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<blockquote data-quote="hillsdown" data-source="post: 601171" data-attributes="member: 5106"><p>12- 15 hundred dollars as a starting price is not greedy for a good bull and that was not what I was referring to.</p><p></p><p>I have seen this last year many minimum bids starting at 2500-3000 for a bull and from the epd's and pics they were not that exceptional ,and cross bred yearling heifers with minimum bid starting at 1500..</p><p></p><p>Greed comes in when they get no minimum bids and the animal does not sell. A commercial cattleman that lives close to us went to such a sale and everything was over priced and about 35% did not sell. He contacted them afterwards on a "lot" that did not sell and they would not even negotiate the minimum bid price. That is greed, and we are only talking about a 10% decrease on price. The day of a 5000 dollar bull for a commercial cattle man in this country are few and far between when the calves whether they weigh 1000lbs or 500lbs are going for around the 1 dollar mark.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hillsdown, post: 601171, member: 5106"] 12- 15 hundred dollars as a starting price is not greedy for a good bull and that was not what I was referring to. I have seen this last year many minimum bids starting at 2500-3000 for a bull and from the epd's and pics they were not that exceptional ,and cross bred yearling heifers with minimum bid starting at 1500.. Greed comes in when they get no minimum bids and the animal does not sell. A commercial cattleman that lives close to us went to such a sale and everything was over priced and about 35% did not sell. He contacted them afterwards on a "lot" that did not sell and they would not even negotiate the minimum bid price. That is greed, and we are only talking about a 10% decrease on price. The day of a 5000 dollar bull for a commercial cattle man in this country are few and far between when the calves whether they weigh 1000lbs or 500lbs are going for around the 1 dollar mark. [/QUOTE]
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