Folks,
Idaho Trappers Association Glenns Ferry sale is quickly approaching on January 17th-19th. The fur sale is an hour from my house and items need to be all shipped directly to my house. (Rusty Kramer 246B South Highway 46 Fairfield, ID 83327) I stay in a camper right at the fairgrounds. Every year some folks wait until the last second to mail stuff to the sale and when it arrives the morning of the sale I always get angry trappers when I explain I can't get their fur into the sale. Fur needs to get to me by Wednesday January 15th at the latest. Shipping seems slow as ever so get stuff shipped ASAP.
Shipping is expensive, I know this, and I have no control of it. I get UPS, Fedex and USPS all delivered to my house. Squash fur into a box or Fur Harvester bag and ship whatever way is the cheapest. Please put a note in the box with your personal info and your trapping or fur buying license number and inventory of what's in your box so we can compare. Every year we get a box with scuffed up return label and no note inside and I have no way of knowing how to mail you your check.
Rules: commission is the same as last year and is 7% for mailed in fur. There is no minimums allowed on shipped in fur, it is just too hard to coordinate. If you have someone that will be at the sale dealing with your fur I will allow it. We also require that you are a Idaho Trappers Association member and we can suck those fees right out of your fur check. Checks will be mailed one week after the sale with a detailed receipt with how much your fur brought, please be patient. Every year I get folks wanting to know what their fur brought 5 minutes after bids are read and I am putting out multiple fires.
Furs wanted: We will sell anything you ship us but I will tell you that you will probably be upside down on muskrats, beaver, coon, coyotes and mink after you figure your shipping and commission. I have 25+ buyers that will be at the sale and most items will be more competitive than you are seeing in the country. You can check our previous years fur sale results on our website. I am getting calls looking for all types of pelts including coon and coyote but again every year I get folks screaming at me for prices they received. I can't predict prices all I can do is put on a big sale and get lots of buyers there. I am getting active calls on the following: color phase coyotes, heavy high line coyotes, pretty backed bobcats, pretty bellied bobcats, fisher, marten, weasel (all color phases), color phase coons, lynx, wolverine, spotted skunk, striped skunk, heavy badger, wolves, cougars, bears, ringtail cats, kit fox, gray fox, heavy red fox, cross/silver fox, and any species of squirrel (put up like marten, no tailbone left in). All raw skulls have value but common raw skulls are cheap, looking for less common raw skulls and prices are still pretty nice (spotted skunk, otter, lynx, bobcat, badger, turtle, fisher, ect). We do sell antlers, mounts, clean skulls and tanned fur but sell at your own risk. Sometimes they sell substantially higher than market value but sometimes things go cheap. As always call, text, email, FB message or message on here but I don't get on here much.
Thanks
Rusty Kramer
Idaho Trappers Association President
208-870-3217
idahotrapguy@hotmail.com
