LSL to charge for the App

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.