most auctioneers work together or used too ! think we are forgetting the fun factor in kittycats , we are not all robots and a bit of competion is healthy for all business , one reason ive stopped auctioning , its to mechanical so to speak ,, us older auctioneers would IM one another if we ran over alittle which can happen sometimes a bit longer is needed to bring that crowd into the bidding ,, the fun factor !! and we would be at one anothers auctions in support regardless of what sim we worked on , somewhere along the line this was sadly lost
just my view of things