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Originally Posted by Camdec
If this is the case it seems like a pretty strange way to buy pelts for the buyer. If a buyer is looking for a particular colour/quality/etc would they not want a bundle of fur that may be coming from a number of different producers? Ultimately, I’m thinking they don’t care where the fur comes from as long as each piece in the lot is the same in all graded ways.
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I think that I read that there were only 8 buyers at the auction so they wouldn’t be the end users and merely brokers. I’m thinking that they go around buying up fur and sorting them to sell to international buyers......or the big international buyers sort it. There were only 1300 coyote pelts in the auction, NAFA had 50K to 70K, hardly worth it to a big international buyer to attend.
But yeah, it does sound odd compared to what we’re used to at a big auction house like NAFA.