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The Muster- Elliot Warrender: Auctioneering Guru In Waiting · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Hey, well, all right, sir, here we go there, and
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  Speaker 1: what are they going to give for? I'm at 25,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give 30 now. Five, another $ 40, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to make.
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  Speaker 2: It to 40 now. Welcome back to The Muster. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you've heard that song twice today. Now, of course, it
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  Speaker 2: is the intro music for our PGG Rights and Stock
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  Speaker 2: Sale report, but we are using it for Elliot Warrender.
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  Speaker 2: He is competing in the New Zealand Young Auctioneers competition
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  Speaker 2: next Tuesday up at Christchurch. It coincides with the Canterbury
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  Speaker 2: AMP show. He's a PGG Rights and Livestock agent based
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  Speaker 2: out of Winton. Elliot, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 3: How are you going, Andy? Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look, I appreciate your time on what is something
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  Speaker 2: pretty unique. The Young Auctioneer competition happening next week, it's
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a random one for a lot of people,
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  Speaker 2: but it's certainly an art form.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I don't really know. I'm not about it myself,
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  Speaker 3: but pretty much I think it's under the age of
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  Speaker 3: 29 or 30 and get up there and have a
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  Speaker 3: crack against other young auctioneers around the country. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How long is it since you had to do your
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  Speaker 2: first auction? What is the back story to this, Elliot?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I head down to the Lawnville sale yards and
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  Speaker 3: Charlton sale yards once every week. And I've always been
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  Speaker 3: intrigued about it, I guess, watching it and seeing how
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  Speaker 3: it works. And I pretty much just got chucked on
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  Speaker 3: the spot to sell an old ram down at Lawnville
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  Speaker 3: one day and the rest is history, really.
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  Speaker 2: It's an art form, though. It's something you just can't
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  Speaker 2: pick up. I've seen something online a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: ago over in the States, and it was like a
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  Speaker 2: school they had for auctioneers. Does that sound about right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there is a lot of training camps
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  Speaker 3: or whatever they do for it. But, yeah, I sort
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  Speaker 3: of just try to pick it up as I go
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  Speaker 3: down to the sale yards. We've got some pretty established
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  Speaker 3: auctioneers down there. They always tend to... give a hand
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  Speaker 3: and chuck some tips out. But, yeah, they just let
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  Speaker 3: you do it, really, and you're always picking up stuff
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  Speaker 3: as you go.
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  Speaker 2: Now, when you're doing the auctioneering and the likes, are
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  Speaker 2: you just having to think on the spot as to
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  Speaker 2: what to do, or does it come naturally?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still definitely thinking about what I have to
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  Speaker 3: do and what I've got to say and when's a
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  Speaker 3: good time to close the sale and how the bids
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  Speaker 3: are coming in. I'm still trying to pick up that knack, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: But every time I do it, I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 3: improving every time. So hopefully it's enough to give me
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  Speaker 3: a good crack up the road.
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  Speaker 2: So what is it you reckon, Elliot, that makes a
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  Speaker 2: good auctioneer from what you're doing and what you've seen?
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  Speaker 3: Well, some of the advice I've been given and what
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  Speaker 3: I've really taken on board is just just being clear
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  Speaker 3: and concise about what you're selling, the bidders understand where
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  Speaker 3: the bid is, what the money is, and yeah, pretty
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  Speaker 3: much just being really clear, really.
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  Speaker 2: So who encouraged you to go in for the New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand Young Auctioneers competition? Was there anybody as a mentor
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  Speaker 2: as such?
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  Speaker 3: No, not really. I've been doing it for not really
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  Speaker 3: that long, really, about four months or so, and I
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  Speaker 3: just got asked if I was interested in doing it
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  Speaker 3: and I'm always keen to give stuff a crack and
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  Speaker 3: yeah it's just another opportunity to have a go and
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  Speaker 3: get my name out there and meet some other auctioneers
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  Speaker 3: around the country really.
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  Speaker 2: You've only been doing it for four months?
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  Speaker 3: Nah yeah I haven't really been doing it that long
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  Speaker 3: really so it's a bit nerve wracking but yeah you
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  Speaker 3: know what I'll be keen just to get up there
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  Speaker 3: and give it a go, get the experience and I'll be.
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  Speaker 2: Better for it. So what were you doing before you
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  Speaker 2: were a livestock rep?
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  Speaker 3: I was sort of just floating around, to be fair.
