Best way to advertise horses…

JumpTheMoon1 said:
Dont pay to place any adverts.Preloved is worth a try - make it clear in BIG letters no dealers etc or timewasters.
People ignore all that anyway but you could get lucky with a sale.
Nothing to lose give it a try.
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I don’t agree. I think preloved tends to be cheap horses with issues /,small or young.

If selling decent riding horses and looking to avoid timewasters, I’d pay the small horsemart/ Horsequest fee. Loads of good photos snd videos, good description.
 
I have known a few sell via FB but not via one of the sales pages.

Owner puts up video, photos, wordy bit and approx "carrots" (to avoid it being picked up as a sale by FB admin) and friends share to their friends. I found my youngster that way when his owner had said on her personal page he needed his own human and a friend tagged me.

It's probably harder work than placing a formal for sale advert but more chance of avoiding dealers and people who only have £1k to spend

Don't rush into selling though if you're doing it off the back of being badly let down. Any other way of getting money back off the livery?
 
I'm looking and look at all advertising sites including FB but prefer horsequest . Also sold an older Connie on horse quest day the ad came out a few weeks ago.
 
BallyJ said:
Ahh! I'd completely missed that! - this has made the website so much easier. Thank you!! :D clearly a blonde moment!! :eek:
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You can also set up alerts so you get an email every morning of new adverts that fit your criteria. Although it does seem to miss one or two. A friend sent me an ad for the perfect horse. He matched all my criteria but somehow hadn't come in on the email so I missed it and by the time I'd contacted them he'd sold.
 
Horsequest every time.
H& H doesn't seem to get the same traffic.
Horsemart tends to be older/younger/broken warmbloods or Shires. There are also many old adverts with no dates on (so you don't realise that the ads are months old and the horses long gone
Whikr doesn't seem to have many. Don't like its functionality either
Right Horse Right Home has its heart in the right place but misses out on the many people who aren't prepared to pay to access the basic information
Preloved has overpriced cheap horses, or a lot of youngsters

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spacefaer said:
Horsequest every time.
H& H doesn't seem to get the same traffic.
Horsemart tends to be older/younger/broken warmbloods or Shires. There are also many old adverts with no dates on (so you don't realise that the ads are months old and the horses long gone
Whikr doesn't seem to have many. Don't like its functionality either
Right Horse Right Home has its heart in the right place but misses out on the many people who aren't prepared to pay to access the basic information
Preloved has overpriced cheap horses, or a lot of youngsters

IMHO ?
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Totally agree with all of this !

However I sold mine easily on Facebook for just under £10k. Did have to put up with hundreds of messages.
I bought from a local dealer recently but Horsequest and Facebook (Eventing page) were my go to places.
 
Having recently used HQ to advertise a horse I had nothing but time wasters. About 5 enquiries (via text) all asking if horse was still for sale…(she wouldn’t be advertised if she wasn’t)…..I replied ‘yes’ and never heard from anyone again! Think there are timewasters everywhere!
 
We actually got our pony from a Facebook ad...the lady had about 70+ messages about him but only 4 made it to a physical viewing stage and 2 didn't end up turning up...so I'd say you might get lucky as we did but there are a lot of people who have zero interest in actually buying a horse on Facebook!
 
Puzzled said:
Having recently used HQ to advertise a horse I had nothing but time wasters. About 5 enquiries (via text) all asking if horse was still for sale…(she wouldn’t be advertised if she wasn’t)…..I replied ‘yes’ and never heard from anyone again! Think there are timewasters everywhere!
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When we were looking a year or so back there were loads of ads on HQ where the horse had been sold but the ad was still up so that seems like an eminently sensible first question to ask ..
 
BallyJ said:
I'm currently looking/keeping my eyes on the market and can't use Horsequest.
I feel like I'm missing lots of adverts and don't like that I can't filter by height.

I really like Whickr, its simple and straight forward
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Would like to retract this statement! I've responded to/contacted 3 different adverts through Whickr and haven't had a reply from any of them! yet the horses have all been bumped/re-advertised?!
Can't work out if I'm just unlucky with who I've responded to or if the ads are fake?
 
BallyJ said:
Would like to retract this statement! I've responded to/contacted 3 different adverts through Whickr and haven't had a reply from any of them! yet the horses have all been bumped/re-advertised?!
Can't work out if I'm just unlucky with who I've responded to or if the ads are fake?
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Are you sure your messages have got though? There might be a glitch in the system? Worth reporting in case they can fix something.
 
It's not the nicest website but I have had good responses from Horsemart, and it's free with limited number of photos. Horses tend to be a bit lower range in terms of budget than Horsequest. If you use Facebook, be selective about the groups you choose rather than just a general post. If they are hunting types the Equestrian Notice Board is good.
 
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