LSL to charge for the App

Does the fiver cover looking back at previous sales?

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

which app would be the most popular across marts?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Lsl and mart eye are now controlled by the same people

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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