2006 New York Code - 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.