Annoying people when you're trying to sell a horse...

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Honestly, how many times do you need to tell someone that a horse is for sale NOT LOAN before they get the bleein' message. I get it occasionally, but horse I am selling at the moment has so many people asking and I am seriously losing the will to live.

Have one person sending 4-5 messages a day asking again and again. I have now told her to stop or she will be reported for harrassment.

Anyone else finding this?
 
Constantly. Loan term loan, Loan with a view to buy (at their yard), swap, share but never 'can I buy'!

I'm loosing my mind over the amount of 12.3hh 4 year old 'bombproof' cobs im being offered in exchange for my 14.2hh 6 year old mare.
 
Haha its a minefield isn't it. I did an ad for the owner of a horse I had previously had on loan. He had bucked me off for the last time and I sent him back, I was sure it was the saddle causing issues so we agreed that he would be sold from the field as she didn't want to spend any more on him (her choice, he was basically the type that needed starting again in a competitive home after his winter break), I was inundated with people asking about loans and coming to try him etc, plenty of novices with a death wish even though I specified he needed someone experienced, I kept saying sorry there is no tack he is being sold from field hence price. He did sell eventually bless him!

I also notice that every other ad gets someone saying 'did this horse used to*live in xxx place'... It's a bay horse about 16 hands, it never is the one they're looking for!
 
No, not called Georgia. It is a girl that has ridden him a few times and he has just sent her confidence soaring. She was a novice that went from never wanting to sit on a horse again after a nasty fall at a riding school to confidently jumping 2'3 within two weeks. He is a star and she knows it...but her nights out and new cars and designer clothes come first...so she has now been told if she wants him that much, prioritise and buy him by sacrificing other luxuries, but don't expect the owner to sacrifice a sale just be she wants to have her cake and eat it.
 
I have the opposite problem, she is for loan, and NO, I won't sell her. I think some people get the idea in their head that because you don't ask for money, then you will sell the horse cheap if you got an offer.

I want a forever home, but i will not sell. And I understand why people would want to buy, but she isn't for sale. Simples.
 
brilliant thread,

advertised my 2 year old welsh recently (no longer for sale)

was asking 450 due to excellent breeding, had lots of interest from erm *****

1 in particular i had to block...... can i pay him up? i will need to save up to buy tack and feed and cant afford to buy him. my daughter who is 7 will be doing him as she knows what to do!!

honestly i would rather keep him than sell to an idiot like that... i did reply and ask how she intended to worm, farrier work and vets bills! then told her not to reply and blocked her.
 
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