fredflop
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Would anyone like to help me via PM? Need some thoughts on an offer to make on a horse I want to buy
As Ant above said. FWIW I think making an offer by text is very poor form.
Where did anyone say about making an offer via text?
I think OP is asking for some PM advice from other forum users?
Sorry I have little knowledge regarding buying and selling but good luck OP!
Just chatting between ourselves to pass the time, keep ya weave onWhere did anyone say about making an offer via text?
I think OP is asking for some PM advice from other forum users?
Sorry I have little knowledge regarding buying and selling but good luck OP!
If I received an offer by text it would be a flat no, if i even bothered to reply. Incredibly rude IMHO!
Far too many people these days think they can make an offer just because they happen to want the horse you're selling.
Haggle is a word that I wouldn't use, I negotiate and if the sales ad says NO offers, then I'd assume that is the seller's position. I certainly wouldn't assume that if the seller was willing to negotiate that there was somethng wrong with the horse, I assume that anyway! There's always something you haven't been told, but I am quite cynical.I would also agree with Janet George. I had been planning a trip down to buy one of her Irish draughts, until I went Spanish for still undetermined reasons, I blame hypnosis.
I think some sellers can be deluded about what their horse is worth, I wouldn't go and see it. However if the horse is decent and the seller knowledgable I would expect to pay the asking price.
I love to haggle, I've been accused of overzealous haggling. I assume if they're prepared to haggle there's something wrong with it. It, I hate calling a living breathing animal it.
I can't see any problem with text or email. I dislike phones generally, finding them intrusive - and you have a chance to consider a response at leisure with texting. Having said that when I am wanting to buy I phone as I am generally very excited by that point and want to secure the sale asap.
Way below asking price offers AFTER viewing drive me nuts. A family once came to ride my fell pony. They ALL rode - 2 daughters, mum and Aunt. In the school, out hacking, over XC fences. Then said she was way over budget and would I take X? Grrrr
Queries around specific lower offers before viewing are fine though the question 'what's the lowest you'd take' in response to an ad is always ignored. 'I don't know, it depends' would be the honest answer to that!
Not clever to take things out of context!!Why else would they make an offer?
Not clever to take things out of context!!
So you would offer less than half the price for a £8000 horse? and you wonder why there are so few quality horses on the market and breed numbers have dropped significantly in many areas? Quite simply its not worth the time/effort/expense breeding and producing at the moment. Hopefully the situation will improve over the time a it has in the past but unlikely to anytime soon!
I understand that it is not a very English thing to do, but almost everywhere else (and particularly here in Ireland) you'd be considered mad not to haggle! And as for your family of riders offering less after having a sit on, perhaps their offer was based on how they felt the horse went for them? That's how I would evaluate a horse, and I wouldn't start to negotiate until after considering all aspects. I certainly wouldn't take offense at a low offer, after all you can always say no (that's how haggling works).