Re: [AlpacaTalk] Let them eat cake.
Oh yes, I love alpacas is the brainchild of the leader of the old boy's
club. If you don't have $5k in addition to participating in the FRG and
Herdsire edition of Alpacas Magazine, forget it. And if you don't do
the FRG, you have to wait 45 days or something to buy leads at 3 times
the price that the breeders with deep pockets have to pay. That is the
most regressive pricing scheme, it really makes me bitter and angry.
Make the poor people pay 3 or 4 times as much as the rich guys! Ya!
To us little guys, it looks like "they" just want all the money and all
the business. So, I choose to participate in a different playground. I
do business with small, local breeders. I have contacts and
acquaintances across the country, and have actually done some business
cross-country, now that I think of it. :) And I prefer it that way.
Every animal I've sold is loved by its new family, as much as I've
loved them. I am so glad they weren't bought by some mega-farm where
they're identified by a number tag.
I haven't had much luck selling on AlpacaNation, I believe that they
could surely lower their rates for farm accounts by now. They rake in
so much money from all of those banner ads with weekly and monthly
rotations, and those ads are not cheap, even the cheap ones! I don't
know if AlpacaStreet is producing any better results. The best response
I get is from AlpacaMarket yahoo group. And that's free!
I keep saying the economy has got to improve at some point. :) Doesn't
it? And we can be sure that we will get new breeders thanks to
increased exposure from free things like the WSJ article.
Heather
On Nov 10, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Gary & Maryann Simpson wrote:
> Heather:
>
> Are you a member of I Love Alpacas?
> I called & it's like $5,000 a year. Is anybody else here on there?
> I was wondering if the benefit was worth the money.
> Also is anybody having any luck with Alpaca Street?
> I see a little traffic from there, but not that much.
> I'm less than a year into this, but I have some opinions.
> The main opinion is that the growth in the industry is going to
> come from new people, not existing farms.
> So marketing most anything except breedings to existing farms is
> not very effective.
>
> I have some ideas that I would like to get some feedback on, but
> would like to hear from some of the people here first on the above.
> Thanks,
> Gary Simpson
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