LSL to charge for the App

My thoughts exactly. Anyone that thinks standing in the sellers box will get them a better price has a lot to learn about marts.

The online has eliminated the majority of that but it was never as widespread as does be made out either.

The majority of animals sold in the mart end up the same way, the seller thinks the auctioneer is after giving them away to his dealer friends as they were definitely worth a lot more than what he got whereas the buyer thinks the auctioneer was taking phantom bids because he’s after having to pay way above what they were worth to buy them.

I don’t sell in marts but do buy there. I know what I’m willing to pay for an animal and whether the seller is in the box or not makes no difference to what the animal is worth to me.

Clare Marts post on Facebook;

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Thanks

I see Ennis Mart is flying it too on Martbids. You can't beat competition.

Looks like the four Aurivo marts in the west have switched from LSL to MartBids.

2 of the aurivos were already on Martbids. It's Ballymote and Mohill that moved. That's 11 marts moved in 2/3 weeks.

4 of clare Marts, 2 of Aurivo, and on marteye Facebook page 5 have moved. By the way this trend is going there will be many more.

LSL emergency board meeting.

It does seem more basic, but it works. The 'Sold' catalogue is good as it gives all the details of the lots sold , except for sellers name, video playback. It does work out 'Price per KG' which is handy.

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

Absolutely useless you have to watch the mart live you see animals. This prevents you analysing the marts. As a buyer it's a useless facility.

Hope the rest of the marts stay with LSL. Lads got excited over 10 euro a month. Marts want more people ringside, but it's not going to happen. Even as a seller Martbid and Mart eye are a disaster you have to watch live to see the trade. For most sellers LSL would have only cost 20-40/ month

No age detail on the Martbid catalogue neither can you filter your breed or age. Neither can you tag lots so you can be notified when they are being sold

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

On Marteye Facebook it says it was founded in covid times. Also says it on there website so I'd imagine your right and marteye themselves are wrong

Is carrigallen a good mart

Are you sure?

They are still showing on LSL.

It's up on Facebook aswell. That's 7 marts gone to Martbids now and 5 to marteye.

Seen an article in the independent yesterday with a quote from milford mart manager on why he changed from LSL to Marteye. Roughly about the no consultation from lsl and pressure from farmers