Best place to advertise cattle

Munster Magic

Just wondering where people would recommend to adverte cattle for sale. Done deal, farmers journal???

bbam

DoneDeal..

Good photos, price them up front, don't answer texts nor listen to any lonley hearts...

Munster Magic

bbam wrote: »

DoneDeal..

Good photos, price them up front, don't answer texts nor listen to any lonley hearts...

Thing is I tried done deal last week and didn't get one call or text. I didn't have prices up though

bob charles

bbam wrote: »

DoneDeal..

Good photos, price them up front, don't answer texts nor listen to any lonley hearts...

I dont get the dont answer txt thing. I am often looking at something and say the size isnt given, I would just drop and txt and ask what size is the item etc. No point phoning if it doesnt suit you

Munster Magic

bob charles wrote: »

I dont get the dont answer txt thing. I am often looking at something and say the size isnt given, I would just drop and txt and ask what size is the item etc. No point phoning if it doesnt suit you

Ya, I would have no problem replying to a text IF I got one:-(

nashmach

bob charles wrote: »

I dont get the dont answer txt thing. I am often looking at something and say the size isnt given, I would just drop and txt and ask what size is the item etc. No point phoning if it doesnt suit you

Some of the older generation wouldn't be as handy with the texting, well at least that is the case here!!!

Sam Kade

Munster Magic wrote: »

Ya, I would have no problem replying to a text IF I got one:-(

That's grand but then you have someone having a conversation with you in text without a notion of buying what you are selling :mad:

Munster Magic

Sam Kade wrote: »

That's grand but then you have someone having a conversation with you in text without a notion of buying what you are selling :mad:

That happens but most of the time it is just the one text looking for prices

bbam

Why wouldnt you put up a price?

Munster Magic

bbam wrote: »

Why wouldnt you put up a price?

Main reason being I thought it might scare some people off but I seem to have done that anyway. Genuinely quite surprised that I didn't get any contact at all about them

red bull

Best place to advertise is bring them to the mart, cattle have gone up 50...to ... 100€ over the last two weeks

st1979

Munster Magic wrote: »

That happens but most of the time it is just the one text looking for prices

Try the other way round as being a seller. You might realise most texters are too shy to ring and they are also too shy to buy. Have balls and ring the man

whelan1

Munster Magic wrote: »

Main reason being I thought it might scare some people off but I seem to have done that anyway. Genuinely quite surprised that I didn't get any contact at all about them

maybe people have no money, wait til the sfp comes in

Munster Magic

red bull wrote: »

Best place to advertise is bring them to the mart, cattle have gone up 50...to ... 100€ over the last two weeks

No point in bringing purebreds to the mart as there would be noone there to buy them, well there would but it would be for less than I was hoping for

Munster Magic

whelan1 wrote: »

maybe people have no money, wait til the sfp comes in

Possibly but I was still expecting a couple of calls

whelan1

a lad on here put pb aa heifers on last week, got 10 calls and 2 visits

Munster Magic

whelan1 wrote: »

a lad on here put pb aa heifers on last week, got 10 calls and 2 visits

That doesn't make me feel any better tbh. Maybe people view them as poor stock but the ad has had nearly 400 views in 6 days. Might chance putting them up again and try next week's journal as well

whelan1

do they export limousins? we exported some aa heifers last year, sold some earlier in the year this year , we didnt advertise a lad just arrived and bought them:eek: spread the word around , is there a limousin website? just bump the ad again and see what happens...

Mac Taylor

MM, Had PB bulls up on Donedeal earlier this year with no prices. Got alot of calls most of which were wasting every ones time. Put them up again with prices, got way less calls however I had them sold in about 4 days.
Why not put up a price range? Priced from 2,500 - 3,000. That then gives you some wriggle room aswell.

Munster Magic

whelan1 wrote: »

do they export limousins? we exported some aa heifers last year, sold some earlier in the year this year , we didnt advertise a lad just arrived and bought them:eek: spread the word around , is there a limousin website? just bump the ad again and see what happens...

