The Auction House

It's an Auction facility, with an owner who appears very arrogant, yet allows his employees to be lazy, talk about him behind his back, and generally disobey his edicts.

It's a monster eating it's own tail.

So far all they do is complain endlessly about lot's not selling. They admittedly allow people to set reserves on their items that are too high. They have a low penalty for doing this. Of course they're going to have problems in a muddled economy! The first thing people tighten up on is excessive buying. Meanwhile consignors just don't get that what once sold for $1000's might nowadays only be selling for hundreds. That these items are in fact commodities that go up and down in value.

They have already shown consignors firmly set at a certain price, the items not selling, re-auctioning the items in the next sale, getting half their original reserve, and being satisfied. So, basically a wasted week! Add to this the fact the owner disdains modern, and loves antique and I have basically summed up what you're going to see, episode, after episode.