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Finished fur is graded and lotted in like lots. (Example coon xx- large, coyote I and IIs, etc.) this happens on Friday and Saturday for a 1:00 pm Sunday auction. Unfinished(green) fur is put into trapper's lots Sunday morning. For some reason it looks like your fur was not wanted. Was any of it frozen? The WVTA wants all fur to sell as high as possible. It gives us a higher commission. Your fur coming from KY has nothing to do with the price. What time did you arrive in Glenville?

Hope they enjoyed the black eye that they earned.

You will have to explain that one to me.

the writing on the receipt seems odd, normally in a no sale situation, i mark each slot as n/s, or no sale. Not just broad spectrum. As a seller, your entitled to a detailed listing as to what sold and didnt...As an auction worker, everything is basically detailed, give or take. In my line of work, a receipt like that is absolutely unacceptable. I cant vouch for quality of goods sold, but the transfer paper receipt, and how it was listed, does make me unhappy. Fur or not, i work auctions for a living, and thats not professional, bad for my profession.

Never auctioned fur(other than coats and stoles) a day in my life, but ive been apart of auctioning everything else since i was 16... the book keeping looks kinda shady.

Lot 308 $25.00 minus 10% commission of $2.50 equals $22.50

My understanding is the green skins are sold as one lot, not graded or sorted by species.

You are correct.

Hello Jt, I had a very high member of the WV trappers association tell me it was because of Ky fur. I will not mention his name out of respect. My fur was not rotten or anything like that. I pull animals out of the traps and skin them the same day and throw them in the deep freezer. I have been doing this for a while. Besides Ky was underlined, why would that be?

My fur was not frozen, I thawed it out. If no one wanted my fur that's okay. Call me or email me and I could have picked it up and try and find another buyer. I have been paid decent money for my fur. I have got as much as 75.00 bucks out of one cat. Not to mention all of the other animals I have sold. I could have came up with the $2.50 commission if that was the problem.



Look at the other lots compared to mine. It looks like someone else took a bad hit also. Notice in my lot it states KY fur.

Thanks for all of the support everyone. I hope this will be a lesson to all of my fellow trappers.

SniperBBB were you one of the buyers there? How can you justify .60 cent a pelt? You have more replys on this thread than anyone else.

so were the cats green, or put up?

Looks like most of the green fur was low.

trapper123456,

The cats that sold were green, correct?

They were green hillbilly. I apologize if I accidentally incinuated that they were put up.

You got robbed . Heck if it was the beaver that pulled them down why didn't they just throw them in the dumpster?. Someone would be held responsible if it was me. Some sort of legal action would be my next course if the ARSE holes running that operation didn't make it right.

Hey I know what it was !!! Blame it on CALIPARI he had the gall to go over the border and put a butt whipping on huggy bear and his boys !!!!

March madness is here ................

Hey next time call me I'll give you double that and put them up myself !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heck I sold mine here in Columbia had 30 coons, 1 bobcat, 3 rats, 3 mink and 1 red fox and got $178 with no commission. Mink were green...

no, i kinda knew they werent, but when some folks say green, are lotted as such, it didnt make since.
again, ive only been in the auction business since i could drive. The logic proposed is terrible.

Dont know a thing about the local fur auctions, kinda bugs me i dont, since its what i do for a living.
I sold my fur to a local buyer, and in the case i shipped it off, i sent it to Don.

Does it really matter ? They stole them ........................

Yes I know it matters when they go on to the next step but geez !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no legal action that can be taken. There is nothing to be made right. The more money the fur brings, the more the association makes when prices are low. We sometimes lose money with building rental. I also take exception to the name calling of those of us who help run the association. How much do you do for your association?