LSL to charge for the App

amacca

I see LSL are going to start charging you if you use the App

Fiver a month even if you are just viewing...more if you are buying

Theyll do an annual sub for viewing of 50..

I'm not tight but I don't think the use I get out of it warrants the outlay tbh..+ I know businesses love a subscription model bit I'm overdosed and a bit sick of them tbh...I occasionally look at one or two of my own going through or have a look at a sale...I've bought from time to time but it's sporadic...I think I'll leave it to them and go old school

What say ye?

Hershall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058364582/lsl-to-charge-for-the-app

Does the fiver cover looking back at previous sales?

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122507671#Comment_122507671

Don't know that....didn't read the full article......cheapo here doesn't want to pay for a farmers journal subscription either

I'd imagine they should at least at the start to soften the blow and then I introduce an extra charge for it down the road to "invest in and improve" the service if I know my subscription playbook properly

50HX

I'm amazed it has taken this long

It's been a real game changer since it's introduction.

Matter a jot of you are selling but for those buying its a no trainer

Bidding from the comfort of home vs stuck ringside at midnight in some cases & for those of us working off farm it's a godsend

Will be signing up

kk.man

If the others don't follow, how long will that app last

farawaygrass

which app would be the most popular across marts?

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122508013#Comment_122508013

Yep...I suppose that's the long and short of it.

Life itself is a subscription model of sorts!

Tileman

sick of all the subscriptions tbh. Would look at a few and maybe hennessy machinery auction. Don’t think I’ll pay for another subscription. If the other 2 apps hold out for a while they will get increased business. However more than likely they will follow suit aswell.

Cavanjack

I buy off the 3 apps. If they all follow suit it’ll be €360 a year. I do save on time buying online but it’s a bit of a sickener. Wonder what do they charge the marts?
It works out expensive per head for any man even just buying 100 head per year.
It’s equivalent to a 30% increase in commision for any man buying 100 online.

148multi

Even the vets have to pay a fee for the hand held device they use when tb testing, one way or another it's all been passed back to the farmers

emaherx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122508234#Comment_122508234

Do you buy 12 months of the year? I'm sure plenty do but probably not most.

It's €10 for 30 days access or €100 for 12 months. I can't see the average farmer needing to pay for the whole year.

grange mac

It's a pity they don't have a 3/6 month option.... They probably know if done that then they lose the 12 months option.

148multi

Was at a mart in galway yesterday, it said on lsl that you could pay per month €10 to buy, to view €3 per month.

emaherx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122508849#Comment_122508849

Well it's just 3 -6 monthly payments then? Still less than the annual sub and better value than a six month sub as you don't need to use it all in consecutive months. The annual sub would only ever make sense if you use it 10 months or more out of the year.

Limestone Cowboy

Will a lot of marts on the lsl platform change to marteye or martbids I wonder. Committee meetings will be interesting. I'd reluctantly pay if I had to because the few marts I use are all using it but it would be some sickner to pay the subscription and for the marts to change provider.

148multi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122508962#Comment_122508962

Some marts a dead against it, lsl charging €500 per month to marts.

Lsl and mart eye are now controlled by the same people

Silverdream

It was great while it was free, but I guess there are costs associated with streaming live data like that. Plus now that people have got used to it, they can now force people to pay. I'd say RTE 1 will be delighted, as they'll get all the pensioners back watching TV now instead.

orm0nd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122508962#Comment_122508962

I imagine the marts might have entered a contract and maybe tied to that for a while. Could be wrong though.

Like every other piece of legislation it will be topic of conversation for a while and most likely forgotten about in a month or so.

kk.man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122509013#Comment_122509013

I believe a fairly large beef processor is the beneficial owner of it.

emaherx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122509013#Comment_122509013

Any source for them being controlled by the same people? Surely if that were true they would merge them before creating a paid subscription model?

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/monthly-fee-set-for-farmers-viewing-some-marts-online/

In a statement to 

Agriland

, Jamie Nolan from MartEye confirmed that online bidding platform MartEye “has no plans” to introduce a monthly subscription payment.

emaherx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122509083#Comment_122509083

If the contracts didn't include the possibility of a subscription model it may well give marts an out from existing contracts.

148multi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122509357#Comment_122509357

The source of the information is a mart manager, apparently lsl and mart eye have been bought in, by a third party.

But Seamus Mallon has still a say.

The marts were paying a fee per head until 22, now set fees per mart.

148multi

Know one exporter that won't buy where lsl is. Reckons that all the data is bieng harvested and they are in competition with Mallon.

System

This discussion was created from comments split from: No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11.

Cavanjack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122508640#Comment_122508640

yes this is true. Only buy maybe 7-8 months of the year.

Danny healy ray

i hear rip.ie will charge you before long to check death notices

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511268#Comment_122511268

Guess I'll be saving on funeral attendance expenses from now on....two birds one stone.

visatorro

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511268#Comment_122511268

The chief listens to local radio for the death notices. Said recently there wasn't too many on it anymore . Was talking to the undertaker at a wake and he said he doesn't inform them anymore because they charge to announce deaths. He said it was wrong because they started off as a community radio.

Lime Tree Farm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511268#Comment_122511268

It's probably harder to administer RIP.ie since Covid when they introduced a condolence section. Maybe that could be knocked on the head now. Ever notice with a tragic death all these anonymous contributors have to throw their tuppence worth in.

jfh

I pay 98 for the subscription, I take it that's the full charge, will they be adding to this?

alps

You'd be inclined to take stock to sell to the mart that's not using LSL. Be thinking there would be a little more competition around that screen.

Cork marts use 2 different platforms. Hard to see them having clients charged at one mart and not at another.