Adverts: good pictures or doesn't matter what pictures?

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Hi all :D
Recently have been just window shopping and looking at ponies and horses, and i seem to come across a lot of adverts that have very bad photos! It really annoys me! How can you expect someone to buy your £8000 horse, that you claim jumps 1.40 tracks, but put up no evidence of that? Or say that its nicely schooled but only picture of it schooling is very blury? I have come across so many adverts like that, with big prices and horrible pictures! One was advertising an SJ horse, young horse to be brought on etc etc, around the 8k mark, but the only non blury decent photo of it was the shot of its head, which isn't really going to help a potential buyer decide whether or not that horse is nice. The other photos were either blury and from the distance or slighly blury of it jumping but from the back so all you could see is its bum.
Does anyone else get annoyed by that or is it just me?
Rant over :D
 
I must confess, the pic I've used on my advert isnt great as it was taken from a film on the only day we could get pics which wasn't going to drown my camera! Though he isn't £8000
 
yes its silly.
An priced horse should have Atleast one decent picture.
A side on with horse stood up square.
Then if horse specialises in something the show evidence of it.
Its the horse in the flesh at a trial that has got to be liked by a buyer but decent pictures and advert will get them there in the first place!
 
Good quality pictures are the key to selling on-line and video if being sold as SJ/Dressage.

I also window shop and have seen some dreadful adverts. If I'm going to travel to view I'd like to see him/her worked before I buy. :-)

One pet hate is rider laying over horse hatless or todlers put on top.
 
It really bugs me too! I did, however, realise how little photos I had when we came to sell my old ponies so now the camera comes everywhere with us!
 
Grrr toddlers and hatless people on horses bug me too! I agree that you may not have that many photos but surely if you're selling a pricey horse, you can at least take 2 decent jumping/dressage photos even if its just a single jump/schooling session in the school, thats better than a blurry/bum/far away/ all 3 picture :rolleyes:
EDT: and it only takes 2 minutes to stand your horse up square on a flat surface and take a snap of that so people have an idea of its confo :)
 
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I won't look at a horse without a photo.

With photos I expect at minimum a decent full body shot. Why sell a horse that's great at jumping and stick a photo of its head, or bombproof in traffic and get a photo drowned in a rug.
Photos and if possible a link to a short vid showing key points.

I also can't abide a 100% amazing... Til you turn up and it rears it's way to the schooling paddock and then broncs it's way round a circle, can't hack alone and then want you to hop on! I like to know and preferably see the worst behaviour. If that's hidden, even if I don't mind it, I won't touch as they've already lied to you.
 
I'm looking at the moment and just about refuse point blanc to enquire about a horse if someone can't be arsed to post at least one decent photo. (If they can't be bothered presenting their horse to their best then I can't be bothered taking time out of my day to chase them) Takes all of a few minutes to take a couple of photos and most phones have a decent camera on these days if lack of camera is the alleged excuse... I'd also expect a ridden horse to have at least one ridden photo else I get suspicious
 
Al's got a gorgeous little mare in to sell atm, who we are collecting as many photos and videos of her in action as possible to avoid this. She's a bit classy, so we need to ensure everyone can see that!

In a video, what would everyone want to see? We're thinking a dressage test, some schooling flat/ jump clips, a SJ round and videos of her jumping XC things like ditches/ water/ skinnies, at the level she competes at?
 
I also hate pics that blatantly prove the ad is lying. If you want to persuade people your horse is getting double clears at disco, with potential to go further, then don't post pics of it trailing a foreleg over a 1' upright. Likewise describing a horse as being professionally schooled, then posting a pic of some numpty riding it overbent with its hocks in a different county. Or 'ideal first ponies' with running martingales, a flash & kimblewick, & the pony with its ears in the face of the jockey. They annoy me cos I just think 'liars'.
 
There seems to be a trend on my local horsey fb group to put up ads with silly pictures, fail to sell, then readvertise repeatedly whilst whining that no one has bought and what a shame as it must go and is SO amazing....

