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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1368999" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>6 times would have the slammed phone breaking his eardrum. We do a little bit of dickering, but if I feel someone has priced something fair, I won't insult them by asking them to compromise. Most everyone will price things a little higher to give themselves some wiggle room, but some just say this is it period end of story. We priced a group of 450 wt steers to a guy we knew was looking to buy, they came out and looked at them. Price was $.25 more than what he had bought some for the day before at the market. We settled on .05 less than what we wanted but nearly .20 more than what he had paid. We delivered and paid the weigh tickets at the truck stop scales, they were close so not that big of a deal and he wants 15 to 20 more if we have them in the next 10 days at that same price. He is happy to not have to go buy stuff he doesn't know too much about, and right off the farm so less chance of picking up any disease, we are saving a little commission and getting a little more than what they would bring at the market. He also is willing to take the couple of red ones that are pretty nice, and we would have lost at least another $.25 on them at the market. If this works out he says he would like to have a chance to buy again next year. They buy in sept/oct and sell in the early summer at one of the graded sales. They try to raise 60-70 so might work out good for us. Not looking to lock in a price but to base it on the current market and then we got a bit more because he liked them. We have done some direct sales before, but not alot. Like getting the check the day the cattle are sold at the sale with no hassle. They wrote us a check when we gave them the weigh tickets right there, then sat and visited for an hour talking about people that we all knew. Nice evening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1368999, member: 25884"] 6 times would have the slammed phone breaking his eardrum. We do a little bit of dickering, but if I feel someone has priced something fair, I won't insult them by asking them to compromise. Most everyone will price things a little higher to give themselves some wiggle room, but some just say this is it period end of story. We priced a group of 450 wt steers to a guy we knew was looking to buy, they came out and looked at them. Price was $.25 more than what he had bought some for the day before at the market. We settled on .05 less than what we wanted but nearly .20 more than what he had paid. We delivered and paid the weigh tickets at the truck stop scales, they were close so not that big of a deal and he wants 15 to 20 more if we have them in the next 10 days at that same price. He is happy to not have to go buy stuff he doesn't know too much about, and right off the farm so less chance of picking up any disease, we are saving a little commission and getting a little more than what they would bring at the market. He also is willing to take the couple of red ones that are pretty nice, and we would have lost at least another $.25 on them at the market. If this works out he says he would like to have a chance to buy again next year. They buy in sept/oct and sell in the early summer at one of the graded sales. They try to raise 60-70 so might work out good for us. Not looking to lock in a price but to base it on the current market and then we got a bit more because he liked them. We have done some direct sales before, but not alot. Like getting the check the day the cattle are sold at the sale with no hassle. They wrote us a check when we gave them the weigh tickets right there, then sat and visited for an hour talking about people that we all knew. Nice evening. [/QUOTE]
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