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Auctions
I don't know if they're still around, The Missouri School of Auctioneering advertised in national magazines. You could even get a student loan to go there. We used to drink at a bar across the street and on nice days they had the classes in the parking lot. So we'd watch and laugh as they were shown how to reach that hand out to the crowd.
Not only did they learn THE CHANT, a lot of it is the hand gestures.
If you want to sell something you have to pump the crowd.
Friend works at an auction house. You can get great bargains, but you have you make sure you pay attention. It's too damn easy to let the auctioneer get you bidding more than you intended. Just for a pair of $10 cowboy boots I wanted for my GF, the crowd wasn't responding so the auctioneer threw in 3 truckloads of clothes. Ended up paying $50 + gas to get everything home, but there was a fake mink coat in there worth an easy $500.
RULE #1 never go to an auction drunk.
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