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Probably jinxing by doing this. It’s our first viewing for a quiet sensible hack for hubby (and ideally something I can do some low level jumping on as don’t jump mine after injury). Been looking for ages. Seen a good few we like online but they’ve sold stupidly fast (often unseen) and even with a market slow down now (you can see it even if it’s tiny when you view ads as much as I do) you have to be super quick to get a viewing. So got one in the diary - horse ticks all the boxes on paper and a bit more, I’m slightly desensitised to pricing now (they seem to be going up if anything) and not the other side of the country. Who knows!!
 
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Ceriann said:
Probably jinxing by doing this. It’s our first viewing for a quiet sensible hack for hubby (and ideally something I can do some low level jumping on as don’t jump mine after injury). Been looking for ages. Seen a good few we like online but they’ve sold stupidly fast (often unseen) and even with a market slow down now (you can see it even if it’s tiny when you view ads as much as I do) you have to be super quick to get a viewing. So got one in the diary - horse ticks all the boxes on paper and a bit more, I’m slightly desensitised to pricing now (they seem to be going up if anything) and not the other side of the country. Who knows!!
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Probably jinxing by doing this. It’s our first viewing for a quiet sensible hack for hubby (and ideally something I can do some low level jumping on as don’t jump mine after injury). Been looking for ages. Seen a good few we like online but they’ve sold stupidly fast (often unseen) and even with a market slow down now (you can see it even if it’s tiny when you view ads as much as I do) you have to be super quick to get a viewing. So got one in the diary - horse ticks all the boxes on paper and a bit more, I’m slightly desensitised to pricing now (they seem to be going up if anything) and not the other side of the country. Who knows!!
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I actually thought they were beginning to even out price wise.

I've contacted someone selling a horse that my friend sent me a link to. After numerous text messages through every available medium, FB, WA, SMS she finally got back to me with a price. 10 mins later ring her to confirm viewing, not picking up. Left text message. Not heard anything, left another saying I was just about to go to my spin class I would try to call after. Got message saying to ring after a certain time, I rang six times, not answering the phone!!!

Left a message 45 minutes ago asking if everything was okay, has something happened? Guess what, no reply. GRRR

I will give my hard earned money to someone that actually wants to sell the horse they have advertised!!
 
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Hope you get to see it! The market seems bonkers currently, I’m relieved I’m not looking with people buying unseen.
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It really is - I am now seeing horses hang around for longer, especially the young v fully priced ones but the ones with a bit more experience and good temperament are still shifting. I think some pricing has gone bonkers but a nice sensible and useful horse that’s done a bit is always going to push budgets. I’m less excitable now about ads etc - missed out on so many!!
 
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It really is - I am now seeing horses hang around for longer, especially the young v fully priced ones but the ones with a bit more experience and good temperament are still shifting. I think some pricing has gone bonkers but a nice sensible and useful horse that’s done a bit is always going to push budgets. I’m less excitable now about ads etc - missed out on so many!!
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Well knowing what I know with the horse hunting I've being doing over the past few weeks the ones that hang around week after week after week on the websites have either failed a vetting, are not suitable when viewed (either in person or via video), or are priced ridiculously high, like one for 17K that I saw the other day that had a couple of useless photos, one of its bum as it jumps over a fence from miles away and another one of it halfway through a canter stride with its legs all over the place, with diddly squat experience. And you think, well I've seen at least two dozen out of my price range but cheaper than those that look amazing and have done it all!

You'd think people would at least make an effort to get some decent photos put up.
 
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Birker2020 said:
I actually thought they were beginning to even out price wise.

I've contacted someone selling a horse that my friend sent me a link to. After numerous text messages through every available medium, FB, WA, SMS she finally got back to me with a price. 10 mins later ring her to confirm viewing, not picking up. Left text message. Not heard anything, left another saying I was just about to go to my spin class I would try to call after. Got message saying to ring after a certain time, I rang six times, not answering the phone!!!

Left a message 45 minutes ago asking if everything was okay, has something happened? Guess what, no reply. GRRR

I will give my hard earned money to someone that actually wants to sell the horse they have advertised!!
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I think prices are now consistently high - 10 to 15k seems standard for an average all rounder. I saw an ad for one that ticked all our boxes and was nice to look at but nothing special - 18.5k.

I hope that doesn’t happen to us - I’ve had a couple of viewings pencilled before but with a dealer that sells mostly unseen so my hopes were never high!!
 
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I think prices are now consistently high - 10 to 15k seems standard for an average all rounder. I saw an ad for one that ticked all our boxes and was nice to look at but nothing special - 18.5k.
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It's no fun. Good luck with your viewing. Head not heart and all that. The ones I seem attracted to always seem at least a 6 hour round trip or more away! :eek:
 
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It's no fun. Good luck with your viewing. Head not heart and all that. The ones I seem attracted to always seem at least a 6 hour round trip or more away! :eek:
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I have a two hour rule and I won’t buy unseen (I fell in love with my mare on viewing - you can’t get a gut instinct view from even the best of videos). I drove hours to see a horse a few years ago to be told 5 mins away that he’d sold.
 