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  Speaker 3: I was doing jobs here and there. I was a
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  Speaker 3: student for four years up in Dunedin, and now I'm here.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been a bit of an interesting journey, really.
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  Speaker 2: You're going into the unknown yourselves. I think all the
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  Speaker 2: other firms, though, they've got people involved as well. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just across the industry as such, is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, just across the industry. I see there's about four
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  Speaker 3: different companies who have young auctioneers in the comp. So
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  Speaker 3: we'll be going up against them.
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  Speaker 2: So it's pretty much a case of the unknown then,
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  Speaker 2: as you said before. It's like, what are they going
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  Speaker 2: to present? You've got no idea what you need to
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  Speaker 2: do on the day?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll have a rough idea. There's sort of a
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  Speaker 3: bit of an itinerary. So we're selling some prime lambs
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  Speaker 3: on the first day down at Canterbury Park there. And
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  Speaker 3: then on the Tuesday, we'll be selling prime cattle and So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: obviously the difference between that is we'll be selling the
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  Speaker 3: prime cattle in cents per kilo, which is all a
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  Speaker 3: big learning curve for me because down at Lawnville and Charlton,
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  Speaker 3: I primarily just sell a lot of the mutton and
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  Speaker 3: the prime lamb. So I've been doing a wee bit
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  Speaker 3: of practice in my own time, trying to get my
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  Speaker 3: head around that, and instead of saying $ 100, saying dollars,
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  Speaker 3: that sort of stuff. So, yeah, it's all just learning
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  Speaker 3: along the way, really.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the terminology CPK as opposed to schedule or prime market,
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  Speaker 2: it's a different thing altogether.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah. Yeah, and even just speaking in dollars compared
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  Speaker 3: to hundreds, I find it was a bit challenging at
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  Speaker 3: the start, but I'm thinking I'm starting to get my
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  Speaker 3: head around it.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you do to practice for this? Is
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  Speaker 2: there such a thing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think the best way to practice is
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  Speaker 3: just getting in there and doing it, like putting yourself
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  Speaker 3: out there and having a good grow and taking on
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  Speaker 3: feedback obviously you can always practice they say practice in
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  Speaker 3: your car and take bids on the power poles as
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  Speaker 3: you drive along the road that's a good way to
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  Speaker 3: get your head around a bit of timing and finding
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  Speaker 3: new filler words and stuff but definitely the best way
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  Speaker 3: is out there doing it with real bidders and real
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  Speaker 3: stock on the line yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So tomorrow at Charlton, you're going to kick Teagle off
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  Speaker 2: the rails and give it a crack, you reckon?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Teagle's pretty stern up there, so I think I
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  Speaker 3: might still have to buy my time for a few
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  Speaker 3: more years for that, but if he definitely gives me
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  Speaker 3: the nod, I'll jump up there and give it a
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  Speaker 3: good go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Teagle, he'll be one of the young bucks. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to give us a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: demo on the spot, do you, mate?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, just to save it. It'll be live on,
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  Speaker 3: but you'd have to come and tune in and Watch
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  Speaker 3: it yourself.
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  Speaker 2: So, OK, what are the details people need to know
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  Speaker 2: if they're up at Christchurch next week? What time does
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  Speaker 2: it get underway?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I believe the prime stock on the Tuesday, I
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  Speaker 3: think that kicks off at 1pm in Canterbury Park rink there,
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  Speaker 3: and it's live-streamed through Bitter, and, yeah, so that's pretty
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  Speaker 3: much the way it's going to go, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, good on you, Elliot. All the best for next week.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly a different kind of competition. The one that is
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  Speaker 2: very much quintessential Kiwi. Yeah, we'll see. We'll catch up
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  Speaker 2: with you next week, see how it all goes. All
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  Speaker 2: the best for the unknown.
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  Speaker 3: No, cheers for that, Andy. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, well, all right, sir, here we go there and...
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  Speaker 2: How cool a chant was that? All the best to
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  Speaker 2: Elliot next week as he goes up against the pick
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  Speaker 2: of the young auctioneers from around the country. That's us
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  Speaker 2: over in Dunworth. I'm Andy Muir. The must is brought
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  Speaker 2: Dyke to see you out on a Wednesday. Catch you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I have got to learn that auction cry. Gotta make
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  Speaker 1: my mark and be an auctioneer. $ 25 bidder now, $ 30, $ 30,
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  Speaker 1: will you give me 30? Make it 30 bidder, the bumble, $ 30,
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  Speaker 1: will you?