bad photos when selling a horse

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Would you bother to ring up about a horse whose ad has a rubbish photo? I wont ring up if the seller hasnt put any photo at all but not sure about a rubbish photo.
 
Im looking to buy a coloured horse, so i wouldn't bother to even read an ad that hasn't got a pic!
A bad one is better than no pic at all, but I do wonder what people are thinking when they take just a pic of their head.
 
I wouldn't, well not a really rubbish photo anyway. If you're going to sell something you should be presenting it in the best possible light, not a picture of the horse a mile out in the field wearing a rug facing away.
 
The photos that put me off the most are the bad ones that the sellers think are good. So I don't mind a terrible shot when I get the feeling they have to clue what a horser should look like or how to take a photo ... but when there are ten photos of an overbent horse or one dangling its legs over a jump, then I get concerned that these were the first choice of the seller and what must the horse look like the rest of the time!
 
[Would you bother to ring up about a horse whose ad has a rubbish photo?]

Yes of course, foolish not to :o)

Could be a diamond and people are missing out simply because they can't see past a grotty picture.

All I want from a photo is an idea of size, colour and whether it has a head and tail in the appropriate place and a leg at each corner, the rest I will decide for myself when I see it.

This mare is actually over 15h (chappy holding her is 6'7")
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and looks like this in the flesh:
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The foal was an ugly bug, but grew into herself and has turned out quite acceptable now.
 
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only_me said:
Yes, because hardly anyone knows how to stand a horse up correctly :)
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So what? That doesn't matter in the least.

You are viewing/buying the horse, not the sellers, their yard, experience or opinions;)

I have bought really nice animals out of junk infested backyards for a quarter of their advertised price, from people who can barely put a halter on, and think standing up is being upright :D

I love buying horses :)
 
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I think it depends on how far away the horse is and what is bad about the photos. If I was travelling a fair distance to see a horse I would want to have some indication that the horse is the sort I want, and if the ad showed a rubbish photo (blurred, horse with rug/boots on etc) then I would email and ask them to provide clearer photos/videos. If these could not be provided then I wouldn't waste my time or petrol money.
 
enfys said:
So what? That doesn't matter in the least.

You are viewing/buying the horse, not the sellers, their yard, experience or opinions;)

I have bought really nice animals out of junk infested backyards for a quarter of their advertised price, from people who can barely put a halter on, and think standing up is being upright :D

I love buying horses :)
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As in, yes, I would ring up about a horse - dosent matter so much about the photo, if you can see past it.
 
TGM said:
I think it depends on how far away the horse is and what is bad about the photos. If I was travelling a fair distance to see a horse I would want to have some indication that the horse is the sort I want, and if the ad showed a rubbish photo (blurred, horse with rug/boots on etc) then I would email and ask them to provide clearer photos/videos. If these could not be provided then I wouldn't waste my time or petrol money.
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:) Of course, that goes without saying.
Nobody with an iota of sense goes without a conversation of some sort and a bunch more pictures to see a horse that isn't close by:)
 
I guess it depends on what you could and couldn't see from a bad photo. I've seen some pictures with ads that are really awful but some wouldn't put me off seeing the horse, others would.
 
Another factor is how many other suitable horses there are advertised at the time - if there are ten horses suitable-sounding horses advertised in your budget and in your locality, and nine have several clear, good photos, and one has a blurred photo of the horse in a rug in the field, then no, you probably wouldn't ring up about the ad with the poor photo - at least not until you had thoroughly investigated and discounted the other nine first!

On the other hand, if there was only one horse that sounded suitable and the photo was poor, then you are much more likely to enquire about it, despite the photo!
 
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