Advert Photos that make you wonder

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I'm not going to link to an advert I have just looked at, as I don't want to offend anyone, but I do have to ask myself 'what where they thinking?' with regards to some of the photos people post.

In this ad, there were a series of photos taken either at dusk or just after dark. The (very nice) horse had a bridle but no tack and a teenage female rider sitting bareback (the horse, not the teenager) in what appeared to be her pyjamas.

I have also seen the usual blurry jumping pics and another today of the horse and riders head that was all pixelated.

Selling horses is hard, especially in the present market, you'd think people would do themselves a favour and take a couple of really good photos wouldn't you? Erm, no.

Horsey people...weird lot. :D
 
I often think this. Just recently I have seen pics of horses lying down, photos which are obviously out of date, some by a couple of years. Photos of just a head over the door, photos of horses in rugs/flyrugs (wouldn't THAT put a prospective buyer off?), photos where you can't see the horse properly for various reasons i.e. behind a gate/ other side of a massive field/ behind another horse. Oh and the number of ads that apologise for the quality of the photos! Why can't people take the time and trouble to take photos specially for the ad, one with a rider dressed properly in hat, jodhpurs/breeches, boots and jacket and one with no tack, stood up properly. I certainly don't want to see someone standing on the horse's back and there's no point in showing me a toddler sitting on a 16hh while someone holds a lead-rein!
 
I know, some pictures are really bad! LOL
I was looking on on all the sites yesterday and there was one photo of a man in a vest, tracksuit bottoms and no hat sitting bareback on a horse who was hollowing its back, with its nose up high, and the neck was almost ewe shaped in the photo. The description of the horse sounded reasonable, but WTF use that picture? I think they were asking nearly £4k for the horse!

The same horse being ridden properly would have put a whole new light on the advert.
 
Oh yes, then there was another advert I saw, where the photo was taken of the horse as a 5 year old, and the horse is now 9. There were apoligies in the ad about how the photo doesn't actually represent what the horse currently looks like any more. LOL
 
I believe wearing your pyjamas whilst going about your daily business is regarded as somewhere trendy with the youth of today. Cant figure out for the life of my why though lol
 
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Oh yes, then there was another advert I saw, where the photo was taken of the horse as a 5 year old, and the horse is now 9. There were apoligies in the ad about how the photo doesn't actually represent what the horse currently looks like any more. LOL
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PMSL, so they'd have been better off with no photo at all, or maybe a really nice picture of somebody else's horse, or a donkey on Weston beach :confused:
 
& the ones where the background resembles a scrapyard, or where the horse is stood in front of a tree so that it either looks like it has antlers or five legs!
 
Lol - I was in the BP garage the other morning and a girl came in wearing PJs, slippers and a dressing gown!! I was expecting her to walk across the road to a house, but when I drove out of the garage she was about 200 yds along the road and still walking!

I saw an ad the other day on horsemart for a 2 month old foal, and the foal was being put over a jump!! Obviously anyone looking to buy a youngster would steer clear knowing that chances are it's joints would be shot by the age of 4!
 
The best one that I've seen recently was someone trying to sell a 13.2hh gelding and the picture was of 6 ponies with riders standing in a row (taken from a distance)- nowhere in the ad did they mention which pony they were advertising! How can you buy a pony when you had no idea what it looked like, it certainly makes you wonder.
 
I saw one a little like that yesterday, with two horses one standing in front of the other, the one for sale was almost completely obscured by it's field mate
 
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