What is an Alpaca Pen Sale?
Although pen sales can take on many forms, generally an alpaca pen sale is a means by which several alpaca owners and breeders bring their alpacas to a common location to be seen and sold to the public. One of the many benefits of this approach is that parties interested in seeing, learning about and perhaps purchasing an alpaca do not have to travel to several farms to see quality animals.
The animals showcased at an alpaca pen sale are either sold by private agreements between the buyer and the seller (breeder); or, alternatively can be purchased through a silent auction program. If the auction method is used, animals may have a “reserve” price, which is a base price to be met or exceeded before the animal will be sold.
Another potential benefit of a pen sale includes multiple farms joining together to offer animal “packages”, which allows an even greater variety of choice to a potential buyer. Finally, the breeders showcasing animals at the pen sale will be on hand to show their animals, answer questions and to provide any other information about alpacas their farm is offering for sale.
We hope that you will join us for the Cambridge Fiber Festival and Alpaca Pen Sale!
Specifics About the Cambridge Fiber Fair Pen Sale
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- Each alpaca will have a corresponding bid sheet on which bidders will write-in their bid.
- Bids will increase by set increments.
- Each bidder will be assigned a "bidder number" like a traditional auction.
- To increase your bid you will write your "Bidder Number" and your bid on the alpacas' "Bid Sheet".
- If you don't want to take the chance of losing an alpaca, then you may opt for the "Buy Now" price.
- You have until 3:00 pm to buy an alpaca at the "Buy Now" price.
- At 3:01 PM the "Buy Now" price is no longer valid and the alpaca has to be bought via silent auction bidding.
- Silent Auction bidding ends promptly at 4:00 PM
- Both the Opening Bid and Buy Now price are set by the seller of each alpaca.
- All sales are contracted between Buyer and Seller
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