nine to ten hrs,its all done

Yes. They don't use the words" buy back". Just the truth" unsold". At this point I averaged "unsold".

Thanks. I'm not going to engage in any disagreements,I was just interested in comparing results for my own interests.

" all of that information",is irrelevant day of sale.Saga displayed updates on ranch but lacking on wild









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7 mink 270 rats 11 coon. $1,140.

My rats sold at $3.40 average with a high of $4.70. December- January rats. Thought I would do better. Sent some weasels along just for fun. They were short tails graded medium or small. The mediums were an even $2 each and the smalls $1.30.

I had red fox in 8 different lots and had a avg of 11.82 and 1 no sale
All graded central but lot 21034 graded eastern.

Gotta be kidding me lol...

5 left over coon from the freezer from last season...

9005 4X-3X SELECT A-C 9409196 1 $25.00 $25.00
9013 4X-3X I D 9409198 1 $16.00 $16.00
9017 4X-3X GD SLT C 9409076 1 $14.50 $14.50
9049 3X-2X GD SLT C 9409089 1 $9.00 $9.00
9056 3X-2X I-II C 9409170 1 $8.00 $8.00

Average: $14.50 Sold: 5

My fox average was 9 bucks. Shoulda trapped coons!

I tried watching the Auction last night but fell to sleep on the otters boring and poor marketing I thought. They need to hire some American Cowboy Auctioneers, have a big screen video set up with models showing the lots and some Vegas type show girls serving coffee and drinks with lots of smiles. Looks to me like they make around 20% the value of what they sale,they have the money to do something like this.

I'm with you catpincher. That sounds good and entertaining. And free Coors light for the buyers. Seems to work at local benefit auctions!

They looked like they ate a big turkey dinner and watched Curling before they had the Auction.

Catpincher, that's funny stuff right there.

Does anyone know how Fisher did? Were they mainly unsold?

I shoulda known better than to send a bunch of fox there..They dont grade well and fox alone (for me) grade much better at Nafa. Nafa has been rubbing me the wrong way lately with near 100% of my sales occurring Pt right after the auction...but it is what it is.

I find your ideas interesting but I would think they need a lot more then 20% to pull that off. Commission is typically 30-50% in stores lol

Who is this guy Dirt, never met him but I like him.
Well said Dirt

How did the coon do?

As a Veteran of 50 plus years marketing fur I would have to say in all honesty that neither NAFA or FHA actually give a rats arse about the North American Trapper Canadian or US I have used both houses since the early seventies and also have sold thousands of skins in New York when the Fur District was thriving and my evaluation of Both of these facilities is they don't put up fur properly! The Market is the Market and disputing prices levels is nonsense, the crux of the matter for us is where they put my skins! I know fur and I now fur well, and the put up and offering at each of the Major Houses is at best Sad and at worst criminal! Year after Year I try to Market goods in several different outlets for the simply fact that from time to time you can greatly benefit from a sudden Market swing whether your goods were graded properly or not! What I want is competent, skilled people with actual knowlage and skill lotting my goods, the price is inconsequential! The put up at both places today is a nightmare and that is the deal breaker!I hear the story every time I ask that prices are so low it makes no sense to fine grade articles BS!As a harvester I want my fur graded properly each species each time, I don't care if there is a dime difference in grade I want my skins graded right! Perhaps if the level of put up had not dropped in the last few years purchasers would be more willing to raise levels on grades that they know are clean, now they know they are buying a pendulum swing in each string, what is the incentive to compete! I don't know, perhaps I'm just a jaded, cranky old man who longs for days gone bye but something is not right here beyond our shrinking, volatile market!