Did I really get ripped off.

luckyoldme

luckyoldme

Well-Known Member
Joined
7 October 2010
Messages
7,534
Visit site
Fours years ago i paid £2,000 for my chestnut gelding.
He was passported as ten but the vet put him into his teens and thats as much as i know.
Hes 16.2 and I would say idxtb. I wanted a horse to knock round the doors with and feel safe on.
He has given me three summers of good hacking..he (touch wood) is a really good doer and has needed the vet once for gravel.
I can leave him for months on end then throw the saddle on and hack out confidently. He was really bad with other horses but since moving to a farm with some heavy horses this issue has resolved itself. He currently lives with one mare and foal a clydsdale filly and a clydesdale gelding.. no issues at all. Last summer we had him kept somewhere with better facilities but the lady there was a bit of a stroppy mare.. When she asked how much i paid she said "you paid that much for THAT THING?"
Looking back over the last four years I don t think i did badly at all. I reckon a lot of folk paid a lot more and weren t happy with what they got.
I would be interested to know what other people would think acceptable to pay for a good safe sensible hack.
 
Sounds like jealousy to me. It also sounds like he's been on the whole a wonderful horse, did what you wanted him to do, safe and healthy. Why do you think you've been ripped off? I think you got a bargain!
 
Sounds reasonable to me :) and if he 's safe and sensible and you can trust him then he's worth his weight in gold. Only thing that really matters is what he's worth to you and he sounds lovely :)
 
That does not seem OTT on price tbh. He sounds like a good safe hack who is not that old yet by the sounds of it either. I love a bargain and have had some wonderful bargains of horses many years ago. Nell was more than I wanted to pay, but actually she seems to be a very nice young mare, and if she turns out to be a great hack, which is what I want then she would have been a bit of a bargain in a way.

Anyway, it is what he is worth to you, I do not think you paid a crazy sum, this lady may have only ever spent small amounts? And hence has a slightly skewed view on the reality of your purchase price etc....
 
I wouldn't say you've been ripped off at all. You have a horse you feel safe with, as zeb said he's worth his weight in gold. If he's what you like, which he sounds like he is, he's worth it, you can't put a price on happiness.
 
Thats great.. I have loved nearly every minute with him..although hes not dull by any standards..he has kept me on my toes.
thankyou all for confirming my own thoughts... heres a picture of him (nearest the camera)
picture.php
 
Last edited:
Tbh if you're happy with you're horse, then I don't think you've ever been ripped off. I've paid £500 for a horse before and felt ripped off, but paid nearly £4k for another, and not resented handing the cash over at all.

It doesn't really matter what anyone thinks about what you have paid or what they think of your horse - as long as you're happy, that's all that matters :)
 
Four years ago I paid £1500 for an unbacked four year old 14.2 [nothing special] out of a field, have spent a fortune, but have had an interesting, and often a fun time, now I am struggling to get £1500 for him, broken, well built, and ready to compete, so really I think you have done OK.
Personally I would never ask someone how much they paid, and would not insult someone like that.
 
Last edited:
He sounds absolutely lovely and I think he was a bargain. I was expecting to read on to find he was broken/nuts etc later on but he isn't and therefore was really very cheap!

I'd have liked to have said something to that nasty woman for impugning his honour. But I'm rubbish at that and wouldn't have thought until ages later, how clever it would have been to have said 'oh b****r off, you old fart'.
 
How rude to ask and then even ruder to comment. You have the last laugh and upper hand...horse who has served you well and you have enjoyed. Now THAT is priceless!
 
It's very rude to ask anyone how much they paid for anything. It's unbelievably rude to respond as she did. Ignore it, you got a bargain.
 
Some people spend more than that on one vet bill. Mine is similar in the fact that you can pick him up and put him down when you like, and therefore I don't feel guilty if I don't get time to ride and I know he isn't going to be a prat when I get on. To me, that is worth it's weight in gold.
 
Bargain I say. Any horse that allows you to feel safe doing whatever you want to do is with their weight in gold.
I thought my boy was a little overpriced when I bought him. Now I think he is totally priceless because I can ask him to do anything and feel safe :)
 
When I bought Archie I was met with the same but he has proved to be worth his weight in gold and those who commented have eaten their words.

Don't listen to what other people say, its usually jealousy.
 
I get this when people find out that I paid £2700 for my mare, but she is the only one on any yard that I have been on that hasn't reared, truly bolted, knocked anyone's confidence, refused, cost a fortune in vets etc.

She will never win HOYS or jump 1.30 but she will jump, is capable of a nice test, can be left in the field or ridden everyday, will take a novice or more advanced rider, is willing and fun and is as safe as they come.

She was advertised for £4250 and I would have paid more than that if I knew then what I know now. Often it's jealousy. When a girl at my last place had nothing to ride as she daren't ride her own she refused my offer of hacking on my mare as she just couldn't bring herself to ride a big, coloured cob - idiot!

Do you feel like you paid a fair price? It sounds like it - enjoy him and tell everyone else to sod off!
 
As someone said to me when I was asking for a valuation for insurance, any horse is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. So your lad is worth £2000, because that is what you were willing to pay for him :) I have to say he sounds worth a kings ransome because you cannot put a price on the fun and enjoyment you have with him.
 
If this is the chestnut you bought off philip mcateer then yes u were robbed and if i recall he was a nitemare at first ....but as like mine you have put the time in to make him a safe sensible lad no amount of money can buy that...me i was robbed..he prob paid pittance for my mare and i paid way over the odds but now shes worth double as shes going safely and competing etc... so yes i think you may have been robbed(if it is the same horse) and now you have prob made him a nice safe lad...so poss worth a bit more..my 3 years with mine has made us have a bond i wouldnt break for 15000 never mind what i paid :D
 
horseandshoes77 said:
If this is the chestnut you bought off philip mcateer then yes u were robbed and if i recall he was a nitemare at first ....but as like mine you have put the time in to make him a safe sensible lad no amount of money can buy that...me i was robbed..he prob paid pittance for my mare and i paid way over the odds but now shes worth double as shes going safely and competing etc... so yes i think you may have been robbed(if it is the same horse) and now you have prob made him a nice safe lad...so poss worth a bit more..my 3 years with mine has made us have a bond i wouldnt break for 15000 never mind what i paid :D
Click to expand...
What a strange attitude: if, as you say, your horse is worth more than £15,000 (to you), if you paid less than that for him then you got a bargain, non? And how was the OP "robbed" if they have a horse that sounds like it is worth the world to him/her?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top