A plea to all sellers out there from a frustrated buyer

hollyandivy123 said:
can i also amend to my plea to sellers........................................ when you are talking to a new buyer on the phone that has just rang up not to rant about the other people that have seen the horse and that they are time wasters before putting the phone down on the a possible buyer!:rolleyes:
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Eh? That's a good one! Some people really don't seem to want to sell their horse! One I emailed about has just had it's ad renewed-if she'd replied, I'd have probably bought it.

Makes you wonder why they bother advertising!!
 
A friend was quite embarrassed to view a horse where the seller sobbed half the time she was showing him to them! :( She wasn't being forced to sell, it was her choice but they didn't quite know how to react!
 
Well I ended up buying the foal that was advertised with only breed and gender mentioned in the ad ;)

After emailing back and forth with his breeder for info, I looked up his breeding, arranged to see him, took three knowledgable and (meant to be) sensible friends with me.

Went back with his breeder to have coffee, discuss his paperwork etc, before I even asked how much he was.

I'd had a price in my head, based up on stud book recommendations, but he ended up being almost 4x as much!

I still ended up buying him though... His temperement, attitude, coformation and breeding are all worth the extra money :)

To the OP, I hope you find your dream horse soon - without any further hassle ;)
 
For me P.O.A. stands for 'Put Off Already', I mean what is the point ? people need to know & if you want to sell you will have to tell. (or do you vary the price for some obscure reason ?)
 
I've phoned up a few POA adverts in the past, so why do I always feel REALLY guilty when I have to ask the price. Even worse when the price is way, way out of my reach, I struggle to know what to say. Inferiority complex I think!
 
I totally agree on the 'where are you' ad suggestion. I've rung up about several cracking horses that turned out to be a ten hour round trip away.

And its not just that initial trip - if you factor in the second visit accompanied by more knowledgeable mate, vetting and collection you could easily spend £500 on fuel and accommodation.

I should really team up with someone who has the same shopping list as me but lives in the South East as I've seen several posts on the forum complaining that all the nice horses for sale are up North!
 
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POLLDARK said:
For me P.O.A. stands for 'Put Off Already', I mean what is the point ? people need to know & if you want to sell you will have to tell. (or do you vary the price for some obscure reason ?)
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This! It's a really bad marketing ploy . . . EVERYone has a budget - even the likes of WFP, etc. . . . and tbh I'd rather use my time looking at those I know are within my means . . . if I exhaust them then I may ring up about a POA . . . but I find it very off putting.

And as for varying the price, I had one guy tell me that if I bought the horse NOW, I could get it for two grand less than if I waited a month or two until it was fit and competing . . . funnily enough I saw said horse advertised a month or two later advertised for two grand less than he'd quoted me. Hmmmm.

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supagran said:
I've phoned up a few POA adverts in the past, so why do I always feel REALLY guilty when I have to ask the price. Even worse when the price is way, way out of my reach, I struggle to know what to say. Inferiority complex I think!
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I know what you mean, but why should we feel guilty? It's simple economics . . . I have X amount to spend and need to know whether my X will buy your horse.

But, yes, it can be hard saying "sorry, I can't stretch to that . . . "

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I used to be put off phoning POA because chances are it would be out of my budget and I'd feel embarrassed. Then I thought "screw that, I'll just phone up and then tell them if its too expensive", its their loss getting pointless mither. Anyway it turns out that often POA horses aren't always expensive and or over-priced. :)
 
Transporting a horse from Aberdeen down south is no problem at all. I've travelled mine 11 hours each way to go to events down south and would think nothing of purchasing a horse from England if its exactly what I want (I have bought one from Wales). I just make sure I get video footage of the horse prior to any trip down south, so you can SEE that it jumps whatever level etc. but then TBH I'd probably ask to see this footage anyway even if it was local. If more people did this, less would turn up to find horses not as described... I had someone fly up from London last year to look at my horse, I'd provided them with all his BE/BSJA records, millions of action photos and video footage so they knew he was worth coming to see in the first place. Dont know why more people dont do this!
 
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