you ever get done on done deal or get a good deal

Fat Cant

Everthing I have got so far has been good
A potato planter €500 good
Howard rotavator €600 fair
Heifers good none died so far thank god

milkprofit

13 tn digger
dump trailer had been looking 6 months all good
Same as buying second hand anywhere BE A|WARE OF CONS
Pictures are a big help saves traveling for rubbish
sold cattle trailer from picture buyer happey

whelan1

husband advertises on it for haulage work, get a fair share of timewasters but has been good enough so far, doesnt take long to sort the tyre kickers from the real people.... have bought a good few things on it also, so far so good... i am looking for a br/fr bull at the minute in the leinster area, not too many on dd

fastrac

The report feature gets a lot of scams off DD. I always google the phone no to see if there is multiple ads using the same no. Its ideal for farmers with 24/7 access and the pictures. I have noticed more and more lonely hearts calling since the recession but if your a regular you will have them copped fairly fast. Farmers would be fairly good to spot a dodgy deal but id say there are plenty traps for the unwary.

bbam

Have bought and sold cars, stock, silage and machinery and never a bother at all.
It's a gift when your looking for something due to the sheer volume of adds, easy to spot overpriced goods.
For the price you get to put up a good add with a decent number of photos too. I don't even look at adds with no photos.
On the look out for chickens and pigs at the moment, truthfully I give it a scan most evenings just on the look out. I suppose I could be looking at worse!

1chippy

bought a good few heifers off it, only issue with pics you might be told an animal is heavier than it actually is. bought machines too no issues. tried to sell a few bits and had serious timewasters. had one lad on the phone 45 mins and just had to hang up.

Figerty

Was the guy that rang you just a lonely individual because I hear there is alot of this going on. Old lads just wanting to talk to someone or was it just a haggler trying to get you to give it away?

tim04750

Give it time

6480

have bought lots of machinery on it but when i am buying something i try and pick it up before the season starts , also i had a trailor stole and the smart boy that brought it out of the yard put it up for sale 3 weeks later , he didnt think i watch DD 3 times daily have to take a spin down to cork to fetch it back

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simx

6480 wrote: »

have bought lots of machinery on it but when i am buying something i try and pick it up before the season starts , also i had a trailor stole and the smart boy that brought it out of the yard put it up for sale 3 weeks later , he didnt think i watch DD 3 times daily have to take a spin down to cork to fetch it back

now that is a good one haha

simx

whelan1 wrote: »

husband advertises on it for haulage work, get a fair share of timewasters but has been good enough so far, doesnt take long to sort the tyre kickers from the real people.... have bought a good few things on it also, so far so good... i am looking for a br/fr bull at the minute in the leinster area, not too many on dd

what kind of haulage does your husband do? does he have a lorry?

whelan1

simx wrote: »

what kind of haulage does your husband do? does he have a lorry?

ye, has a scania with a 45ft low loader

sh1tstirrer

I sold bales on it and bought heifers and a horse off it, no problems. There were some amount of calls for bales this year, only 1 genuine call. 1 clown wanted to buy 100 bales off me the day he was calling to see them he came within 2miles of my yard and rang to say the distance was too far and he was inclined to give out to me for sending him such a distance, I wanted to tell him to invest in a map or check the distance on Google maps before he travels to view but I Kept my cool.

whelan1

ye get alot of clowns wanting jobs done for nothing:cool: also one person rang at 12.10am ffs, what would you be doing ringing some one at that time ... when i heard the phone ringing i thought there was something wrong, bloody idiot

Farmer Pudsey

DD is very good the pictures are great if I see no photo's I do not look at add, I have bought a car ,van, tractor off of it and sold some old farming equipment that might have rotted in the yard and a car. If you are selling old gear the thing is to be realistic and especially the same with cars. Old farming gear will always sell if it is priced right even if it is on DD for 3-4 weeks. Cars are different if you price them wrong after 2 weeks you will recieve no calls.

TopTec

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

DD is very good the pictures are great if I see no photo's I do not look at add.

Agree with this, but even then you have to be careful. I have been burned a couple of times with blue banger roof slates. Couple of long trips out to find seller was wrong, intentionally or otherwise, about the size and colour of the slates. Had to insist on a pic with tape measure on slate before I managed to get what I wanted.

Also a gearbox I bought failed at first test. It was replaced but I had to pay for the labour to take the failed one out.

Some of the prices make me snort in derision though. It takes a while before realism strikes.

kevthegaff

whelan1 wrote: »

ye get alot of clowns wanting jobs done for nothing:cool: also one person rang at 12.10am ffs, what would you be doing ringing some one at that time ... when i heard the phone ringing i thought there was something wrong, bloody idiot

sorry whelan i was a bit lonely, just wanted a chat!:D

snowman707

bought some store lambs off it


advertised a couple of bulls and when a purchaser came he took a fancy to some light yearling heifers we intended letting to grass so we dealt for them as well


I notice in some of the livestock photos the seller takes the pic while kneeling or hunched down giving the impression the the stock are taller than they actually are

some cute hoors on there ok

Bodacious

I got done last Sunday , 10 texel cross ewe pet lambs , Westmeath, Free To a good home, going on holiday Tuesday so must collect ASAP ... Rang fella straight away.. It was April fools gag his mates played on him! His phone was hoppin, sound lad though

milkprofit

i hope you rang him back at 3

whelan1

milkprofit wrote: »

i hope you rang him back at 3

have better things to be doing at 3am!

whelan1

got a call at 12.10 am this morning wtf! who would ring some one at that time

Askim

whelan1 wrote: »

got a call at 12.10 am this morning wtf! who would ring some one at that time

was it the same guy who rang last time, he must have read your previous post & wanted to catch up

A

moy83

Dad was selling his jeep a few weeks ago and a lad rang him at quarter to twelve on a saturday night . He told him that the price was too high (even though it priced in the ad ) and that he wouldnt spend that kind of money on it :rolleyes:
He then spent three quarters of an hour more talking about the crazy price of cattle and manure and diesel :rolleyes::rolleyes:
The worst part was that dad who was in bed asleep when the phone rang was happy as larry to chat away to him :D:D

youngchap

bought aload of calves of donedeal, found some sound lads, one ****, but overall good, decent:**** ratio

bbam

Bought 4 Weanling Heifers thisevening... Had then delivered in my yard 3 hours after seeing the add... It's hard to beat that

bob charles

bbam wrote: »

Bought 4 Weanling Heifers thisevening... Had then delivered in my yard 3 hours after seeing the add... It's hard to beat that

The department of Ag would love to hear of such efficiency :P

bbam

bob charles wrote: »

The department of Ag would love to hear of such efficiency :P

But i didn't buy them from the department

keep going

whelan1 wrote: »

got a call at 12.10 am this morning wtf! who would ring some one at that time

ah whelan you put enough info up here for any of us to figure out what the no is and ring at that time for the crack,come on lads who did it,own up

blue5000

keep going wrote: »

ah whelan you put enough info up here for any of us to figure out what the no is and ring at that time for the crack,come on lads who did it,own up

Wasn't me but I was tempted:) My money is on kev!!

Is it the ad with/without the digger?;)