BUYING & SELLING/SWAPING OF BIRDS AT "POOPS"
It has come to my attention that there is a bit of confusion in regards the different methods of aquiring poultry at POOPS 2010.
some folks are under the impression that there isn't or won't be a traditional swap at this years POOPS, this not true. People are definitly encouraged to swap birds in the traditional manner as we have had in the past, you are most certainly welcomed to make pre-arranged sales. post what you will have for sale or trade and deal away, I may have not been as clear as I could have been in previous post regarding the swap, My appologies.
What I was attempting to do was to make available to buy various poultry breeds to the folks who attend without having made any pre-arranged deals on birds. Last year we had well over 125 people attend 2009 POOPS and they told me they thought there would be birds for sale, this is because as they were looking for birds to buy, most of the stock was already sold. That was also one of the reasons for having the auctions, so that these folks could at least attempt to buy birds that way. I was trying to encourage ours members to bring some birds that will be open for sale in any of the three methods.
Our POOPS events were envisioned as a way for all of our members to get together and have fun in a variety of ways in regards to the buying / selling and swapping of poultry. I was trying to avoid having folks arrive and be looking for birds to buy and then not finding any for sale, I know that some people do not want to bring any unsold birds to POOPS for fear of having to bring them back home, hence the 2 different auctions. I have invited several people who normaly buy & sell large numbers of birds frequently to attend and perhaps take extra birds off members hands if they don't sell and are placed in the auctions.
I was also trying to avoid having our swap at POOPS turn into just a delivery point for pre-arranged sales and have a vast number of our membership left out in the cold in the buying / selling process. So I hope you can now see what I am trying to do here, which is the very difficult task of trying to please 200 very demanding members, who sometimes want things done just for them instead of trying to make this event an event for all and not just the selected few. I would certainly love to have someone else take over this task of pleasing everybody but there are never any takers willing to invest the endless time and effort !!!.
So for those of you who are confused perhaps this post will clarify any misconceptions, please feel free to read this post as often as nessesary so the wrong idea doesn't get posted and cirrculated.
AL
