ADDITIONAL GFW PICK UP ROUTES

ADDITIONAL GFW PICK UP ROUTES:

To further service our trappers in the states we are not running routes, we are thinking to run pick up routes once or twice a year. The way we are thinking is to meet trappers at stops and instead of purchasing fur on the spot you will deliver us your fur in bags/boxes and we will tag every bag/box to which trapper it belongs. Once we get back to our plant with the fur we will grade each trappers fur individually and send out a check as soon as we grade it.
The states we are strongly considering are Ohio, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Central Indiana, New Jersey.

Please give us your feedback on these states and any other states that would be worth coming to.

Also, shipping your dry fur to us is always an option!

As always, thanks for all your support and we look forward to expanding to help you market you fur in the best way!

good to hear

South Kansas would be nice.

ill throw a PA vote

They have picked up in Georgia before and paid on the spot. Why the change to pay later.

ROFLMAO. Dropping off may have worked for Nafa but I don't see it working out to well for the rat wagon.

Good old Missouri along I-44 would be awesome

A eastern KS route would be nice. Be a good time to hit Western misery as well

Why not indiana

Is it pickup and pay later to save time over picking up, grading and cutting checks? Will you be accepting green fur and animals in the round on these routes?

I haven't decided what I will do this year. Have not even started trapping yet . Only thing open is coyotes and it is still a bit early. Do you call/email with an offer before sending a check? I understand you have a return policy? How does that work? Put shipping cost on a credit card? Do you charge any handling fees or just postage? I am glad to hear of another selling option.

I am also thinking about the Missouri trappers assoc sale. Are you going to have a buyer there?

Yep I would like to see something in Pa

Central Indiana here

I would defiantly like to see something in Ohio. I know last year has some pick up locations but either way would be great

Ohio vote.

I vote for either Bristol, VA or Bristol, TN so you can cover two states with one stop...

I'm game for a PA route!

(bet you'd have a lot of interest!)

Probably time constraints. In just yotes alone this will be 5 to 6 times more fur to handle!!! Thats how many more nafa sold than fha last year.

Another reason might be, they can throw anyone in a truck to go pick up fur. They dont have to be a grader or really have any knowledge of fur. They just pick up throw in the truck and go.

Always bums me out there's no south east mo routes or anythk g closer than way north

Southeast Nebraska or northeast kansas would be good.

Central or southern KY along I65 would be ideal, Bowling Green maybe? Would be able to get a decent section of Ky and only 20 minutes from the Tennessee folks

Another Pa. vote. You’ll get my fur for sure.

Chattanooga area would be good for me.

Westren Kansas coons are worth taking a look at, and our coyotes are top notch

pa here. I'm not far from ohio.

There’s a GFW buyer in SE Nebraska already

A stop in Oklahoma would be good. NE area, Tulsa maybe......………...

N.W. Pa. Would be nice.

I'm in Central Indiana and would seriously consider a GFW pickup as an option to sell. Was thinking about that anyway but having a truck come through would make it even more appealing.

I can tell you there is not many local fur buyers in this area so you wouldn't have much competition in this locale.

how about the eastern shore of maryland I would give them a try.

Another vote for Pennsylvania here, it looks like we have the majority on this thread.

Another Vote for Pa from me!

Western Kansas please.

Central PA for sure. Carlisle has I-81, 83, and 76 junctions and plenty of parking lots. I assume you would take frozen fur?

Another vote for PA here

I emailed GFW last spring about adding Pa to their route. To my surprise, I got a call from them and had a nice conversation with them. They were contemplating making some stops in Pa. as early as last spring, well before the NAFA drama started.

East Central Minnesota. Hinckley is a HUGE area to draw from and a large lot at Tobies to park.

Thanks for giving Virginia Trappers another option. I hope it works out well for all concerned. This is the most recent storm...not the last.

i'd let Beav park the big white truck at the fur shop and fix him a good country dinner.dang guy's withering away to nothing.

Eastern KS and Western misery route would be great

Love the idea and like having options on selling. Northern NJ or eastern PA gets my vote

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West Virginia! An East-West Interstate and a North-South Interstate. Shouldn't be to hard to plan a route through the Mountain State.

I 2nd the vote for Bristol

The West TN stops will not be too far from you

You better be selling your coon on groneys first trip through. Because after that It's going to get ugly.

Is that going to be the old market change excuse, or I filled my existing orders and don't really need coon any more?

Keep up the good work!

That too.

GFW holds a awesome hand right now. I am going with them. Their stop is only 20 minutes away from me.

I will sell them some fur.

They have been running a route in northern Indiana.

I vote for some Ohio stops. Maybe right through the middle of the State on I-70????

I know they made a brief post but I am a little confused. Are they going to operate auction house style? Pick up your fur and you get what you get as far as monetary return after grading?

Here is another for PA. How about Stops right through the middle all the way across.

A vote for Central Indiana!

We need a stop in McAlisterville, PA.

Do they have any paved roads in potter co?

one,but only 6 months outta the year.

Wow, some you guys sound like giddy state and local governments giving tax breaks to attract some big new business like the Amazon "2nd" HQ a year or so ago, "Please send the rat wagon our way, we'll take anything you'll give us."

I don't like monopolies or semi-monopolies, one reason why I won't do Amazon, don't think any company should have 40+% of the market. I like some sort of competitive bidding or at least the appearance of it that's why I started sending to NAFA after the big Feb 2013 auction. Yeah, found out it wasn't perfect but at least sometimes there was actual bidding in the room for some of my furs. Not just one offer, take it or go home.

