Online experience for sacrificed cattle :
This year I made the cattle purchase from Bengal meat. They put up the list 1 month before Eid. You can check weight and short video along with a bunch of pics. Once chosen place your order using credit card.
But, the credit cards they accepted weren't the one I was using. Therefore had to travel to their sales center. They punched in the data and swapped the card. Done.
As usual, you can provide upto 7 names for whom this sacrifice should be performed. You can opt to take the bowel too. They will clean it, chop it and deliver in packet.
They promised 1st day slaughter. But second day delivery of the meat. And they did as promised. I was sent a SMS at 1 pm that the sacrifice has been made.
Delivery was made on the second day of Eid. It was promised before 4 pm, but they delivered it at 7 pm. All packed and in a air conditioned van. Not much instruction was need for the driver to locate my home.
Packing was all in sealed plastic. Meat chopped into pieces. Two or three large whole pieces in case you have other plans. And those plastics packs were repacked into cardboard boxes and bound before delivery. Liver, heart, brain delivered un chopped, but packed in sealed plastic as usual. And as for leg bones, those were still there. All meat was chilled, but not frozen.
They also provided a total calculation of the weight. Cattle weight, meat weight, skin and thrown away parts weight. Everything adding upto the total weight of the cattle.
As of the skin, they didn't deliver it, but provided a refund of 800/= as its price.
The good points :
Hassle free. I didn't have to visit the cattle market, walk all day and haggle with the sellers. Could buy it well ahead of time. Whereas in markets, the seller won't sell his cattle until just before Eid day. You don't have to worry about the cattle health, a big relief. The cutting and chopping were professional and dirt free. Possibly machine cut. And the meat was pre chilled. which avoided rotting of warm meat that generally occurs when those are freezed up at home.
And considerations :
The whole process was 15% more costly than doing it yourself the conventional way. And some people always prefer to do it the conventional way on religion ground, that's fully understandable.
That was from my experience.