I grew up Odessa MO,  but now live in Shawnee, KS.  I am a computer programmer  but I think I am and will always be that country boy from Odessa.  I have attended auctions all my life. When I was young I always tried to imitate the auctioneer. I guess it was something I always wanted to do. So in June of 2002, I went to Missouri Auction School.   In July of 2002 I started helping Ray Fizer in Odessa, MO and continue to do so.

When people find out that I’m an Auctioneer and that I go to a lot of auctions they usually give me a shopping list of things they need.  So I tried to keep an eye on upcoming auctions to let them know in advance.  But I was having a problem getting the most up to date sale bills because of my distance from Ray.  Since I am a programmer and spend a lot of time on a computer, the idea of suggesting to Ray to put his sale bills “on-line” was rambling in the back of my head.  Because if they were on-line I could pull up all the coming sales to show all these people, and even print one of the sale bills for them. 

One day I was talking to one of my “Dads”, I had many growing up, about the idea and he thought it was a good way for people to see what was going to be for sale.  He said there were other auctioneers putting their sale bills on-line, but unless you knew the auctioneer or his site it was hard to find.  The idea started to form, wouldn’t be great if there was one site you could go to that had all the auctions in the Kansas City area.  Where, if your auctioneer didn’t have a sale that day, maybe their was another close by that had things you were interested in.  Or, if you were looking for a particular item you could do a computer search of all upcoming auctions in Kansas City that might have what you need.  And like the song says “with a little help from my friends” www.auctioninkc.com was born.  I hope you enjoy this site and use it often. 

If you want or need to contact me, you can at webmaster@auctioninkc.com

Kurt Keim