Buying horsey items secondhand

[brown tack]

Would you be kind enough to help me price a few items I've got for sale as giving up horses to have a child. I'm doing a table top sale in the week but unsure how to price things.

Used saddle cloths, full all cost over £35 new, had very little wear

Used bridles newish, English leather, cost £80 new

Girth leather as new £40 new

Lotions and shampoo etc most only used a few times so tons left, are they wroth taking?

How about clothes, jods a few fairly new, some more worn in.

Jackets musto ones cost £120 new but have seen a few winters

Show jacket caldean cost £230 new but only did a few days hunting, but unfortunately a few tag marks from a fall

And how about rugs are people buying them this time of year? I've got some cracking horse wear ones which have only seen a horse a once, most cost £130+ is it wroth the trip taking them?

Please note I'm not advertising just after coatings, ball park prices I can market at. I dont want to under sell as got a baby on the way, but also it's got to go.

Thanks

 

[Toffee44]

Ebay. Start with maybe 20-50 under what you want see what happens. Put the lotions in bundles ie shampoos, coat care etc. That's what I would do.

 

[Miss L Toe]

Start the day with pricing at half the retail price for stuff as good as new.
At the end of the day if you have lotions left, sell them as a job lot. you don't want to take them home, the best ones will be sold first, so start at half price, get some sticky labels from WH Smith
Rugs must be clean and sized, ask bout a third of price for most of them.
Don't sell anything at below your "gut feeling" value in the first hour, as at this time some dealers will swoop on you (if it is like a normal car boot, anyway)
Ebay can be difficult and there are some nasty types on there. people who think they got an amazing bargain then want to return it to you because of some very minor flaw which you may not have noticed, or amazingly was not there when you posted it!

 

[jeeve]

I would expect at least half price, and most people would. Bundling some stuff is an excellent idea.

 

[Faithkat]

I've always asked about half price and I've also bought some amazing bargains (a brand new bridle that retailed at £100 for £35; a brand new £100 Fal rug for £40 . . . . .)

 

[brown tack]

Thank you, the half price idea seems like good one. As does the bundling of things.
My thoughts were to do the tack sale then what's left goes onto eBay, so hopefully I'm not being messed around to much.

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