Ya they have started exporting them as far as I know. Will bump up the ad and put them on the limousin website and see how it goes. Strange thing is that I put them up on Facebook and got 4 or 5 enquiries but they were all from up north

Munster Magic

Mac Taylor wrote: »

MM, Had PB bulls up on Donedeal earlier this year with no prices. Got alot of calls most of which were wasting every ones time. Put them up again with prices, got way less calls however I had them sold in about 4 days.
Why not put up a price range? Priced from 2,500 - 3,000. That then gives you some wriggle room aswell.

Thanks, spot on with the prices as well btw:-)

Thing is I got no calls with no prices up so I can't really get any less

pakalasa

Munster magic. I saw your adds last week. That's the ERE heifer you had pictures up here of, some time back. When i saw the add, I thought because you had no price up, that you were looking for too high a price.
Put up a price range and see how it goes.
Nobody is willing to travel long distances without knowing what you are looking for them. They are fine looking animals and you will sell them 'at the right price'.

bob charles

I have never bought an animal of donedeal, as there are just too many time wasters, do many others use the service

Munster Magic

pakalasa wrote: »

Munster magic. I saw your adds last week. That's the ERE heifer you had pictures up here of, some time back. When i saw the add, I thought because you had no price up, that you were looking for too high a price.
Put up a price range and see how it goes.
Nobody is willing to travel long distances without knowing what you are looking for them. They are fine looking animals and you will sell them 'at the right price'.

It's actually a different Ere heifer to the one I had up here. Tbh I am planning on bringing the heifers to the premier sale in roscrea in November but I said I would throw them up when I was putting up the cow.

I would consider the prices fairly reasonable and I will bump up the ad tomorrow with prices and I might be putting up the Ere heifer I had up here as well but I have someone coming to look at her in the morning

delaval

Mac Taylor wrote: »

MM, Had PB bulls up on Donedeal earlier this year with no prices. Got alot of calls most of which were wasting every ones time. Put them up again with prices, got way less calls however I had them sold in about 4 days.
Why not put up a price range? Priced from 2,500 - 3,000. That then gives you some wriggle room aswell.

No room there you are starting at 2500

IFJ only place. No price or Sunday callers. If a person wants cattle they will need to see. If they want a price the deal should be done on the phone, but wait it can't because they want to see them.

My add always includes price on inspection as the person may want 2 or 30 animals. Big difference in those prices

st1979

I have bought lots of stuff on donedeal and ebay etc and sold stuff including calves on donedeal. And i will never ring about anything that has no price. I have tried to sell without putting up a price and you get no calls. So price is a must. Cause as a buyer its hard to know are you wanting what i consider a reasonable price or not. I don't want to ring and hear that you want twice what i think its worth. Cause i dont want to A: feel like i am an eejit thinking i could get such a thing for what i taught it was worth or B: make you think your an eejit thinking its worth twice what it really is.

Munster Magic

Think I will put them back up on done deal tomorrow with prices and on the limousin website and if I don't get any calls I will put them up on next week's journal

Muckit

Munster Magic wrote: »

Ya, I would have no problem replying to a text IF I got one:-(

I'd have a different view right or wrong. Id think if they were texting they've no money for price of a phone call let alone what lm selling. They've plenty of time though. ..time to be wasting my time!

whelan1

Muckit wrote: »

I'd have a different view right or wrong. Id think if they were texting they've no money for price of a phone call let alone what lm selling. They've plenty of time though. ..time to be wasting my time!

most calls are free now though

bob charles

delaval wrote: »

No room there you are starting at 2500

IFJ only place. No price or Sunday callers. If a person wants cattle they will need to see. If they want a price the deal should be done on the phone, but wait it can't because they want to see them.

My add always includes price on inspection as the person may want 2 or 30 animals. Big difference in those prices

if you are going to travel you need to know what the person has and what price he has in their head. Guy rang me recently having cattle for sale, got number from a mart. I called the next day and was under serve time pressure. Looked at the animals and valued them at 1100 - 1150 in my head. Asks what he wanted for them and told me he was bid 1350 already. I said to him in a polite way - what the hell have you me here for so?? Talk about wasting my time

Munster Magic

Am I better off putting up separate adds or will I put the cow and 2/3 heifers on the one add? Should I put up as much info as possible or just the basics?

whelan1

the moreinfo you put the better imo, saves stupid phone calls

pakalasa

I'd put up a picture of the mother of the second heifer.

