Why not list the price?

[cowboy43]

I see a lot of cattle for sale on different web pages and a big majority of listings do not have a price or they have a price and say negotiable on price. What is the reasoning for listing your cattle like this ? It seems like you would get a lot of unnecessary calls like this, and when you say negotiable you are asking for a horse trade. Just curious what do you think?

 

[dun]

I look at it like the deal about "If you have to ask you probably can;t afford it" If the price isn;t given I figure they're out of my price range

 

[Jim62]

A friend that owns a car dealership told me to never give a price in an ad for anything. That way, people have to call to find out the price. According to him, once you get them on the phone, you can always sell them something............

Might work for him-don't work for me.

 

[1982vett]

A friend that owns a car dealership told me to never give a price in an ad for anything. That way, people have to call to find out the price. According to him, once you get them on the phone, you can always sell them something............

Might work for him-don't work for me.

Doubt I would bother or waste my time to find out what they wanted for it either.

 

[Frankie]

I see a lot of cattle for sale on different web pages and a big majority of listings do not have a price or they have a price and say negotiable on price. What is the reasoning for listing your cattle like this ? It seems like you would get a lot of unnecessary calls like this, and when you say negotiable you are asking for a horse trade. Just curious what do you think?

If/when we advertise an animal for sale, we do include a price. I think it cuts down on calls from people who are looking for a cow freshner.

It doesn't stop all calls though. One year a gentleman called. He had bought himself a nice Hereford bull and "everyone" told him to get some Angus cows to go with the bull. I explained we only had registered cattle, but was able to give him the number of a friend who had some Angus sired females for sale.

But I couldn't think why someone would buy a bull and then look for cows to go with him? :help:

 

[Calman]

Well ya see Frankie,bulls just don't reproduce to good by themselves. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Cal

 

[SRBeef]

I almost never watch TV but was traveling on business not long ago and just flipped on the RFD channel to see what was on. They were showing a horse sale from somewhere. Well these horses were selling at auction anywhere from $10,000 to $200,000!

To me it was unbelievable that unless you were buying a proven triple crown winner how/why anyone would pay that much for a horse! It was not clear to me in the few minutes I watched this whether these were race horses or just riding horses...

I can see why they did not list prices on these horses! This auctioneer could really run the price up on some of these horses. How/why post a price on anything that the value of is almost indeterminate depending on the whims of an auction crowd?

I don't mean to offend any horse lovers here but I don't understand that business at all.

Jim

 

[bigbull338]

most sellers fogure if they dont list what they want for cattle they will get alot of calls.i wont call on cattle if the price is listed an i think its to high.

 

[Aaron]

most sellers fogure if they dont list what they want for cattle they will get alot of calls.i wont call on cattle if the price is listed an i think its to high.

That's how most around here, including myself, think. Put the price down and everyone will say it's too high. Most people buying bulls don't understand how much it costs to raise a bull to yearling alone. $2000.00 is too much for a bull of any age for most commercial producers in our area. $1000 is good for a yearling, $1200 is acceptable. Most won't pay over $1200 for a yearling. $1800 is pretty well the maximum for a two year old, with most being $1500-1600. I have been pretty lucky to never sell a yearling for less than $1200. Neighbours have sold some pretty nice yearling bulls for $800. :cowboy:

 

[Frankie]

It's hard to price a young bull. Price them too high and you're stuck feeding them until next sale season. Price them too low and you're kicking yourself. That's one reason we prefer to sell them through a sale. Let the buyers decide what he's worth.

 

[bigbull338]

i had some people come out an look at a bull i had for sale.he was a coming 2yr old bull.an i priced him for $1500.an they thought the price was too high.but if id priced him at $900 or $1000 theyd jumped on him.they went a bull sale i go to an bought a bull smaller than the 1 had for $900.the reason he brought $900 is because he was upset when he came into the ring.