Ah yes, the photo of a girl stood on its bum whilst it looks mighty downtrodden, and the one of it taking off miles away from a jump, ears pinned back whilst left behind rider socks it in the gob are REAL selling points... :rolleyes: and, no, if you 'montage' them all together it also won't help. In fact, that makes it worse.

A side on shot and a photo or two of it being ridden (over a fence and on flat ideally) are adequate IMO.
 
Completely agree. When I was looking there were so few with decent photos. Surely if you want a few grand the least a seller could do was take some decent photos.

Would you sell anything else without decent photos? A house? Something on eBay? Then why is it ok to put an awful photo up of a horse??

There's no excuse. If you don't have any decent ones, go take some decent ones.
 
AprilBlossom said:
There seems to be a trend on my local horsey fb group to put up ads with silly pictures, fail to sell, then readvertise repeatedly whilst whining that no one has bought and what a shame as it must go and is SO amazing....

Ah yes, the photo of a girl stood on its bum whilst it looks mighty downtrodden, and the one of it taking off miles away from a jump, ears pinned back whilst left behind rider socks it in the gob are REAL selling points... :rolleyes: and, no, if you 'montage' them all together it also won't help. In fact, that makes it worse.

A side on shot and a photo or two of it being ridden (over a fence and on flat ideally) are adequate IMO.
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Exactly. On a group I am on some one has "desperately" been trying to sell "horses between 3-16 years, 13.2-16hh, some backed some not". No photos no actual info yet they post this several times a week. :confused:

This was the only photo on the ad for my mare. I actually only went to see her because of her breed and I was in the area anyway!



At the viewing I took this among others:


The mind boggles why folk don't bother.
 
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If you were going to sell a car you would get off your backside and go and take some so why wouldn't you do the same with a horse? It wouldn't take much to grab a friend and a camera and put the horse through it's paces!

You should try looking on Done Deal! They don't even bother grooming the animal and some photos are so far away across a bog field that you really wonder if that is an indication of how good it is to catch!
 
I also wont look at an ad if there is no photo. Videos are great but I watched one advertising a horse at advanced medium level for a lot of money and all it showed was the horse trotting a 20m circle on each rein! What is the point??!!!
 
Lolo said:
Al's got a gorgeous little mare in to sell atm, who we are collecting as many photos and videos of her in action as possible to avoid this. She's a bit classy, so we need to ensure everyone can see that!

In a video, what would everyone want to see? We're thinking a dressage test, some schooling flat/ jump clips, a SJ round and videos of her jumping XC things like ditches/ water/ skinnies, at the level she competes at?
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A thing I really what to see in videos is the horse walking and trotting straight towards the camera and away from the camera and the horse without a saddle standing side on from the front and from behind.
And of course what you have mentained above.
 
I would not even look at an advert with no photo, there is no excuse for it EVERYONE has a camera and if you don't then a close relative/friend would!!

I hate blurry photos, ad's with only head shots, people standing on the horses back etc.

I've seen ridiculous adverts with 'xxxxxxxxx' on the end with blurry picture and some stupid 'edit' picture with the horse jumping through a heart with stars all around it. That irritates me.

Ideal photos in an ad would be good un-blurry confo shots of the horse standing up straight and if the horse is sold as a competitive show jumper then a decent picture of said horse jumping at a decent height

Same for a dressage horse there should be GOOD pictures of said horse schooling and for 'good in traffic happy hackers. there should be a picture of said horse hacking on the roads in traffic! Its not rocket science.
 
Lolo said:
Al's got a gorgeous little mare in to sell atm, who we are collecting as many photos and videos of her in action as possible to avoid this. She's a bit classy, so we need to ensure everyone can see that!

In a video, what would everyone want to see? We're thinking a dressage test, some schooling flat/ jump clips, a SJ round and videos of her jumping XC things like ditches/ water/ skinnies, at the level she competes at?
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If she's good to hack maybe a short clip of riding her down a busy ish road with traffic? Could you try and ask a really nice farmer to drive past in a tractor to show she's good with farm traffic :)
 
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