We ALL can be at this sale!
This coming Saturday is the Do-N-Joy Select Sale that will be held in Arlington, MN. Tony & Jeff Kohls of Do-N-Joy Holsteins, along with sale manager Alan Dykshorn of Dykshorn Dairy Sales, have assembled quite the line-up of heifers, cows and choices – click here to check out the online catalog. Arlington is located within a half hour of my family’s farm and many of the consignors on the sale are good friends of mine. So naturally I would love to be at the sale – but unfortunately I won’t be able to make it. But that doesn’t mean I can’t watch and participate online!
This sale marks the first live auction webcast with real time bidding provided by BovineBid.com. The mind behind BovineBid.com is Jason Lamoreaux and for any questions, the website says to contact him. So I called Jason this morning to learn more about the live auction webcast process and to see how I can watch the sale from my computer here in Hardwick, MN. Jason was very helpful and shared some great info with me – here’s what I learned!
BovineBid.com is a contract service for sales across the United States and North America. People interested in watching & bidding online during a live auction webcast with real time bidding, have to register for each individual sale. If you were to visit www.bovinebid.com today, you would see a promotion to sign up for the Do-N-Joy webcast. I went thru the registration process myself and it took less than one minute! Click here if you’d like to sign-up.
Jason highly recommends that people interested in watching and/or bidding during this sale should register by Friday, September 5th at 5 p.m. He recommends pre-registration so that the sale managers can approve you as a legitimate bidder prior to the start of the sale.
A high-speed Internet connection is recommended for watching the sale and it is required for bidding during a sale. Once the sale begins and the webcast begins to roll, the video and audio quality will be dependant upon your computer system and the speed of your Internet connection. In most instances, a high speed connection alone will ensure high quality video and sound. There will be NO delay from what is appearing at the sale to what you see and hear from your computer.
As each lot passes through the ring, your computer screen will display where the bids are coming from. If the bid is currently from someone at the sale, the screen will say “Floor” and indicate the current asking price. If a bid were to come from an online bidder, their bidder name and price will appear on the screen. An online bidder will know if they had the winning bid if after the auctioneer says “Sold!” they are the highest bid on the screen. It is the responsibility of each winning online bidder to make settlement with the sale management. This includes arranging trucking, verifying health papers and bill payment. For this sale, all winning bidders should contact Alan Dykshorn – (712) 441-0686. A 3% buyer’s premium will be billed to buyer from BovineBid.com for any purchases made online.
If at any time a viewer has a question, there is a real-time chat feature where they can type their question and it will be answered by a BovineBid.com staff member. Also, you can visit with Jason directly at (616) 822-0101. BovineBid.com will have two staff members on hand at the sale on Saturday.
In addition to the Do-N-Joy Select Sale, BovineBid.com is already scheduled to provide live auction webcast with real-time bidding for the Planet Holstein, Agriprize High Profile, Global Impact Red & White and Autumn Opportunity Sales in October.
A few key points I took away from my conversation with Jason…
- Interested bidders and sale viewers will need to register for each individual sale.
- A high-speed Internet connection will ensure the best live auction webcast experience.
- BovineBid.com is a super simple, user-friendly way to participate in sales when you can’t be there in person.
No, I won’t be at the sale this Saturday. But I can watch and participate online! I hope to see you online at the sale too!!
