Greyhound Trader has now launched Phase 2 of their greyhound sales business with weekly online sales via their www.greyhoundtrader.com website. Launched this week, the concept of the online auctions is to allow people an alternative platform to selling and buying greyhounds via a 5 day online auction running from Tuesday 6pm to Sunday 6pm.
The inaugural online auction is live now and is due to finish at 6pm on Sunday 8th August. There is a good variety on there including Kilara Starlight (28.84 debut winning Feb 20 pup), Ballymac Biscuit (28.54) plus plenty of well bred saplings and pups.
James Corden explains “Bidding in our online auctions works via automatic bidding technology. The auctions all run in £25 increments and you are able to place a single bid, or alternatively set a maximum bid you are prepared to go to. Our system will bid to this set amount against any others bids until your maximum bid is reached. However, if no one else bids against you then the automatic bidding system will keep your lowest possible bid and you will be the successful purchaser, making it the most buyer friendly platform possible. For example with a greyhound priced at £1000 you can set your maximum bid to £1500 and your first bid will be £1000. If someone comes in and sets their limit to £1100, you remain the leading bidder but at £1125 due to the automatic bidding system. If no one bids more, you will win at £1125 but if someone sets their maximum bid to £1600, then you are no longer the highest bidder until a new bid is placed.”
Nathan Corden says “The concept allows for sellers in both Ireland and the UK to advertise their greyhounds free of charge and could work particularly well if an owner has a greyhound which is not particularly suited to a track and is looking to sell it to another owner at a more suitable track. James has worked tirelessly over the past few months with the website developers to get this off the ground and I hope the industry can embrace this new platform.”