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Thank you and thank you so much for the help with the others - hugely appreciated. No video for this one (not yet anyway)!
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If you like it please put down a deposit and get it vetted. It's really the best thing to do, one I was very interesting in seeing three weeks ago sadly failed the vetting. Luckily, although I was actually in the first come first served queue she let someone else view it first as they were offering to fly to view it! They ended up going on the train and stopping in a hotel the night before the viewing. They liked it and had it vetted and it failed.

Lovely horse and for some people, the reasons it failed: low grade heart murmur and sarcoid wouldn't have stopped them, but for me it was a big no no.
 
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If you like it please put down a deposit and get it vetted. It's really the best thing to do, one I was very interesting in seeing three weeks ago sadly failed the vetting. Luckily, although I was actually in the first come first served queue she let someone else view it first as they were offering to fly to view it! They ended up going on the train and stopping in a hotel the night before the viewing. They liked it and had it vetted and it failed.

Lovely horse and for some people, the reasons it failed: low grade heart murmur and sarcoid wouldn't have stopped them, but for me it was a big no no.
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Won’t take any health issues - I have two companions already and my riding mare broke a couple of years ago (now fully rehabbed but it’s hard work). A known issue isn’t an option, accepting you take the risk anything can break.

Last horse I bought, owner vetted me and was so focused on what she considered was the right home, which turned out to be me! Different market now.
 
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Yes good luck. my geography let me down and I ended up with a nearly 3 hour journey, so 6 there and back. Worth it though as I did buy that one. Prices were bonkers (may 2021) and I really didn’t/don’t need a 2nd ridden but I’ve never been sensible when it comes to horses, or much else really! You do get a bit immune to prices, I started out with a 10k budget which on any other day would be plenty. It wasn’t enough for what I wanted ?
 
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I'm not buying but I like trawling adverts, I'm seeing the dealers' prices far more realistic than private sellers. Good luck to those viewing.
 
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Ceriann said:
On our way so not yet sold. There is a viewing before us so we may yet have a wasted journey. Hopefully not.
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You are very patient, I won't travel to one where another person is seeing the horse the same day as me. Firstly it may not still be for sale by the time you arrive, secondly it will already be tired and you won't get a true picture.

That said, I just did what I always said I would never do, and bought unseen. The dealer had a good rep, and the horse made me smile. Only time will tell as to if that was a risk that paid off though. I found I could get to look at pure sports hoses, or cobs, but the inbetweeners, which is what I wanted, were snapped up however quickly I got in the car and tried to get there.
 
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No go. Notch it down to experience. I had told seller it would be ridden by a novice - hacking but v clear the novice was quite novice. On viewing told it was a project on the flat - watched it and it was plainly v sensitive in the mouth or uncomfortable. Why I don’t know but called it a day as also fully priced and being sold as an all rounder. Shame as seemed a lovely natured horse.

Anyone fancy ad trawling for us - I’m flagging again!
 
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You are very patient, I won't travel to one where another person is seeing the horse the same day as me. Firstly it may not still be for sale by the time you arrive, secondly it will already be tired and you won't get a true picture.

That said, I just did what I always said I would never do, and bought unseen. The dealer had a good rep, and the horse made me smile. Only time will tell as to if that was a risk that paid off though. I found I could get to look at pure sports hoses, or cobs, but the inbetweeners, which is what I wanted, were snapped up however quickly I got in the car and tried to get there.
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How exciting - what have you bought?
 
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No go. Notch it down to experience. I had told seller it would be ridden by a novice - hacking but v clear the novice was quite novice. On viewing told it was a project on the flat - watched it and it was plainly v sensitive in the mouth or uncomfortable. Why I don’t know but called it a day as also fully priced and being sold as an all rounder. Shame as seemed a lovely natured horse.

Anyone fancy ad trawling for us - I’m flagging again!
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i love window shopping, i know its for novice OH, what size,min/max, weight carrier or not, roughly where are you in the country
 
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i love window shopping, i know its for novice OH, what size,min/max, weight carrier or not, roughly where are you in the country
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Thank you!! We’re East Mids - we don’t want to travel more than 2 hours from Ashbourne to view. Horse - between 15.2-16.2 (can go bigger if otherwise perfect), husband is 5ft11 and 12st so horse doesn’t need to carry weight. No medical issues or previous injuries, no babies (I considered a sensible young one fleetingly only) and would prefer younger than mid teens+. Good budget - could stretch to 12k (prefer to get change from 10k)!
 
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