>I am an antler buyer here
>in Oregon and yeah, antler
>prices have plateaued and have
>started to go down in
>many places. It has been
>a slow but steady increase
>the last several years but
>this is the first year
>that prices were not up
>and it hasn't taken long
>for them to go down.
>I told several guys to
>get rid of their stashes
>but of course they didn't
>listen, now they wish they
>had sold
Myself, I'm
>currently a little hesitant to
>buy a big 200 and
>300 pound piles if I
>don't have a place to
>sell them right away because
>I know that if prices
>keep dropping too far, I'm
>stuck losing money, potentially alot
>of money. That said, I
>would say sell now, you
>can still get a good
>price for them, prices may
>stabilize yet but I can't
>see them going up at
>all from where they are
>now. Most likely they are
>on the way down for
>a while. If we lose
>the Asian market, we could
>be looking at $5 per
>pound for browns again.
That would be awesome!!!