looking for new horse but everything seems quite overpriced!!

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how do you tell a vendor there horse is overpriced?? is there anypoint in me looking at the horse if i think its overpriced? are folk just pushing their luck??!!
 
nope i went and looked at a horse for 5000 with a friend before and got it down to 3000 as that is all friend had
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I think prob pushing there luck, especially with how things are at the moment. I'd just go in with a lower offer. You gotta haggle!
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nope i went and looked at a horse for 5000 with a friend before and got it down to 3000 as that is all friend had
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Wowzers!!! that is haggling!!
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I think that providing you arre offering a fair price for the horse you can pretty much go for it, but I wouldn't waste time on ones that are too overpriced.

I would quiz them on the phone as to whether the price is negotiable before you spend time going to try anything.
 
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There was a horse in our yard being advertised for 6000 and I got him for 1800!

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What!!!!
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thats unreal! well done you. They must of known you would give him a great home.

I would phone and see if are prepared to come down. They prob will. By the sounds of all these posts you stand a good chance! best of luck.
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im having the same problems

i thought with the current climate things would be cheaper but it doesnt appear that way lol

im hopin to view some a tiny bit over my budget and make offers
 
Make sure you ask whether the price is negotiable over the phone. Otherwise you are wasting both theirs and your time. I was very clear with mine being sold the price was non negotiable!!!
 
He was the most gorgeous sweetnatured TB. Bit of a handful to ride when jumping but a really, really lovely chap. And he could jump...often jumped out of his paddock to be with his friends. HM got a bargain. A case of being in the right place at the right time.
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i think the problem also is that as a seller people are offering silly prices.
My friend has a horse advertised at 6k ono - nice horse.
She would take 5.5k for him...

She has however has people ask if she is open to offers and then proceed to offer 4k for him - then the potential buyers get the arse that she says no.

I can understand if the horse was rubbish - but he is truly genuine.

She has now put him on for 7k in the hope of getting what she actually wants for him.
 
Just tell them your budget before you go. If they are not interested they will tell you and no-ones time is wasted. When i was looking i rang up about "the others available" as the one advertised was out of my price range but the vendors actually said to go and see her as they were willing to go down to my price due to lack of interest. I actually ended up buying one of the others available though!
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You can only ask at the end of the day and the market is slow at the moment.
 
The price is on the advert for a reason. Its an unwritten rule that a bit of haggling is expected but I think its cheeky to look at a horse knowing you can't afford what it costs.
 
Always worth a try!!! Just try not to insult!! Very hard to know the boundary! I think alot of people have already had to reduce the price of the horse to cope with the current climate/market! There's a horse on our yard who is a 5k horse but I think you'd get him for 4k possibly even slightly less!!! His advert has already been reduced now up at 4.25K so if someone came in offering 3k I think that maybe an insult! But it also depends on how you phrase it! If you just offer less it's more likely to be taken as insult especially if you go and try first. But if you tell the seller your budget first then less likely to take it as an insult???????
 
Depends on what your selling, I ask good money for mine but they are EXACTLY as described and all straight and easy, they don't have any hidden quirks etc. and so i do think you get what you pay for.
 
No he was a lovely 7yo TB probably the nicest natured horse I have ever known. Had been bought for a spoiled brat who had lost interest (along with her two other horses) and was sitting in field doing nothing so he was not selling at that price. (They had paid a lot for him as a five year old from a well known eventer). I did all local events and pre novice on him. Unfortunately he did die aged 14 of cancer. He was a bargain though - would jump anything.
 
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