the National Auction Association's Conference & Show in San Antonio! This is one of our favorite weeks of the year, and it also marks 12 straight years of exhibiting with the NAA at this event.

If you're also attending, let us know in the comments!

06/23/2026

A new episode of the No Reserve Podcast just dropped!

Tim recently sat down with John John Genovese of Malama Auctions. John John runs his business from Kauai, the smallest of Hawaii's four main islands. John John and his dad started the company 13 years ago, and their first auction was made up of stuff they found for free on Craigslist and the side of the road.

John John discusses why he went online only and the pushback he got for it, how island geography affects everything from pricing to which sales are even worth taking, the collaborated auction model that keeps his team small, and the new equipment brand he started this year. He's also honest about why he's building the kind of business that gives him his time back instead of chasing growth.

Listen now:

John John Genovese of Malama Auctions joins host Tim Peters for this episode of the No Reserve Podcast. John John shares how he and his dad co-founded the company o…

06/04/2026

Cataloging an auction by hand can eat up hours you don't have. Our built-in AI cataloging tools are now live, and they do the heavy lifting for you. Upload your photos, and get titles and descriptions written for you so you can finish a catalog in a fraction of the time. And the best part? It's already part of the BidWrangler platform. No new logins, no extra software.

Want to see it in action? Book a quick demo and we'll walk you through it: https://call.bidwrangler.com/

05/15/2026

Thrive 2026 Recap

90 clients traveled from across the US and Canada to spend three days in Harrisonburg with us. These are busy people running serious auction businesses, and they chose to show up, learn, and pour into each other. We don't take that lightly.

The conversations, the sessions, the late nights, the ideas people are heading home with... this is why we do it. BidWrangler exists to help auctioneers build better businesses, and events like this remind us that the "how" is just as much about community as it is about software.

To everyone who made the trip: thank you.

04/08/2026

We're hosting BidWrangler Thrive, our first full-client conference, in our hometown of Harrisonburg, VA, from May 11-14. If you're on the fence about joining us, this one's for you.

John Nicholls of Nicholls Auction Marketing Group has been a BidWrangler client since the very beginning, and he recorded a quick video sharing why he's excited about the conference.

His perspective: you'll learn as much from the people sitting at the table with you as you will from any speaker. The conversations, the shared strategies, the real talk from people running auction companies just like yours ... that's what Thrive is built for.

Sign up at https://www.bidwranglerthrive.com/. Registration closes Friday, April 10th. We'd love to see you there!

02/17/2026

BidWrangler is proud to be a sponsor at the National Auction Association’s Digital Marketing Summit in Kansas City. Not only do we love this event for its informative sessions, but it’s always great getting to spend time with our clients in person.