Do saddles actually sell on ebay?

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Just had a look on there and aside from the Wintecs, didn't see many bids...

Anyone had any success selling a used leather saddle on there (around the £150-£200 price range).....
 
Have listed my dressage saddle twice now, but not sold! My friend has her's listed at the moment too and no bids so far!! Tack in general I don't think is selling much!
 
I've just sold my Albion on Preloved, it's free to advertise and I sold it on the first day I advertised :) They also have wanted ads on there so you might find somebody looking for what you have too :)
 
Nope. It is an expensive waste of time :(
I listed my 3 month old brand new and unused Jeffries leather saddle for a give-away 'Buy It Now' price of £300. I even offered free p&p. Listed it twice, 2nd time with an attached 'Best Offer' option - No bids, Nothing, nada :confused:
I eventually sold it within an hour of it going 'Live' on Preloved. Brilliant website!
 
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i have brought loads of saddles of ebay, but i have to say i am a bit tight with the purse strings.
If you want to sell it you have to look at what people are willing to pay rather than how much you want to recoup, or else keep the saddle.
I have found when selling that starting at a low price attracts more bidders, i would not look at saddles starting at £300 as i would think they would eventually go out of my price range, but would bid over that for a saddle that i was watching on from a small price.
Hope that makes sense
 
miss_bird said:
I have found when selling that starting at a low price attracts more bidders, i would not look at saddles starting at £300 as i would think they would eventually go out of my price range, but would bid over that for a saddle that i was watching on from a small price.
Hope that makes sense
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I've started at £50, bit of a gamble, hope it pays off.
 
Sold both my working hunter and an older style Ideal dressage saddle, both at buy it now prices of around 250-300, very quickly. We added a link to seperate web pages and put absolutely loads of photos of both from every angle possible. I think it helps if you can put lots of photos on and add as much detail as possible so the buyer is confident in their purchase.
 
I have actually bought and sold saddles quite successfully on ebay but I would be wary about the fit - you have to know what you are looking for and wintec/thorogood have pretty standard fits and people know what they are getting - also bought a fantastic western saddle but knew that would fit any horse. So lots of pictures and exact measurements and pictures of between the 'Ds'.
 
As I knew *exactly* what I was looking for, brand, size, shape, color...and knew how they'd fit, and a rough idea of how much I was willing to spend without being silly I bought a fantastic WH saddle on ebay and got a lovely deal on a Stirlingshire (which is made by Ideal, but as I don't think many people are familiar with Stirlingshire it was largely not bid on-- so a scoop for me). I have looked on ebay -- again, knowing exactly what I wanted, for dressge saddles in the past and only came away empty handed after months of looking and not finding what I wanted. My saddler came thru with a second hand one in the end.
 
PucciNPoni said:
As I knew *exactly* what I was looking for, brand, size, shape, color...and knew how they'd fit, and a rough idea of how much I was willing to spend without being silly I bought a fantastic WH saddle on ebay and got a lovely deal on a Stirlingshire (which is made by Ideal, but as I don't think many people are familiar with Stirlingshire it was largely not bid on-- so a scoop for me). I have looked on ebay -- again, knowing exactly what I wanted, for dressge saddles in the past and only came away empty handed after months of looking and not finding what I wanted. My saddler came thru with a second hand one in the end.
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I hope someone will be searching for an exselle VSD! That is the worry when you don't have a big brand saddle, so I tried to put as much info in the title as poss. Well many people seem to have sold via ebay so I'll keep my fingers crossed!
 
I have sold two saddles on ebay, one went to a lady in USA!

Agree with what others have said, lots of photos and as much info as possible and then its really just fingers crossed that there is some one out there who knows what they want!
 
I just put my Bates jumping saddle on. First time I have tried ebay as a seller so will let you know how it gets on. Now skipping over to Preloved as lots of people seem to use it. Good luck.
 
Well I have bought 2 so yes they do sell - you just cannot ask stupid money for them - basically you cannot ask what a saddler would ask as the bidder is buying blind and untried and usually there is no refunds or returns on the 2nd hand saddles.

I have seen a few saddle on ebay where the seller is asking really silly money - practically what the saddle was worth new.
 
I had difficulty selling my thorowgood saddle on ebay and that was in the summer. Eventually sold it but took a drop on it. Not impressed with ebay at all.
 
Jumping saddle went on buy it now for the price I wanted before auction ended. Dressage saddle has been relisted at lower price....
Can only say I think the demand for GP/jumping saddles is higher anyway, dressage saddles are easy to come by with less demand for them!! :(
 
I have bought several almost new saddles through ebay, paying less than half price for each of them. I've also bought loads of real cheapies <£30!

I've also just listed a Bates, which I bought through ebay some years ago so it will be interesting to see what happens with it. I didn't have the balls to go for a 99p start price though.

Two watchers so far!
 
I've bought and sold tack, including a saddle on ebay - the one think you have to watch is the cost of post and packaging - I boxed up the saddle with loads of protection around it and charged exactly what it cost me to post. One I was looking at wanted really silly money for p&p - way over what it would cost.
 
in the last few months i have sold 4 high value saddles on eBay- 2 went to UK buyers, 1 went to Germany and 1 went to Holland.

The issue is many people have their starting bid too high- you get a higher price by allowing people to get into a bidding war rather than starting them too high.

postage was very reasonable for the saddles, even those going abroad as we used a courier not Royal Mail.
 
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