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I don't mind giving a bit of luck if people give a good price but what really annoys me is when people come up to me and ask for some luck for "running it up for you mate"
I bet if you were buying store cattle you wouldn't mind being bribed a bit thoughNever needed to bribe someone to buy my stock luckily
Well of course!I bet if you were buying store cattle you wouldn't mind being bribed a bit though
No way should the underbidder get luck money, I know he's as good as the man who bought it but you can't spoil everyone....it's very rare up here if you don't get luck money on store cattle, no one ever asks for it but they trip over themselves to dish it outThere was always one dealer in Cardigan who would come and say I was the underbidder!
I bought in a dispersal last December, there was a fiver with the passport on every animal .
Bought 14 cows off one guy up north who put £50 in an envelope as luck.
Bought £33,000 worth of cattle at home with one guy near llechryd, not a penny!
When selling we do generaly give on breeding or young stock, just a nice gesture hoping they go on and do well for someone else. I would hesitate to buy from the llechryd man again
After all we all need a bit of luck in this world
And these are the kind of stories that give the old luck tradition a bad name. That's very different to giving somebody a couple of quid for buying a store bullock, ;instead you're manipulating the market to promote yourself.Local farmer here who sells top drawer scotch mule lambs went to blue faced tup sale in north of England to buy a stock tup.He buys quality and ended up with a tup at £4000 but he couldn't believe when seller gave him £1000 back in luck!
He genuinely thought he was paying 4 grand but maybe underbidder knew differently.
Plenty. It's traditionNone. It's 2017.
Why on earth would you give luck money? Does this happen in any other business? Is this why farmers are all skint?