FH announced today that their March auction will be on line.

European and American buyers can enter Canada as long as they are vaccinated. They can inspect the goods in person.

It isn’t perfect buy it is better than nothing. Hopefully the Asian buyers can attend in person for the second sale in June.

BOHICA !!!!!

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I can’t wait!

That doesn’t sound good for the trapper with fur in the March sale.

At least some of the buyers can do in person inspection. Plenty of brokers in Canada and the US that can look at the goods for buyers that can’t be there in person. That is what a broker is paid to do.

While not ideal, better than no in person inspection.

Here is a link to the official FH announcement.

https://www.furharvesters.com/pdf/onlineauctionschedule.pdf

The way I read it, is that the COVID restrictions on travel are NOT Canadian restrictions but rather restriction in “other important fur buying countries”.

Read the announcement, do some research, decide for yourself.

It's a step in the right direction, for sure. Hopefully it will make a difference.

One month to go,looking forward to the sale,got a little fur there to guage the market.

Thank you for the update

THIS WAS IN THAT POST FROM FHA Buyers attending our inspection days are welcome to remain for the sale
days if they wish and do their bidding in our facility. WHAT DOSE THIS MEAN ?

That means that the buyers that remain at the FH facility will be bidding on line, just like the buyers that aren’t there in person. Only way to be fair.

The only advantage is that the buyers that are in North Bay will have looked at the goods in person.

Everyone bids on line - from North Bay to Beijing to Moscow, idaho.

Without restrictions EXCEPT if you're not vaccinated. If you are not vaccinated we will restrict the heck out of you!

LOL

Watch your comments Dirt ; joke or not about a certain disease.

This was a pretty short thread. I guess no one was too shocked that FHA will have another internet auction.

Personally, at this point, I believe FHA and buyers have adapted to internut sales. I remember when NAFA tried this years ago and it flopped. Other than the" Trust" issue internut sales make some level of financial sense. JMHO


Maybe the buyers can explain why internut sales are bad?

I agree that it makes sense in some respects. I do know it is hard to grade fur from pictures. But is the sample lot any better than a couple pictures? I can't say I have seen any internet sales that I thought were a big success every.

Internet sales are not good for the producer

Do you think fur brings less on a internet sale because of buyers not getting to see the samples? Is it some how different than a closed bid sale that a lot of the State sales use?

It’s time for a international fur auction on USA soil.
Maybe in Las Vegas we’re flights and rooms a little cheaper.
Or maybe outside of Chicago or upstate NewYork. Maybe they
can rent the old NAFA Facilites in Wisconsin. Ha ha. MD

My belief is they are less likely to have aggressive bidding due to not seeing the goods in person, do not have the same level of excitement as people in a room together and recently not as many brokers able to see the goods either. Then throw the lack of demand in general into the mix and it makes for lackluster sales.
Obviously this is just my opinion

As for sealed bid. Can’t compare the two scenarios as it’s not even close to the same.
Goods are being looked at in person. And you MUST put the highest bid you are willing to pay if you want something