LSL to charge for the App

That will suit the dealers and factory agents around the ring with their hands in stopping. I doubt many will pay €120 a year.

Surly the marts are paying them as the service provider and wouldn’t want to loose the customer bidding and certainly won’t bring people back to the ring.

I have used the app a couple of times to buy sheep or weanlings without visiting the mart. Usually a neighbour or a member of the mart staff would vet the animals for me and pass on the details. Would be fairly slow to pay any sub. as most likely it will only increase if supported.

How often does the average farmer bid? There is a €10 for 30 days access in the dropdown list so you would be mad to pay the €120 if you only bid a couple of times a year. But the subscription for viewing would annoy me more as it's good sometimes to see how the trade is going, thankfully I usually use MartEye.

Edit: looks like it is €100 for the year

Think they are asking increased fees off marts too, there was a discussion at our local mart board meeting about it.

Wonder what Marteye are going to do. How do they fund themselves?

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.