Scott Ford teeters on a ladder in a crowd four people deep. He adjusts his white cowboy hat and shifts his weight from one boot to the other, waiting as a Maytag washer and dryer are wheeled through ...

The auctioneer chant is nothing short of an art form, pulling in the casual passerby and luring dedicated followers to each event. Scott Schuster's chant is a familiar one in the Grand Forks, N.D., ...