grizzle_hen

this thread is now locked and anyone interested in these birds should pm crazy pigeon boy

me and Richard would be happy to help with this whenever we can

it's normaly around feburary/march time

The current record is 147 August last year

The idea of having professional sellers is purely for those that make a living out of selling pigeons, and its hard to put a price cut off on this to say yes you are a professional seller, but superstar you are not making a living out of selling pigeons, so would not be classified as a professional seller

The £20 paid by a professional seller is per year and a private seller may not sell as much as £300 worth of birds per year (and if they are then they should really classify themselves as professional). I'll check with Richard when he gets back in (gone to help with the pigeons coming back in)

It's ok, I typed it up wrong. Its meant to read, a donation of 10% of what you sold, so £3 from a £30 sale. And this donation can be via paypal or cheque and can be done say at the end of the year when you've had a few sales.

Donations/Fees As a seller you are required to give a bit back for every sale you make through Pigeonbasics - it's only fair - Private Sellers - upon the receipt of each successful sale you are requested to send a donation of the amount your item was sold for. OR You make a donation to our charity auctions held at various times of the year. - Professional Seller - before you are approved as a seller on Pigeonbasics a fee of £20 is to be made. This is a per year sum. If at any time during that year you sell more than £300 or 12 birds you will be required to make a donation of 10% of any subsequent sale (or donate to our charity auctions). Donations/Fees can be made through Paypal (to webmaster@pigeonbasics.com) or a cheque via the postman (PM for address).

Is the address for it: Oundle Rd Alwalton, Peterborough, PE2 6XE, United Kingdom +44 1733 234451

Remember that Amtrak has gone bust but don't let that stop you from selling, as there are many alternative pigeon courier services around for different parts of the country. Here is a list of them http://forum.pigeonbasics.com/m-1219929388/ If you know of anymore let me know. And maybe to help people, if you could state what part of the country your from, say Scotland, North East, Wales, etc it'll help people when looking at the for sale section Remember use this board for posting up any questions or anything related to selling

Amtrak have gone bust, see here http://forum.pigeonbasics.com/m-1219761937/ for details of other pigeon couriers and there are various topics on the notice board about amtrak, heres one of them http://forum.pigeonbasics.com/m-1219761937/

Edit to delivery by a pigeon courier relevant to the area sold too.

Here is a list of alternate pigeon couriers: Pigeon Express: E. HILL Mobile: 07912 947743 Web: http://www.pigeonexpress.co.uk Mail: info@pigeonexpress.co.uk Service open to all over UK on request Phantom Flyer: Roger Hughes Tel no: 01329 664436 Mobile: 077099 13131 Mail: phantomflyer@onetel.net areas covered - Beds, Berks, Cheshire , Derbys, East Sussex, Dorset, Glos, Hants, Herefordshire, Herts, Leics, Northants, Oxon, Salop, Somerset, Staffs, Surrey, Warwicks, West Midlands, West Sussex, Wilts & Worcs AM Deliveries/ Mike Ellesmere Port Cheshire CH65 4LX Tel no: 0151 355 1533 Fax no: 0151 355 1533 Mobile: 0775 2161 3399 Web: http://www.amdeliveries.com/ Mail: amdeliveries@hotmail.com J Cooper Logistics Ltd National Coverage except North of Scotland but includes Ireland. Tel no: 01352 735555 or 07709 123125 Web: http://www.jcooperlogistics.co.uk/ Catch the Pigeon - Andy Bridges (ex Amtrak) Tel no: 01623 440075 Mobile: 07731 649964 Covering Newcastle to Cumbria, South East to Bristol over a period of a week Pigeon Tracker Tel no: 01443 775 485 Web: http://www.pigeontracker.com/ Mail: info@pigeontracker.com Covers the UK Yorkshire Animal Ambulance Currently looking into delivering pigeons http://www.yorkshireaa.co.uk/index.htm Anyone interested should email suzanne@yorkshireaa.co.uk SPDS Covering Scotland Tel no: 01355 234807 Web: http://www.spds.co.uk/ Pigeon Courier Web: http://www.pigeoncourier.co.uk Mail: info@pigeoncourier.co.uk Tel no:01472 237716 Mobile:07725314932 Areas covered:Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, parts of Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire. UK Pigeon Couriers Web: http://WWW.UKPIGEONCOURIERS.CO.UK http://WWW.PIGEONCOURIERS.CO.UK Mail: info@UKpigeoncouriers.co.uk pigeoncouriers@aol.com Tel no: 0845 4093582 (local rate call) Mobile: 07900 571652 David Thornton Covering most of the UK JM Livefish & Aquaria Couriers Ltd Web: http://www.jmlivefishandaquariacouriers.co.uk Mail: jmcouriers@sky.com Tel no: 01823 322538 Mobile: 07716032470 Covering the UK, with runs to Scotland twice a month (1st and 3rd Thursday). Southern Pigeon Couriers (based in hampshire) Office : 02380703108 Mobile : 07852710430 E-mail mpgj@talktalk.net Web:www.southernpigeoncouriers.co.uk Cover Cornwall, Devon, South Wales, Powys, London, Kent, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk Please contact Peter & Michele Edwards If there are any more than need to be added please pm me.

It would be helpful if people could stop posting up details of pigeon couriers, as we'll (me and Richard) get a sticky post up of all their details, as it'll stop lots of double posting and make it easier to find their details

We'll get a sticky post of the current pigeon couriers around, probably on the notice board

Click on this link http://forum.pigeonbasics.com/c-fsc/ then click on become a seller

Once you've joined the pending sellers group, send me a pm with your details: Your Full Name Flying/Member Name Full Address Telephone number (and mobile if available) Email address Loft number (or other union information if loft numbers are not used) Whether you intend being a private or professional seller Then I'll approve you

I'm sorry but there is no need to nit-pick at everything, and anyway why would I want to disclose anyone's information? I'm just monitoring/moderating the sale section for Richard, the administrator, in effect he's the one keeping this information, so not just a member. If you have a problem with the conditions for the sale section then don't send me your details :-/

To be approved all the details are given to me, I then keep these details on file so that if there is a problem, or someone queries something about details I can deal with it. Also when posting up a bird for sale, people might not want to put there telephone number or address up for everyone to see (prank calls come to mind or if someone has a grievance with someone they have their details). But these details can be obtained by an interested party. So say I'm interested in a bird your selling and I wanted to ring you to ask some questions, I can pm grizzle hen and ask for those details.

Sounds like something that should be looked into if delivery companies can't deliver (as it were), maybe it could be linked with unions/clubs, but it'll obviously need alot of planning but you never know, maybe amtrak going bust is the push that fanciers need to do something about setting up a network

Looks like a network of fanciers will need to be set up then, there are plenty of people on here from all over the country

Yes, a donation of a bird is fine

If you wish to place an offer for this bird, either pm REDFOXKRAUTHS or reply to this thread

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Remember to pm me with the following details: - your full name - flying name - full address - telephone and mobile (if available) - email address - loft number or other union information if loft numbers are not in use - whether you intend to be a private or professional seller Then I can approve you as sellers