How much are you asking?

I've just been looking at my ads and I see I do have a price on the breed society web site, so any serious enquirer interested in the breed would probably have seen it, assuming they had done their research.

I think if you look through breed specific adverts you will see a lot do not publish prices. The problem with putting a price on a green horse in training is that, hopefully, the value is actually increasing. As adverts can stay up for up to six months, that could lead to quite a discrepancy. How do you explain to someone that the horse advertised at £2,000 is now worth £3,000 because it has improved so much and won in competitions since the ad was posted?

But there we go, it takes all sorts. This has been an interesting thread.
 
so in other words you want to be able to get the best price possible for the horse you also want the new onwers not to care what money theSo yo y are paying for their new darling-you don't want to lose bargaining power. If you are selling a green horse you price it at what is' worth now, not what it might be worth in 6 months time..
 
I have to disagree with you, OP. Price is one of the first questions I will ask if the ad says POA, because I do not want to waste my own or the seller's time. Also, the last time I was buying I was on a very strict budget because I had just retired my mare due to injury. She was worth a lot of money but is now a write off. I could have had her PTS at the time as it looked unlikely she would be even paddock sound and the vet would have backed up the insurance claim for her £10k payment on death. But I knew she had a lot of fight in her and even though it was a long old journey, she is now paddock sound. BUT that meant my money was tied up in her and so her replacement had to be very cheap! I bought her replacement who unfortunately has also proved to be use only as a field ornament. He has had over £10k of veterinary treatment and is currently about to be brought back into work (if that is possible). So he has had the best possible home, even though cost was one of my first considerations. Just because someone does not have the capital to pay a lot of money for a horse does not mean they do not have the regular income to provide that horse with a five star home.
 
Dry Rot said:
The problem with putting a price on a green horse in training is that, hopefully, the value is actually increasing. As adverts can stay up for up to six months, that could lead to quite a discrepancy. How do you explain to someone that the horse advertised at £2,000 is now worth £3,000 because it has improved so much and won in competitions since the ad was posted?
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you edit your advert;) i have seen ads where it explains that horse is green and price will be increased as training progresses.

something else which came to me about POA ads is that i have wondered if the seller makes up the price depending on how rich they think the caller is!! talk with a plummy accent and you're going to get quoted 10k, call up sounding like a farmer (:eek: ) and it will be 3k!!
I work for a rich couple who have said many times that tradesman etc see their big house and brand new jag and think 'oh they are rolling in it , we'll add a few grand onto the quote' !!
 
The alternative to having a budget is having unlimited funds...and I don't know many people like that. The money I have available to buy a horse isn't necessarily the money I wish to spend on one, and it certainly doesn't equate to the sum total of my finances. I wouldn't waste my time enquiring about a horse with no price mentioned in the ad, and I certainly wouldn't want to waste the seller's time enquiring and trying out a horse I either couldn't afford or didn't want to pay close to their asking price for.
 
Dry Rot said:
"Being on a budget" indicates to me that money is tight and maybe things like livery, vet, farrier, etc. may be skimped and, if things get tough, the owner might be in severe trouble.
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I wouldn't judge someone for being on a budget. Don't think its fair to assume everyone would take shortcuts with their horses welfare just because they're 'on a budget.' :p

I get where your coming from with the calls and first question issue though. Though money is obviously an important factor to buyers, the horse should be the main priority. Suppose they just don't want to waste your time if its completely not affordable. :)
 
I had a good budget, but I would have expected that the horse was worth it. And I hate haggling so someone asking well over the odds and expecting to be haggled down wouldn't have got a call from me. To be honest horses near the top of my budget were clearly too much horse for me since I don't want to compete at a high level so the extra money has gone into the livery.

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Well, I recently sold a pony by negotiation. She was an elderly pony going to the perfect family home. She has mild sweet itch and the new owners could offer grazing more-or-less on the sea shore, so not likely to have many midges. She is regularly hacking out, jumping, etc. and very happy.

I screwed the young owners for the princely sum of £3 which is all they had in their money box at the time. So you can see, my philosophy is to never give a sucker an even break! :D:D:D

And to the poster who suggested I wouldn't accept £50 -- well, I might! It all depends. And, yes, I do sometimes look at the car. When Mr Bridgestone Tyres wanted to buy a dog from me, I refused his offer but said I would accept five times as much. I got the cheque by return of post. That would be well into five figures in today's money and I suppose he was pleased as he came back and bought several more, all at prices agreed by negotiation.

If it was so bad to sell by negotiation, I wouldn't be selling much. As for those who think talking about horses is "wasting time", what are you doing on here?:D
 
OP you're getting silly now. Discussing something on a horse forum is very different to ringing sellers for a specific purpose (to find out if their horse is potentially suitable for you.) I presume you don't phone up about random horses for sale just for a chat with the owner if you're not in a position to buy - that would be similarly wasting time.

I don't really like the idea of pricing depending on what you think someone can afford and inflating it for someone who seems rich. Seems grabbing and disingenuous - rather than being primarily concerned with quality of home over money.
 
I don't even call poa as think I can't afford it and my last budget was £2500. Which I don't think is too bad for what I wanted. A under 8 , 14.3-16 hh that needed a bit of schooling. Was sane.

I could have missed out on ones that were poa but who knows .....
 
Doesnt necessarily mean the buyer cannot afford the horse.....maybe they just dont want to pay over the odds for a horse that they do not feel is 'worth' the money for whatever reason.....
 
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