Yes, when I got back from my granddaughter's birthday party last night, they were still selling cows at 10 PM CDT. And there were a number of cows that were selling in the $750 range then. I had other things to do today, so I haven't even tuned in.
I'd been a buyer for a number of them at that price (20-25 head) if it hadn't been for the shipping/importation costs that would probably run another $600 a head. Even at that, it sure made me consider bidding, but I hadn't prepared to buy any of the cows and studied them. I had only looked at possibly buying a herd bull and some embryos. Most of the embryos sold pretty high. There were a couple of the herd bull/semen deals that I probably should have bid on/bought.
I tried to buy two sets of embryos (654A& 654B) yesterday, but the connection froze and hiccuped when they were selling and it locked me out from bidding. I guess it wasn't meant to be. A couple of online bidders were getting notices that their bids were in and the winner, yet the cattle were being sold to other people by the auctioneer. All in all, it was one of the poorest interfaces that I've seen with liveauctions.tv. They usually do an excellent job with little delay. I've bought several through them in the past. I don't know if it was due to the fact that so many people were interested and tuned in and chuggin up the system - or just the connection from Remitall to liveauctions.tv's server wasn't up to par.
Another disappointing experience that I had with liveauctions.tv was last spring when you couldn't see the Red Hills cattle in the auction ring due to the ringmen constantly standing in the way. Another participant and I asked Katie to ask them to stand in another place, but she said there wasn't anything they could do about it. So I didn't bid/buy anything, even though a couple that I had targeted sold for very reasonable prices. These two experiences have made me think I may need to start going to sales again - where I have an interest in buying something.
George
