Re: NAFA NFS Checks
[Re: gibb]
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10/05/19 01:00 AM
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The devil is in the details, no? And I am indeed surprised re the borrowing to cover payments.
you can vote your way into socialism, but you will have to shoot your way out.
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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10/05/19 02:40 AM
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If you want to get technical, some shippers only pay a 9% commission.
Borrowing money from a bank to pay shippers is nothing new. Been happening for years and years and years. I see what you are saying., if the bank pulls the plug, game over?
Who is John Galt?
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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10/05/19 10:48 AM
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Catcollector - it seems to me that you don’t really want an answer. You just want to argue and get folks riled up. I sure I know who you are in real life..........
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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10/05/19 10:51 AM
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If you want to get technical, some shippers only pay a 9% commission.
Borrowing money from a bank to pay shippers is nothing new. Been happening for years and years and years. I see what you are saying., if the bank pulls the plug, game over? Yes.
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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10/05/19 11:06 AM
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livestock auctions are regulated by the Packers and Stockyards Act protecting sellers aka p&s
we should start a F&S Furs and skunks
The only place you find free cheese is in a mousetrap !
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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10/05/19 11:07 AM
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I did not know that buyers at sale, don't pay for all the goods an only partial payment, nafa finances the rest ? I never did understand all the buyers transactions an oversea stuff, I only up on seller or shipper and an then I don't know alot, I pay 9 per cent commision as a shipper, there could be more stuff going on then knowen , with ranch fur trouble
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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10/05/19 11:47 AM
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I thought the buyer condition of sale changes for every sale? Like the 0 down free storage sale?
And who can forget, the no limit sales?
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Who is John Galt?
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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10/05/19 12:17 PM
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Buyer side commissions don't change?
Who is John Galt?
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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Wonder how much is bought by speculaters without actual orders, an keep in storage until later date with hopes of higher prices. Or how much is in storage by speculaters
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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Borrowing money from a bank to pay shippers is nothing new. Been happening for years and years and years. Centuries. At every level. When markets are good, the large local buyers are operating on borrowed money. They pay up front then wait to get their return HOPEFULLY at a profit. It is speculative in nature (anything in the fur business large scale is considered highly speculative) and the money rates reflect that. I realize that at current prices that a buyer could accumulate a large collection backed by a social security check, but that isn't always the case.lol. The large suppliers of any part of the industry need credit to finance what they think they will need for business and then hope that business comes. If not their investment may set for years awaiting a return. Boxes of traps, baits, cage wire, feed, etc. Sometimes in desperation, hope, blind faith, stupidity, excitement or? they will extend credit to an entity (i.e. a new to the business lure maker with a hot product), hoping it will produce a return in sales to reward them. There have been several people/businesses all but disappear in the last few years because their hopeful speculation didn't pay off. People/businesses with good products. When NAFA came into existence they bought/accumulated some of the assets of the old, original HBC to which they claim ancestry. This would be the Canada and New York operations, as HBC was a global, multi-faceted company with separate fur divisions in several locations. I suppose if you are using the same stapler and same logo you can make the claim you're the same, but that doesn't make it the "same business." A recent example is Redfield: Redfield-Oregon is NOT the same as Redfield-Denver by any measure. Moot point. When NAFA formed they were heavily dependent on the wild fur trade. The first few years they lost millions in the market. Skin prices were in free-fall, markets were closing, fashions were changing, speculators were fleeing the fire, investors/financiers were calling in debt, banks were saying "no more." From the other direction, mink ranches went out of business by the hundreds, trappers hung up their traps, fox "ranches" closed by the thousands. $1.50 coon and $20 ranch mink averages. In this mess, NAFA to their credit tried to build a business. While many were looking for a way out, NAFA was looking for markets, for example the Greece-to-Russia connection, China & some that didn't pan out. G was in China a few days ago; NAFA was there 30 years ago. At startup, NAFA (called HBC North America or something like that in the beginning) was the smallest of the "big" auctions. This would be around 1989 or 1990 or so. They immediately began trying to expand their offerings (and therefore market-share and income) by appealing to ranchers. Simple business math, not a love/hate thing. As an actual business entity, NAFA has existed for about 30 years. Everything then and now has been leveraged. It is the same across the industry. I have done business with NAFA, I have not done business with NAFA. I hope NAFA can weather the storm.
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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10/05/19 12:47 PM
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FYI Hudson Bay Company still exist as a multinational company.
Who is John Galt?
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Re: NAFA NFS Checks
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10/10/19 08:35 PM
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Okay So my son has to wait until the end of the month to get his measly $11.03 check for the best red fox he caught. The 18 others are still NS from 2017 season. Then on top of it the bank charged his account $15 for the retuned check fee. Is NAFA going to reimburse him his $15? Bad enough they took out the commissions and all the drumming feeds for all of the fox and dont forget the magazine which is not worth $1 let alone what they charge.
Do something worthwhile, take a kid trapping
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