Buyers Commission

[DanM]

What is the going rate to charge a customer for sourcing and buying sheep and then organising the transportation to their premises?

 

[betweenthelines]

Are you buying in your name or bidding on his behalf?

If it's the latter, I'd charge £100/hour for your time and expertise.

If it's the former, I'd steer well clear.

 

[Agrivator]

What is the going rate to charge a customer for sourcing and buying sheep and then organising the transportation to their premises?

It depends, if you're honest, on how much luck you get from the vendors.

 

[sherg]

Store lambs tend to be around the 50 pence mark it depends on volume, breeding ewes would be more I'd of thought

 

[Mc115reed]

Your gonna have too give us more info here …
We talking riding round the country buying decker loads of lambs in 20 different markets week in week out or buying 3 tups at a ram sale maybe the off breeding ewe at the same sale?

 

[Estate fencing.]

I usually pay for the sheep and transport, I then charge them and add £1 head if they where bought at a decent price, £2 if it thought they where really cheap.

 

[DanM]

Your gonna have too give us more info here …
We talking riding round the country buying decker loads of lambs in 20 different markets week in week out or buying 3 tups at a ram sale maybe the off breeding ewe at the same sale?

Breeding sheep, few thousand and then rams to serve.

 

[Formatted]

I usually pay for the sheep and transport, I then charge them and add £1 head if they where bought at a decent price, £2 if it thought they where really cheap.

That's a lot of money to outlay for a few hundred pounds return?

 

[Estate fencing.]

That's a lot of money to outlay for a few hundred pounds return?

It is but wouldn’t do it for people that I didn’t know or trust (probably bit me on backside now). Usually get paid a couple of days after they arrive. I get the luck and cash for paying on the day as well, it’s well worth my time.

 

[betweenthelines]

Breeding sheep, few thousand and then rams to serve.

Sounds like a big operation.

Who's going to carry the risk for any that die in transit or within a few days of arriving at their destination? Or those that your client reject?

You need trade insurance.

 

[Top Tip.]

What is the going rate to charge a customer for sourcing and buying sheep and then organising the transportation to their premises?

50p a head for store lambs and £10 a head for tups. Mart invoices customer and deducts the fees to pay you.

 

[Ysgythan]

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