bbam

All details and prices.

whelan1

see a new thing on dd- well maybe it was always there:rolleyes:- you can go direct to other ads listed by the person placing an ad

AntrimGlens

Munster, does your local mart advertise in the ifj or localish paper. If we're offloading some pb stock and have no takers locally among pb breeders we'd ring the mart and they'll advertise them in their ad for that weeks sale under our name and what they are. i.e
Friday Weekly sale of dairy cows/dropped calves/suckler cows with special entry for ******** to include 2 4yo pb lims with bull calves at foot out of Tonka.
it wouldn't be unusual for this to be done here by any of the breeders of cattle or sheep

just a thought

Munster Magic

Just after putting them up on done deal again with prices so will wait and see if that makes any difference, hopefully it will. Thanks for the help

razor8

travelled over a hundred miles yesterday to look at stock that were on done deal, looked the business on the photo's but not when I got there, I came home empty
The photo's can be very deceiving on done deal when taken by a good cameraman, anyway lesson learned!

Munster Magic

razor8 wrote: »

travelled over a hundred miles yesterday to look at stock that were on done deal, looked the business on the photo's but not when I got there, I came home empty
The photo's can be very deceiving on done deal when taken by a good cameraman, anyway lesson learned!

Don't worry, I'm a shocking bad cameraman but the stock are good;)

delaval

bob charles wrote: »

if you are going to travel you need to know what the person has and what price he has in their head. Guy rang me recently having cattle for sale, got number from a mart. I called the next day and was under serve time pressure. Looked at the animals and valued them at 1100 - 1150 in my head. Asks what he wanted for them and told me he was bid 1350 already. I said to him in a polite way - what the hell have you me here for so?? Talk about wasting my time

Never failed to sell yet.

Callers from DD are 90% time wasters who haven't found boards or a mistress to occupy their evenings.

lakill Farm

plan to donedeal is a few clear pictures
a full description etc.
a price range


Some ads you wonder how the seller managed to place the advert.

locky76

Munster Magic wrote: »

Just after putting them up on done deal again with prices so will wait and see if that makes any difference, hopefully it will. Thanks for the help

excellent ad, well done and best of luck, keep us posted.
Are you confident for the all Ireland?

Munster Magic

locky76 wrote: »

excellent ad, well done and best of luck, keep us posted.
Are you confident for the all Ireland?

Thanks. Had one text about the cow but price was a bit high for him or so he said anyway

Wouldn't say I am confident but definitely think we are capable of winning it. Might look a bit strange but I might have to put swap for all Ireland tickets at the bottom of my add:-)

nashmach

whelan1 wrote: »

see a new thing on dd- well maybe it was always there:rolleyes:- you can go direct to other ads listed by the person placing an ad

That is new in the past few days, a welcome feature.

For the OP, are there no special pedigree sales in your local mart for this type of stock?

moy83

Does anyone buy or sell off the dealer ? I havent but its fairly full of stuff

Sam Kade

moy83 wrote: »

Does anyone buy or sell off the dealer ? I havent but its fairly full of stuff

What's the dealer?

moy83

Sam Kade wrote: »

What's the dealer?

Small paper like the buy and sell . Its free to place ads in and about two euro to buy

Sam Kade

moy83 wrote: »

Small paper like the buy and sell . Its free to place ads in and about two euro to buy

Never heard of it, is it country wide?

moy83

Sam Kade wrote: »

Never heard of it, is it country wide?

I think it is but there are four versions for the different province's. Have a look in the local shop , its worth perusing once anyhow .

moy83

moy83 wrote: »

I think it is but there are four versions for the different province's. Have a look in the local shop , its worth perusing once anyhow .

Just googled it there . They are online aswell .

Munster Magic

Munster Magic wrote: »

Just after putting them up on done deal again with prices so will wait and see if that makes any difference, hopefully it will. Thanks for the help

One week later and it seems putting prices on the ad didn't make much of a difference. Had one text about the cow and that was it, maybe the prices are a bit high but we said we would leave ourselves with a bit of room for negotiation

Not sure what to try next, have them on the journal tomorrow and if that doesn't work then we will give them one last go on done deal at the lowest we will take