LSL to charge for the App

Ye they were trying to be smart to make more money and in all honesty it looks like its going to loose them money.

Once I can see & bid at the two marts I use that use it there is no way I will pay them to veiw any other mart live & there is no way I am going to pay them to bid at a mart either.

Be interesting to see do more marts follow or will it settle down now.

Spill the beans!

No beans to spill. Not involved in the mart trade, buy calves from 2 farms and finish everything.

It's a helicopter view that I gave. The 3 climbdowns have been a disaster for LSL. Add the fact in others have said they will not charge. They have lost a shed load of credibility while the others have sat back hoover up business. Charging potential buyers was always going to be a hard sell. No mart will want to turn away potential buyers even if they are hidden away in group that contains nursing homes and teenagers

I was critical of lsl when they introduced the charges and they back pedal 3 times I think should have scraped charges straight away I am a subscriber and find it the best app as bass said look back see cattle and prices you can read the trade like this week the trade is cool a little lsl weren’t going bad loads of Marts going well in property side pushing the property side hard MartBids must have undercut lsl and as well loads of farmers ringing marts to register them so they won’t have to pay the €5 mart staff must have being getting annoyed hope MartBids make there app better look back and see cattle and prices is the business

Carrigallen gone now to mart bids another big loss.

Yeah it is they have a great weanlings sales on a sat and they do have special sales from time to time herbies heifers where there last sat

got a tex message this morning and they have a profile on mart bids now

There must have been correspondence behind the scenes between LSL and the marts that the marts thought LSL were too cheeky for this abandonment.

The customer is always right and all that.

Some kick in the you know where for those behind LSL. From cock of the walk last month to the bottom and wondering if your business is going to survive this month.

It’s going to come to a crunch if sellers think they aren’t getting what they think is a fair price for a beast. Plenty of mart managers won’t want to get a bollocking if there was very little online bidding to drive on the price of an animal in the ring.
My tuppence is LSLAuctions have made a dogs dinner out of it.

OH got the text this morning. He didn't read it.

Martbids would want to get their finger out as IMO it's the worst of the three providers - the move will suit the boys with their hands in around the ring.

you know I have never used that one. No mart I look at used it u til now. I have used MartEye with Ballyjamesduff and found it good and LSL and also found it good. The mistake LSL made was not get MartBids and MartEye together and introduce a pricing system together but it’s too late for that now anyway.

if lsl was clever they wouldn’t have looked for any fee like they have what I would have done was look for 10c or something small to be paid to the online provider of every lot bought and sold and that’s how they would make real money.

I emailed lsl and told them I bought and sold at kilmallock mart and they let me by we'll call it and I can see every mart on lsl

I would say it's only a matter of time. My count has it at 12 marts gone from LSL.