Horses Advertised Vs Actual Price

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When you bought or sold a horse did you actually pay/sell at the original advertised price or did you pay less and buy how much?
 
Interesting thread
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I'll keep an eye on it.
 
Porridge: Paid the asking price as there were other offers on the table, but I did get her rugs thrown in.

Splodge: Was a PX and I deffo got the better end of the bargain

Zante: Got £700 off price

Stan: Got £700 off price

Chico: Got £5k off price and I still paid too much LOL!
 
I paid the asking price for both of mine but got delivery from Reading (1 1/2hours) thrown in for Gyp. And Hattie was cheap so I wasn't worried about her.
 
I hate it when people bid you on price, before they have even seen the horse !!
whats that all about ?? could be a complete diamond !!
 
We have sold and bought our horses for the asking price and in all the ones we have sold we have thrown in a few extras such as rugs and tack.
 
I sold eddie bang on, they didnt even offer any less!

Bought both Harry and Tara for a bit less (about £500 less) than asking price, as my dad just HAS to try and haggle
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Well with Bean we had two options, Basic bean (saddle, bridle, 2 rugs and horse!) or everything (saddle,two bridles, wardrobe of rugs, feed buckets etc) everything was £500 more. But was got everything for basic price !!
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Complicated ey!
 
Stan was POA in the papers and £3500 in the tack store at the yard, we got him for £1500.

my others 2 came from a market and the other was advertised price.
 
Dan was advertised for £9k lets just say I very very very very easily paid more than 3.5k less than that.

Basically bought him from breeders who friends. Had already been riding him for a year (started out just so had something to ride whilst old horse was lame then started loaning as old horse didn't come right). I put a lot of work into him and had increased his value from when I started riding him (ie i introduced dressage!!!!!) and they knew we got on and I would give him a good home.

Yes he has his soundness issues now but he isn't going anywhere
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I think you should reconstruct poll as a percentage of price decrease - after all knocking £1k off a £25k horse is not the same (to the seller anyway!) as knocking £1k off the price of a £2.5k horse....
 
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I think you should reconstruct poll as a percentage of price decrease - after all knocking £1k off a £25k horse is not the same (to the seller anyway!) as knocking £1k off the price of a £2.5k horse....

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But then we would all have to start doing maths
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OK - whats the % decrease in the above examples.
 
When i brought Bloss we got £1k off the asking price, she was up for £3.5k and we paid £2.5k.

I paid what she wanted for Archie as she wasnt going to budge and i really wanted him (for some bizarre reason
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My latest was advertised originally at £13k - I got him for £4.5k. He's worth every penny of that IMHO, but not worth £13k really
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When selling I have always got the asking price, but have thrown in a couple of rugs etc (usually because I don't want them any more!)
 
Haha.....Well, i can't really answer this one in Bo's case because i went to the dealers yard with an idea in my head of what i wanted to pay for a horse. I didn't know which horse, or how many i was going to look at. I rejected the first one i was shown without even getting on it....and then went round the yard looking for what i wanted. Found him, they tacked him up and i rode him. I decided he was the one for me, but had no idea what the price was at this point ! When i was told, it was significantly more than i had originally wanted to pay but still what i considered to be good value for a horse that was significantly more than i had originally imagined we would buy
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I did ask if there was any room for a reduction (i was being REALLY assertive by now...NOT!) and was told the price had already been dropped significantly as it was above what i had originally told them i was prepared to pay....but i did get him to throw in some tack which i later p/x'd for about £250 against a new saddle
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Suffice to say this is NOT the approach i would recommend to anyone purchasing a horse, but i was lucky....or at least i think so
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My horse was actually advertised a DOUBLE what i brought her for (lucky me
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Owner needed a quick sale due to divorce and horse on schooling livery, plus another on full livery at a different yard.

When i had her vetted and the vet found out how much i was paying he was in disbelief and told me i have got myself and massive bargin
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My latest was advertised originally at £13k - I got him for £4.5k. He's worth every penny of that IMHO, but not worth £13k really
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When selling I have always got the asking price, but have thrown in a couple of rugs etc (usually because I don't want them any more!)

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how did you get the price down by so much?!
 
I haven't voted as was not really too sure what to vote for. When I advertise my horses for sale, I generally over price them by 10% which is usually around $500 and I generally allow for a bump-down of $500 so I end up getting exactly what I feel the horse is worth and the purchaser feels happy in that they got the horse "cheap". Most of my horses sell for around $5,000, although I have sold some for far more and others for less. It all depends on the horse and the breeding. None are sold with any tack - the only thing that goes with them is a headcollar.

When I buy horses I generally bump them down by $500 regardless of the purchase price; and I almost always come home with the horse. Generally I am offered the tack for free, so I take it and sell it on, which brings the purchase price down somewhat even more.
 
Just waited! Loads of people came to see him - for various reasons didn't like him - but I do! Patience is a virtue sometimes I guess....
 
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Got mine bang on, but they effectively paid for transportation for him.
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Came with diddly squat though! Not even a leadrope!!

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same! got him for the exact price and he came with nothing!
 
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