LSL to charge for the App

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

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

There's an opportunity here for a non for profit selling platform to be run by the IFA. Only picked the IFA as it's a large farmer union already there. Setting it up would could get the government or EU to fund or part fund as well. Argument would be for the good of agriculture in Ireland and transparency and fairness it brings to the farming community.

LSL, Marteye, etc, are only there because of Covid. And it was a case of anyone quick will do. But covid is gone now and the benefits of the online platforms are shown without doubt. But it's gone a stage where the private platforms are looking to use their advantage to make the big bucks and it will remove the last line in my first paragraph.

The marts themselves would be best positioned to replicate a system and control the direction of cost.

I wouldn't underestimate however the enormous cost of running something like this. It needs to be staffed every minute that a mart is in progress as a technical difficulty can't last for more than a few minutes.

What would the cost be of staffing this with even 4 or 5 techies. Some on here will know better but there mightnt be change out of 500k (might be way off)..but there's a lot of gathering in that at 500/month/mart.

No doubt the developers of these platforms, as with most tech, see their payday not in the operational profitability but in selling a the majority proportion of the business to a company that can move it on to another stage.

Many of these type of developers move through and twist new start ups every 5 to 10 years.

I doubt it. Marts were paying a fee per head which bigger Marts did not like. Heard of figures of up to a euro/head.

500/ month is handy enough money for access to a sales platform for bigger Marts. Take Gortalea selling maybe 2k+animals a week it works out about 6-7 cent per head.

I would not pay for the subscription to the rag either actually avoid buying it. Young lads buy it 1-2 times a month. Trying to get him to stop no point funding the enemy.

Have LSL annual premium subscription for a couple of years so I can view previous sales. A bit peeved as Castleisland take down there sales videos at midnight the day of the sale. Ennis only show the previous/last sale. Hope if everyone has to pay a subscription that marts are forced to show sales for previous 2-3 months.

I never leave the yard without having something bought. At this stage it costs me less than a euro a head for cattle that I buy. It saves me a fortune in diesel.

Having only some animals available for online bidding would be a balls.

It would normally but I was responding to the idea of a different model suggested above.

Not really first off its as much advantage to sellers as buyers. A lot of sellers watch there cattle selling from at home or work. As well the lad buying on line has put manners on tanglers who used to control around the ring

TBH for most lads it will not work out too expensive.you can always link up with a brother cousin or friend and use the same login to buy and just switch them into the correct herd number

you know how there was a subscription already if you wanted to look back on Marts. Will that feature be tied in with the new subscription I wonder or will it be extra again?

The cattle are not transferred into the herd number until you pay for them in case there is any issues. So when paying you instruct as to the herd number for cattle.

Now and again we pick up a few cattle for a friend of mine and a relative of my wife's. Cattle are put straight into there herd number