Help with making an offer on a horse for sale...

Ambers Echo said:
Yes I can see how haggling/offering lower might be reasonable under some circumstances. I once viewed a horse priced at £4000. He was very challeging in the viewing (and the owner would not ride him!). I said I felt he had potential but was in my view significantly over-priced given he had been out of work and was not behaving very well and needed a bit of sorting out. I did not make an offer but later saw the price had dropped on Horsemart ro £2000 and he was being described as a 'project'.

This family wound me up because they said they loved her but she was well over budget for them. I was not prepared accept what they could afford to pay so it just wasted my time.
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By that measure, anyone who made an offer, or didn't buy the horse, would be wasting your time? I went to view a horse (in England, as it happens), said I wasn't prepared to pay for it as it was well-nigh unrideable (I did manage to ride it BTW), and so they gave it to me, and paid the transport (to Ireland). He's over there <<< in my profile pic, 8 years later and the best horse ever :-). Was I a timewaster?
 
Cortez said:
By that measure, anyone who made an offer, or didn't buy the horse, would be wasting your time? I went to view a horse (in England, as it happens), said I wasn't prepared to pay for it as it was well-nigh unrideable (I did manage to ride it BTW), and so they gave it to me, and paid the transport (to Ireland). He's over there <<< in my profile pic, 8 years later and the best horse ever :). Was I a timewaster?
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Not at all. I have no problem people genuinely interested in buying making a lower offer if they could explain why they felt she was not worth what I was asking. And if they had said we like her but..... I might have agreed/disagreed with their assessment of her etc but at least it would have felt like they were genuine before they tried. But they literally spent 2 + hours riding her then offered about half her price and when I said no said that was all they could afford. THAT is time wasting in my view. Why view a horse who is well over budget without at least checking that I might be open to a well below asking price offer.
 
Incidentally the same family rang me back a little later and said they wanted to try her again. I asked whether they were in a position to improve their offer and they said no! I did not let them view her again. I do think they just wanted a fun afternoon or two playing with ponies.
 
Ambers Echo said:
Incidentally the same family rang me back a little later and said they wanted to try her again. I asked whether they were in a position to improve their offer and they said no! I did not let them view her again. I do think they just wanted a fun afternoon or two playing with ponies.
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Quite possibly, but you were perfectly able to refuse (as you did). That's haggling for you.
 
Ambers Echo said:
Incidentally the same family rang me back a little later and said they wanted to try her again. I asked whether they were in a position to improve their offer and they said no! I did not let them view her again. I do think they just wanted a fun afternoon or two playing with ponies.
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I once did an entire viewing and at the end she said 'And he's for loan, right?'. I wanted to wring her neck.
 
Ambers Echo said:
Maybe I am just intolerant!! Interesting though how views differ so much as to what is and is not okay in the horse buying world.
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No, that would have peed me off too. If someone has no intention of paying remotely near the asking price then it’s only polite to check it’s okay to view beforehand. Viewings can be very time consuming and sometimes expensive (if you are hiring facilities or turning down work) so not much point doing them if seller won’t consider accepting the buyers budget
 
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