best sites for advertising horse for sale?

[pennyh]

i've been helping my friend write an ad for her horse she wants to sell

she had advertised him previously on horsemart , ad now expired , she had lots of enquiries/emails but nothing came of them ( i tend to think there are lots of browsers & certainly some timewasters use horsemart )

so , my recommendations were horsequest & H&H of course , she is reluctant to pay for a magazine ad in H&H ( not an expensive horse ) & i think its the same price on H&H net advert as horsequest

<font color="blue"> question </font> has anyone used both? which do you think is most effective? &amp; do you think its worth the extra for an ad in H&amp;H magazine? (about £145 cheapest H&amp;H ad compared to £35 net)

thankyou!

 

[isabella]

i haven't used either

got loads of enquires on freeads(free)
www.thehorseexchange.com was really good (and free)
www.stabletalk.co.uk i got a few people contact me (again free)

i think it depends what type of horse you are trying to sell

 

[TGM]

I would either choose Horsequest OR a H&amp;H magazine ad. I wouldn't bother with an H&amp;H web only ad, as the site is pretty hopeless for potential vendors to use. I know when we were looking we abandoned looking at the H&amp;H site, due to its limitations. We did, however, browse the printed ads in Horse &amp; Hound magazine.

 

[lilpinkdonkey4]

TGM what limitations did you encounter with the H&amp;H site?

 

[Befney3]

When I was looking I also found H&amp;H site hard work. I found Horsemart easiest as I could put in a more specific search criteria than most other sites.

 

[TGM]

[ QUOTE ]
TGM what limitations did you encounter with the H&amp;H site?

[/ QUOTE ] The search function is really restrictive - we were looking for a 14-14.2 hander, but the search filter only lets you choose a really wide band - ie 14 - 16 hands! Made it really difficult to find what we were looking for.

 

[MagicMelon]

I wouldn't put in H&amp;H magazine TBH and I despise the Horsequest website! I'd tend to put an advert on www.horses-sales.com, its £5 (I think) for a text ad and £10 (it was when I advertised earlier in the year anyway!) for a photo ad. Sold a few horses through it. Otherwise, if no luck ther then Id put an advert in Horse Deals magazine.

 

[BeckyD]

When I was looking to buy my horse earlier this year I eventually gave up with all the other sites and only used Horsemart for searching for them, as it's easily the best site to navigate around (IMO).

 

[tagalog]

horsemart is really easy to search for horses in your area. I sold my horse in 1 day though from horsequest.

 

[Boxers]

I would agree with that. Horsemart is easy to use and you can choose lots of different criteria to find what you want.

I hated horsequest. You have to trawl through load and loads of unsuitable ones to find the ones you might like. For instance if you want a 14.2 all rounder, you have to look in pony club ponies, show jump poines, native ponies etc, etc, etc.

So user unfriendly

 

[IsabelleJ]

I loved Horsequest WHEN people put where in the country they were from! Found my boy on Horsemart, but H&amp;H and Horsequest were my first places to look.

Isabelle