I could be wrong, but I suspect the practice of an auction house adding a buyer's charge onto the hammer prices of an auction is probably about 2000 years old.
625 AD: Yes, you just bought two lambs for six bushels of hay . . . and now please give something to the auctioneer for making the sale happen.
Last edited by Snapolit1; 09-21-2022 at 01:20 PM.
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