The publication
Lot and Listing is a reference on how second-hand goods reach buyers. It covers the choice between a marketplace listing, an auction consignment, an outright sale and a private transaction, and it follows that choice through to the money arriving. how the selling channels compare is where that sequence begins.
This domain, and who published here before
This domain previously hosted Skip McGrath's Auction Seller's Resource, a long running publication for online sellers. Lot and Listing is a separate publication and is not affiliated with him or with that work. Where his article URLs carried lasting reference value they have been kept at their original addresses with new writing on the same subjects, and the rest now redirect to the closest equivalent here.
How this is written
Articles are published under the masthead without a byline. That is the ordinary practice of trade and reference publications, and it is honest: inventing an author with credentials nobody holds would be a fabrication, and borrowing a real person's name would be worse.
Every figure that appears traces to a document that was downloaded, read and dated. Fee schedules and tax thresholds move, so a figure here is presented as what a named body published on a stated date rather than as a standing fact. Where something cannot be verified, the method for finding it is described instead of a number being guessed.
What this publication does not do
It does not value objects, buy them, sell them, or act for anybody in a transaction. It has no salerooms, no specialists and no stock. It does not give tax advice, and the sections that touch on tax say so and point at the authorities that publish the rules.
There is no advertising, no sponsored placement and no affiliate arrangement. There is also no contact address: this publication takes no correspondence, which is stated plainly rather than hidden behind a form that goes nowhere. Anyone who needs an answer about a specific object needs somebody qualified to look at it, and choosing a sale channel is the nearest thing here to a starting point.