Re: Giving Away Fur
[Re: Jtrapper]
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This thread is about promoting fur but your idea is a great way to promote trapping, my hats off to you for that idea.
If you're looking at this thread as promoting fur, versus promoting trapping, I think you're wrong. This thread is primarily about promoting trapping, not fur. As was mentioned here before, handing out fur to homeless could possibly de-promote fur. But that's not what this was ever about. It was about promoting TRAPPING through handing out fur. To give the catchers of the fur a good name. TRAPPERS donated their hard work to those in need. This is ALL about promoting trapping.
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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I'm in as far as donating some fur I will be getting some back late summer
And I can paint some traps pink
I'm sorry my plate is too full to help in the organizing of this but will keep my ears/eyes on the progress And will plan on sending some tanned fur
I really hope this goes somewhere
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If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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05/13/16 09:05 AM
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Great Idea.
But the first step Is to see if any or all of the tanneries would step up and tan your fur for free. With out free tanning your going to fail.
Maybe NAFA or FHA would donate fur to the cause? There already giving It away.
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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I personally feel that giving away fur pieces is counter productive for fur producers. On this forum and others we read countless threads and posts about those getting a free deal or something for nothing and we are advocating that with our fur? If we are going to give fur away why not to 4 H groups, scout troops and or wildlife and biology class students as either tanned fur kits or raw and let them tan the furs as part of a project. It is the younger generation that may become fur buyers in the future those in the USA that are earning monies have already made their decisions on what is valuable to them and fur has not been part of the spending they have chosen. Bryce That is a good idea. But why can't your idea work along with giving a warm fur hat to a cancer survivor with a bald head? And, I do not believe it is counter productive for producers to give things away. Free samples are a time tested method for producers to make consumers aware of new products and ideas. I make a distinction between people who are truly in need and people who abuse the good intentions of others.
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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I'm sure it's been mentioned but military families stationed in cold weather regions in us and internationally
We can never do enough for them as far as I am concerned
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If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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Re: Giving Away Fur
[Re: Phil Nichols]
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05/14/16 07:52 AM
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those in the USA that are earning monies have already made their decisions on what is valuable to them and fur has not been part of the spending they have chosen.
Mainly due to it not being available to them, line up the isle's in the dept. stores this fall with garments made with REAL fur trim not the fake stuff and see what happens. That 'style' has been in for several years now but sadly the general public has no idea what real fur looks like or feels like because it's never offered to them on a wide scale basis. Due mainly to large corporation's making the decision not to offend anyone and have protestor's outside their stores during the holiday season. The anti fur movement won that battle and fur producer's have suffered ever since.
Since no one is going to promote fur this idea would also help in that regard. Without a demand for fur trapping is dead!
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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Has nothing to do with capitalism, has to do with DO YOU WANT the headache that will come from selling certain products. Why go through all that misery and bad publicity when you can just offer fake junk and customer's won't know the difference?
Have your wife a fur coat made and watch the reaction of her friends when they see and feel real fur for the first time!
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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Jackie hit the nail on the head. Fur is pretty much dead in this country because most retailers don't want 100 crazed and violent protesters outside their doors running off their customers.
I haven't seen Democrats this mad at Republicans since we ended slavery.
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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Native American reservations in cold climates might need some hats and mitts.
We need a PR specialist to volunteer to maximize the mileage from an effort like this. Another good idea. The PR specialists are to be found in the state trappers associations.
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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The PR specialists are to be found in the state trappers associations
With a 10 percent at best participation rate in the trapping association's I don't think they are a good bet for PR work! If you can't even sell a membership to your association how well are you going to sell fur products to a skeptical public?
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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I know this is a little off topic from the original intent of the post, but I will ask it here anyways. I hear all the time how NAFA is promoting wild fur. Has NAFA ever approached a "STAR" and tried to hire them to endorse fur and fur products. I would think if there was enough money involved somebody would be interested. Nike does it all the time with their shoes as do other companys. I can't stand Justin Bieber but teenage girls go nuts over him. If he was wearing a raccoon vest, etc. I could see a big market possibility because all the little girls would want something similar. Does anyone know if NAFA has ever approached anyone about endorsing fur products?
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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NAFA don't make enough off of wild fur to invest that kind of money.
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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Hater a group called FICA use to do just that, I know they loaned fur coats/garments to J. Lo and Joan Rivers, one such garment appeared on the cover of a teeny bopper magazine J. Lo was featured on. Haven't kept up with FICA through the years so not sure if they are still around and doing such or not. They were heavily funded by the fur garment groups and organizations.
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Re: Giving Away Fur
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[quote=chief2babies]Native American reservations in cold climates might need some hats and mitts.
We need a PR specialist to volunteer to maximize the mileage from an effort like this. Another good idea. The PR specialists are to be found in the state trappers associations. [/quote I hate to be that guy ...but , PR goldmine !!
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