The Annoyance of Selling Birds: Cheap People

[Poulets De Cajun]

I just sold a rooster for $206....

 

[Ec_Prokta]

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If so, can I have $130 of it?

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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What really gets to me is when you post your location and people either don't Mapquest/Google it themselves and ask numerous questions about how far you are from x, or if they just don't check and agree to buy them, then back out when they realise where you are.

That really gets my goat too. We include our city and state in the ad and then we get the sob story about meeting halfway and they reallllllly want such and such. Well hello, either come to us or look closer to home.

Oh, I know. They cant take 3 min to look up how far away they are.

 

[Henrietta23]

I have a FRIEND, the woman who got me interested in chickens in the first place, who has hinted that I should give her a few of my laying hens, but only the ones that hatched last year. She also wanted to give me her hens who had stopped laying so she wouldn't be paying to feed freeloaders. It was okay if I fed them and got no eggs for my troubles. She knows my hens live out their lives whether they give me eggs or not. Apparently that makes my yard the Old Folks' Home for her girls as well.

 

[sonew123]

wow-206$ for a rooster? does you chicken lay golden eggs? hahaha

 

[birdsofparadise]

Just to show how crazy people are, I just conducted a Farm Auction to raise money for a drug education program locally. Most of the chicks I sold went for $5 - $7. However, the Silver Wyandotteʻs got into a bidding war and we ended up getting $80 for just four of our week old chicks.

I wonder if the buyer is planning on using shredded dollar bills as bedding?

 

[sonew123]

I need to move!!!

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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In 2007 I ordered a bunch of buff laced and silver standard polish from McMurray. Well the sent me a free "surprise" chick, which ended up being a WC Black polish.

When we moved back to TX, I sold off all the birds at a little auction in Crowley, LA. I think the buffs and silver laced went for $17 to $20 a bird, but that one little WC Black hen ended up going for $75 by herself!

Two little old cajun men got into a bidding war and each was bound and determined to buy that hen for their wives to put in their gardens... LOL

 

[sonew123]

you are a lucky duck--ooops chick!!

my luck I would get 10 roo peanuts that kill my little flock!!!

 

[Rosalind]

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Yeah. Any time you deal with the public, you realize that there are a lot of interesting people in the world.

DH is a tattoo artist. He has quite the assortment of annoying customer stories. According to at least three customers per day, they can get it cheaper somewhere else, their friend's cousin's neighbor uses "better" inks, and they know their kanji is drawn correctly because the Chinese waiter at the Thai restaurant said it was Japanese for "brave dragon."