Impossible Saddle Buying

[GrassChop]

I just don't understand why people put saddles up for sale and never respond to messages!

I've been looking for a saddle that feels to be like hens teeth and as soon as I find one, the sellers don't reply.

I just want a 17" saddle with teardrop gussets and a drop panel that's relatively cheap but it doesn't seem to be happening. Either messages get read and never replied or not read at all and I'm losing the will with endless scrolling through websites looking for one.

 

[MereChristmas]

Selling is just as bad.
Is this available?
Yes
Is it full size / red / 6 ft / 17” ( or what ever )?
Yes
The buyer then disappears.
ERRGGGHHH

 

[MidChristmasCrisis]

We d respond..but ours is a 17.5 inch Kent and Masters so too big for you

 

[GrassChop]

Selling is just as bad.
Is this available?
Yes
Is it full size / red / 6 ft / 17” ( or what ever )?
Yes
The buyer then disappears.
ERRGGGHHH

Exactly this!! It's infuriating! Or they put something up for sell with the worst picture ever. I've literally told someone I want to buy it and they're not responding. Why put something up for sale if you're not actually going to do it?

 

[TheOldTrout]

I have a 17 inch Wintec for sale if that's any use?

 

[GrassChop]

I have a 17 inch Wintec for sale if that's any use?

Thank you, that's very kind of you. I don't think they have the 3/4 gussets but I appreciate your offer a lot.

 

[GrassChop]

I ended up going for the last option which was the more expensive one which I've just paid for and now the other two that were much cheaper have messaged back after days of ignoring or reading and not responding. Typical.

 

[splashgirl45]

I’ve got a saddle up for sale and the only replies I’ve had were very odd, one was from a chap who wanted to pay the full price to me by PayPal or direct to my bank and said his oldest son would collect that evening . After a bit of detective work this person seems to live in Turkey , he was pressurising me to sell to him and I just said I had someone else interested and then deleted the ad. I assume it was some sort of scam but it scared me a bit.

 

[MereChristmas]

I’ve got a saddle up for sale and the only replies I’ve had were very odd, one was from a chap who wanted to pay the full price to me by PayPal or direct to my bank and said his oldest son would collect that evening . After a bit of detective work this person seems to live in Turkey , he was pressurising me to sell to him and I just said I had someone else interested and then deleted the ad. I assume it was some sort of scam but it scared me a bit.

I have had 3 or 4 enquiries about my saddle from people with foreign sounding names. This is on Facebook. I investigated the person’s profile and each time found they had no friends or history and were in Eastern Europe or similar.
Delete the messages, delete, delete

 

[splashgirl45]

I have had 3 or 4 enquiries about my saddle from people with foreign sounding names. This is on Facebook. I investigated the person’s profile and each time found they had no friends or history and were in Eastern Europe or similar.
Delete the messages, delete, delete

These were from Facebook, I had put £450 ono and none of them tried to pay less just said they would pay asking price , that was the first inkling of them not being genuine.. glad I’m not the only one

 

[GrassChop]

I’ve got a saddle up for sale and the only replies I’ve had were very odd, one was from a chap who wanted to pay the full price to me by PayPal or direct to my bank and said his oldest son would collect that evening . After a bit of detective work this person seems to live in Turkey , he was pressurising me to sell to him and I just said I had someone else interested and then deleted the ad. I assume it was some sort of scam but it scared me a bit.

I have had 3 or 4 enquiries about my saddle from people with foreign sounding names. This is on Facebook. I investigated the person’s profile and each time found they had no friends or history and were in Eastern Europe or similar.
Delete the messages, delete, delete

That's so odd. It would make sense why I was seeing quite a lot either listed at £1 with a note to say it was listed as that due to scammers or the title saying no scammers in capitals. I wonder what they even achieve from doing that.

 

[Lucky Snowball]

Sheepham?

 

[tyner]

For sellers that are getting the runaround, why not list on eBay?

I had a great saddle buying experience there recently. Was not packaged the best but maybe they were salty as I got a really nice saddle for an absolute steal.

Most sellers put the shipping cost at 25 or so. It likely is not that expensive to ship.

You can set the reserve so you don't miss out and it helps with not having to deal with things locally.

If you're looking for a saddle and know exactly what you want, put a few sales alterts on for that exact one and you might just score the bargain of the century.

 

[Identityincrisis]

I’ve got a saddle up for sale and the only replies I’ve had were very odd, one was from a chap who wanted to pay the full price to me by PayPal or direct to my bank and said his oldest son would collect that evening . After a bit of detective work this person seems to live in Turkey , he was pressurising me to sell to him and I just said I had someone else interested and then deleted the ad. I assume it was some sort of scam but it scared me a bit.

This is a very common scam, i don’t know how they do it but they get the goods collected and get the money back. I know someone who fell for it

 

[GrassChop]

Sheepham?

They had one which ticked all the boxes but I just couldn't stretch to that price.

 

[GrassChop]

This is a very common scam, i don’t know how they do it but they get the goods collected and get the money back. I know someone who fell for it

Oh so they actually collect the item as well! That's awful. I wonder how they manage to do that with Paypal.

 

[Laurac13]

I’ve sold 2 saddles on eBay both good experiences

 

[GrassChop]

For sellers that are getting the runaround, why not list on eBay?

I had a great saddle buying experience there recently. Was not packaged the best but maybe they were salty as I got a really nice saddle for an absolute steal.

Most sellers put the shipping cost at 25 or so. It likely is not that expensive to ship.

You can set the reserve so you don't miss out and it helps with not having to deal with things locally.

If you're looking for a saddle and know exactly what you want, put a few sales alterts on for that exact one and you might just score the bargain of the century.

I've posted several saddles at no more than £15 but I suppose they make their money on it a bit more.

eBay is much easier to just buy something without relying on someone responding but it really gripes me when they put only a couple of pictures up of a saddle so there's nothing there to see what the panels underneath are like, the front gussets etc and then don't reply to messages if you need more pictures. I'm sure a lot of people aren't going to spend £500 on something without more than a photo of one side of a saddle.

 

[Identityincrisis]

Oh so they actually collect the item as well! That's awful. I wonder how they manage to do that with Paypal.

Yes, my friend gave the ipad to a courier. No idea how it works but it does. People are just so unscrupulous