N.Y. General Business Law § 24: Mock auction

§ 24. Mock auction. A person who buys or sells, or pretends to buy or

sell, any goods, wares, or merchandise, or any species of property

except ships, vessels, or real or leasehold estate, exposed for sale by

auction, if an actual sale, purchase, and change of ownership therein

does not thereupon take place, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by

imprisonment for thirty days, or by fine not exceeding one hundred

dollars or both.

A person who obtains money or property from another, or obtains the

signature of another to any writing, the false making of which would be

forgery, by means of any false or fraudulent sale of property or

pretended property by auction, or by any of the practices known as mock

auctions, is guilty of a misdemeanor; and in addition thereto he

forfeits any license he may hold to act as an auctioneer, and is forever

disqualified from receiving a license to act as an auctioneer in this

state.