Horse and Hound vs Horse Quest vs Horse Deals vs Horsemart

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I'm thinking of putting Spider up for sale and see what happens.... If someone came to veiw him, liked him and offered the right price and home then that'd be great. I've been dithering because he's such a decent young horse it seems crazy but I'm killing myself without the facilites, money, training and A-levels looming in September. I have only advertised on horsemart before and although with good results they were riding club type horses and ponies looking for leaisure/pleasure homes. Spider would suit a dressage, eventing or hunting/alrounder home I think. He's very handsoms and moves
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Where to advertise? H&H is so dear and I'm not sure I've got 'the photo' that you need. Which do you use and get results with?
 
I've just sold one through Horsequest, was a fairly serious hunter for reasonable money. I got a lot of phone calls and emails (putting your email address on an ad seems to work) and would have sold him a lot quicker than I did had I not had a timewaster
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My plan was 10 days on there (was about £40 for 5 weeks) then if I hadn't had enough serious enquiries I'd put it on H&H as well. Didn't need H&H in the end
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Never used horsemart but have used the other 3, interestingly never had a call from horsedeals. I had that problem with Horsequest.
I think it slightly depends on what level horse you are selling, project horses i look in horsedeals, smarter ones I look at horsequest.
Pretty much anything these days goes in H&H but i prefer horsequest as no word count and more pics!!
 
Thats a good idea... Try horsequest then if not H&H. I go to Ireland in Augest so if he didn't sell before then I could rethink when I get back. The thing that puts me off Horsequest is the way it's just a loooooooong list of horses without anyway to link to them... Pretty quickly you end up miles down. I have never really looked for horses to buy on there for this reason but I guess lots of others do!!
 
We buy off horsemart and sell on horsequest! For what we look for, Horsedeals seems to have older horses and more expensive than horsemart. HM seems to have cheaper more project types. Can rarely afford HQ horses! Most people seem to advertise everywhere else before H&H so have seen several of them before by the time they get to the mag.
 
i think horse quest is good and i would probably do as gamebird suggests because horse and hound is still the magazine with the biggest circulation
 
Have used horsequest - liked very much, and got good (mostly) serious response rates, and again, never had to fork out for h&h.

But when I buy, I go to horseselect - which isn't an option or it would have had my full vote! The horses tend to be more realistically priced than horsequest, and of a higher quality at every level. Plus, you do fall down the horsequest ranks v quick - horse select has fewer on there and the categories are v v specific so you can stay high up for ages. I bought my eventer from there 5 years ago - and have seen nice ones off there since - its still my first call as buyer or seller (And no, I don't have shares in it....:)

Edited just to add - it is very eventer orientated though - and re reading your post, realised "spider" may not be an eventer, i which case, not so much so! Sorry, my own biases there, clearly!
 
When I sold Sparky, we put him on horsequest, got lots of calls and veiwings but not a buyer, put him in h&h but nothing came of it apart form a few calls and in the end horsequest is where the buyers found him.
You get more pics and I would say more viewers on horsequest
 
i voted for horsequest...but i would say it depends on the type of horse.

horsemart - like you say is more riding club/leisure horses
horsequest - competition horses

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If you wait a while to sell him....in fact please can you FB me his details + price?? I'm away for a week now, but I may well talk to you about it when I'm home.... "mum i've got a new horse coming tomorrow, he's called Spider.....
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I voted Horsequest. Mine went on HQ and H&H, and got alot of serious phone calls from HQ, and a few but not a huge amount from H&H. I am still getting phone calls from HQ 6wks after advertising him.
 
I think because you have to trawl through horsequest it probably attracts the more serious buyers. As opposed to H&H or horsemart where it's easier to window shop (come on we all do it)!
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Horse and Hound - I wouldn't as way too expensive and not good if you live up in Scotland, I know of people up here who've advertised in it and got nothing.
Horse Quest - Hate the website so refuse to use it!
Horse Deals - I did try this earlier this year and got not one phone call...
Horsemart - Never tried it, but I rarely see their magazine in the shops anymore.

Otherwise, put her on any free-to-advertise websites and try local newspapers (we have one which is free to advertise in), putting up posters in local feed shops and asking local RC's to put her in their newsletter.
 
I agree with the "try Horsequest first and if no good go for H&H" strategy. HQ is much cheaper plus you can use more photos and text but I was surprised by how few calls we had whewn advertising earlier this year. I always look on there if I'm buying, but it would appear not everyone does. AS soon as we used H&H we sold - it's a shame as so pricey, but true for us.
 
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