Machinery sales

[spark plug]

Now that Covid is hopefully becoming a dim and distant memory. I had assumed things in the machinery sale world would also go back to normal, but it seems that many of the marts are reluctant to relinquish the online formats developed during Covid.

To me a machinery sale was much more than a opportunity to buy a used pice of equipment that I needed, but a day off, a chance to catch up with people I haven’t seen in a while or just a chance to get a decent breakfast (depending on the mart).

So anyway what are others thoughts on the situation, as you can probably tell I am in favour of a return to plodding arround a mart Feild in the rain.

 

[Strungup52]

If you were having a sale though, why would you pay to have all the auction staff for the day and all and sundry ‘borrowing’ bits of equipment you were selling as proper and complete. You simply have to have live online auction presence to get top price so an on farm auction is extra expense for no measurable financial benefit in my opinion.
Our farm sale 20 odd years ago was a nightmare ‘cos the day and those preceding were like Noah’s flood meaning negotiating with a local haulage yard for parking and hiring a local minibus operator to bus people to the sale. The icing on the cake was that one attendee had his truck stolen from the car park area.
Online was not an option then, but today there are so many benefits to everybody, buyer or seller, I wouldn’t have an on farm sale. I have no wish to pay my money so that tyre-kickers can blather at my expense, but I grant I would deprive the burger seller of a day’s takings!

 

[Bald Rick]

Moved this to "Machinery" as will probably attract more comments here than the echo chamber of "Politics" forum @spark plug

Personally, I quite like online sales as we are relatively remote in terms of travelling to sales but with the help of auctioneers videoing etc, it's allows us to buy stuff we would otherwise miss

 

[spin cycle]

online all day long....can't be arsed standing around for hours

 

[Tarw Coch]

On farm, I’ve never so much as looked at an online auction, if I can’t inspect something in person I wouldn’t want to buy it.
I’ve bought plenty of small lots over the years that I hadn’t even intended to buy being there in person, travelled a 100 mike last year to see a manitou, ended up as the under bidder but bought a couple of small lots as I was there.
I wouldn’t have bought online as they wouldn’t have been worth fetching and I wouldn’t have bid to the price I did on the manitou without giving a close inspection.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

I like going to an 'on site' sale . It always amuses me how that when you are looking at a particular piece of machinery nearly ever time someone will come along and point out all the faults !

How ever ... I recently took OH to a sale to buy some stuff for the garden but even though we were there I bid for the stuff online cos it meant that I didn't have to queue up at the end in a long line to pay . I just picked up the stuff and went knowing the money had already gone out of my bank .
It's interesting to see how different firms do online auctions . The best I've found is H J Pughs (Ledbury) so easy to use .

 

[Hfd Cattle]

When I pack up in a few yrs time I'm seriously thinking of setting up my own 'timed ' online auction with a couple of viewing days before hand and a couple of collection days after . It's cheap and easy to set up and hassle free .
I know someone who did it and their stuff made top money .....far more than expected .

 

[Fendt516profi]

When I pack up in a few yrs time I'm seriously thinking of setting up my own 'timed ' online auction with a couple of viewing days before hand and a couple of collection days after . It's cheap and easy to set up and hassle free .
I know someone who did it and their stuff made top money .....far more than expected .

If you did that you'd probably get people wanting to part ex newer stuff in for what they buy so you end up starting up again with newer tackle

 

[deere 6600]

I know I’m sad but I like kicking the tyres if I’m buying something

 

[roscoe erf]

online all day long....can't be arsed standing around for hours

not a good mix for you ive seen your purchases

 

[daveydiesel1]

As much as standing at a sale bores me there was always a bargain to be had here and there especially if the rain came on, not so much now with online. Iv never been to cambridge but id love to do it sometime

 

[DRC]

Ive just sold most of my machinery without a farm sale which we’d originally planned.
Having friends in the trade helped, one in particular who valued things and gave me contacts I didn’t know existed.
Facebook market place, word of mouth and at the moment, a shortage of new machinery, has helped me achieve prices I’ve been very happy with.
Theres a bit of work involved in emailing pictures to any dealers you can think of and people have kindly said my stuff was very tidy. Might be different if you had tons of scrap in the nettles.
Saved me thousands in commission and the other expenses that I hadn’t realised you had to pay for with a farm sale, such as security, toilets, putting everything out yourself , whilst paying 5% and the buyers having to pay a buyers premium .
Horses for courses I suppose .

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

@Barleymow

 

[Speedstar]

Ive just sold most of my machinery without a farm sale which we’d originally planned.
Having friends in the trade helped, one in particular who valued things and gave me contacts I didn’t know existed.
Facebook market place, word of mouth and at the moment, a shortage of new machinery, has helped me achieve prices I’ve been very happy with.
Theres a bit of work involved in emailing pictures to any dealers you can think of and people have kindly said my stuff was very tidy. Might be different if you had tons of scrap in the nettles.
Saved me thousands in commission and the other expenses that I hadn’t realised you had to pay for with a farm sale, such as security, toilets, putting everything out yourself , whilst paying 5% and the buyers having to pay a buyers premium .
Horses for courses I suppose

Are you packing in farming now ?

 

[spin cycle]

not a good mix for you ive seen your purchases

and i've sold some of them to you

 

[Wombat]

I like a physical walk round before then an online sale as you can bid from anywhere.

 

[DRC]

Are you packing in farming now ?

Yes

 

[james ds]

I have bought a few machines online at sales that I could not attend , so I’m a fan of online sales , there is a monthly sale here that takes floor bids and online bids , so it’s the best of both worlds .

 

[icanshootwell]

slow internet here, drives me mad, don,t think i would over pay to much on line either. If your at a sale you can normally find some history about the item your interested in and get a better feel about it as well.

 

[Fergieman]

Online and if you want to buy something more expensive there is normally a viewing day before hand or if you contact the auctioneers you can normally arrange a private viewing. From a sellers point of view you can sell your item without it leaving the farm and you then only need to move it if it sells and makes the reserve.