The waiting has begun!  We have a commodity of fur and there is a very high demand for that fur.  The local buyers are now beginning to get antsy to purchase those furs from us and have made some “not so reasonable” offers of late.

The word is out on the latest fur sale up in Oregon where the average price for their 8,000 or so muskrats went for $10.47.  That means some rats sold in the $9 range, while others sold in the $12 range.  We think our rats are of a quality to classify them in the upper range.  So, if you are a speculating buyer for our rats this year and are reading this, take note:  We would rather freeze them than give them away, for a price that makes you $2 or more p/hide.  Get reasonable with us and you can have them.

The big buyers are also looking closely at the belly fur this year, which means if we have a damaged fur where the damage is all on the back of the fur, the belly is still clean and in high demand.  The color of our furs believe it or not is on the “blue” side of white on the bellies.   Extra Large furs in the 15 plus inch range, perfectly skinned, fleshed and stretched.  They just don’t get any better.

And so, to you who are just reading this because you like to read Bears Butt dot Com, this doesn’t mean a whole heck of a lot.  Not even much entertainment.  I’ll let you know when the selling is all done just how we did.  And believe me, (this is the entertaining part) the ones doing the buying will NOT like it when I advertise on here what the price they paid was!  HA!!  Why?  Well, because since the beginning of time, fur buyers always have had the desire to buy at the lowest price they can and then turn around in a short period of time and sell those same furs for a much higher price.  In todays times, they have recently been buying furs for extremely low prices (comparatively) and will reap the benefits of prices at or higher than the recent Oregon sale.

So, let’s just say they bought 100 furs last December from some trapper who wanted to have some Christmas money and they bought those furs at a price of $4 each.  The trapper did not feel too bad about getting $400 for his hard earned pelts.  And of course the buyer would have spun a tale about fur prices might be as high as $6 in the Spring, but probably wouldn’t be that high and that they were gambling just parting with $4 etc. etc. etc.   When all the time they know they will far exceed $9 each for pelts damaged or not.  Do you see the deal here?  That is why the old saying holds so very true:  “You catch the fur.  The fur buyer catches you”!

Well, we don’t feel like we want to step into a full on hind leg catch.  Maybe we just want to take a chance on loosing a toe nail this year!  We are clearly knowledgeable about the buyers needing to make some money on the deal.  Bring us your best and final offer right up front and let’s quite pussy footing around!

Bears Butt

April 2, 2012