Look up Hobson's choice sometime, maybe its not at that point yet but give them time. When it devolves down, except maybe coyotes, to "hey I got a buck average on this species, and 3 bucks on that one, and so on" and you're happy with that, so be it, not me. I've will have had my fun and hang up what little steel I have. I have a GFW stop 25 miles away from me. Don't plan on going...

I'll wait to they reply and answer some of these questions but Groenewold has always called you with a price before sending a check in the past.

Sounds like Groenwold needs to work a deal with the post office. Deliver mail and buy fur, everybody wants a stop at their door!

When I lived in IL I had a choice of fur buyers. I would sell between Veirs, Groeny and NAFA. I always got a good price from Groney on most items. I think it's nice that they are stepping up to pick up the slack of NAFA going under. Expanding their routes to be available to more people is a good thing too.

I get what you're saying about a monopoly and of course more options is always best but I don't see a long line of people waiting to jump into the furbuying market right now, do you? Hey I know, maybe you can start buying fur and give Groeny a little competition!

I didn’t see anywhere on this thread that anyone indicated they were willing to take any amount Groenewald was going to offer them. And Groenewald certainly wouldn’t have any type of monopoly here in Pennsylvania. I have an FHA agent within 40 minutes and used to have a NAFA agent about the same distance. There are two country buyers an hour drive away and the local district of my state trapping association has an annual fur sale on the other side of the county. But, it’s always good to have even more options. That’s what I got out of what most of the posters are saying, they want more options.

And hey, at least I don’t have to pay somebody to trap three dollar muskrats.

Sorry, not my calling. Didn't want to sell insurance either, sooner or later you have to be able to crap on someone and sleep like a baby at night. But I do admire their relentless drive to expand their empire, its the American way. Maybe History channel will do one of those docudramas on them like they did for the "Food that Made America" and recently with American cars pitting the Ford family, John Deloren, and Lee Ioccoca against each other, didn't catch its name but it was interesting. Maybe the latter years of NAFA against GFW could be the most dramatic but perhaps that's too much inside baseball and not enough fan base to get the History channel to commit...

But I can. No race to the public huts for me this year, just have to fight the too early ice. Maybe that's my last hurrah there Lugnut, go out having fun. You going to sell your reddies for $6-8 a piece this year...? I'd rather home tan them and sell pieces and parts of them on ebay as trinkets then let a reddie go at such a price. But to each his own...

Nope, I’ll put them in storage before I sell them that cheap. I sold to a furrier out west earlier this year, two seasons worth of red fox. I averaged $18 apiece. Like I said above, selling fur is all about options.

And for me, it ain’t about paying to trap.

Well, there you go, found your best option but you didn't get that price without digging it out yourself. Certainly weren't going to get that average price selling to GFW, any of the other places you mentioned, or even the auctions the past couple of years. Good for you, I truly mean it, I'm glad you respected those reddies that much. I hope that honey hole holds up for you...

We're all entitled to our own opinion. I don't see it that way.

You're right about that.... it IS the American way. A business from a foreign country went buns up, and an American one is stepping up, even expanding into Canada, so that the loss is not as tragic as it could have been otherwise.

If that's not the American way, I don't know what is. Will I blindly sell all my fur to Groenewold regardless of price? Of course not... I'm not a moron. I'll be happy to sell furs to anyone able to beat them out, in either price, or convenience. I'll not drive 200 miles to make $0.25 more per coon unless I had thousands of coon to sell. My state is not even on the expanded GFW list.

But irregardless of whether or not I ever sell a piece of fur to them again, I'll still respect them for doing this to keep the fur market alive.

I am glad to see them stepping up to take on more. GFW aint stupid they see this as a great business opportunity. I would like to hear more details about this in the future. I feel they have done me fair in the past.

I get what you are saying. Only saw one post on here about Groeny's plan to cash in on a bad situation where somebody was skeptical enough to say they would show up at the rat wagon to see what they are offering. I don't know why they can't call ole Groeny and ask him what he is paying before they waste their time?

I'm sure those $18 Red Fox are not in heaven bragging about getting killed for $18. Probably are embarrassed. I guess that is better $10. Still awful.

Groeny Rocks!

I LIKE THAT IDEA. WOULD MUCH RATHER HAVE MY FUR GRADED THAN TO BE PAID BY NOSE COUNT. WITH THE TROUBLE IT SEEMS THAT NAFA IS HAVING, IT IS GOOD TO HAVE ANOTHER OUTLET.

How about South East Iowa. As far as I know you don't get below HWY 8o here in Iowa.
just

reminds me of the movie field of dreams,"if you park it,they will come."

most of our routes are posted. visit www.gfwco.com

Nobody is talking numbers. I don't imagine they will drive a long ways to pick up little fur.

Please come to Kansas to pick up my 3 coons.

Thanks

I vote for a Kansas stop.

Count? Grade ,really concerned ! No sale ?? Pretty much have you by the short hair here . I quit NAFA because of fur being switched ,Maybe by haulers (pickup) or maybe by mistake . Alls I know is I never had cross fox in my NAFA bag

You would be surprised at what the graders at NAFA called a cross fox. On the cross fox racks in Toronto at the auction I’ve seen everything from fox that I would call silvers to fox I would call reds and everything in between. Cross fox means different things to different folks.

Does Groenwald ever post price before season? I notice their prices are in words not numbers on their website.

My old furbuyer mailed me each and every season a price structure on what he was paying for pelts that season.

I noticed an arrow down ( not even a word ) on pine marten.

OK well thank you
just

If you talk to your GFW buyer he should have a price structure already. I talked to mine 2 days ago and he gave me broke down prices on everything.

Eric