Making an offer on a horse

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If you were selling a slightly green 5yr old for £1800, would you think it too cheeky for the prospective buyer to offer £1400, but then expect to pay £1500 or £1600?

Advert says 'home more important than price' and open to offers.
 
Go for it. I never expect to get the advertised price i always leave an area for negotiation.
I have two ponies for sale at the moment and have had one call on each so I would say it is a buyers market.#
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Make the offer - they can only say no and would expect offers with that in the advert. Explain why you are an excellent home.

Someone at my yard got a £1500 horse for 500, but the owner was clearly terrified of it and wanted rid. But be reasonable - I believe in treating others how I would like to be treated and you wouldn't want them to think you had no money to care for it. :)

Paula
 
I think that is a very reasonable offer. I paid £1550 LESS than the advert price for my mare. I do feel that they had overpriced her by at least £500 but I told them what I could pay and they wanted me to have her. Go for it!
 
It all depends how much I want to sel the horse. I sold a stallion and a colt in the spring. One I reduced the price signifcantly because I didn't really need him and he was related to my mares. The lady who came looking for him really wanted him for riding so it would get my name out there. The other I held out for the full asking price as I could have showed him myself for a couple of years and even used him on a couple of my mares. I always price my horses according to how much I want to keep them. When anybody asks me the worth of a horse that is always my answer. Give it a go, if you read the advert they are expecting offers, your figures seem realistic to me.
 
it all depends on how you offer it. I get really annoyed by people who ring up, ask the price and then say thats far too much for xyz will you take less. i always say no. I am not prepared to negotiate price until they have seen the horse, and tried it out. it actually really puts my back up and I just won;t bother showing them the horse. So see it, try it, then offer and discuss. no one minds an offer being made, its just the way it is done that affects the outcome
 
Bosworth said:
it all depends on how you offer it. I get really annoyed by people who ring up, ask the price and then say thats far too much for xyz will you take less. i always say no. I am not prepared to negotiate price until they have seen the horse, and tried it out. it actually really puts my back up and I just won;t bother showing them the horse. So see it, try it, then offer and discuss. no one minds an offer being made, its just the way it is done that affects the outcome
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Sorry, I should have said, I have already seen the horse and have arranged to go back tomorrow to try again, spoken to owner about vettings etc
 
Thats perfect :) Someone last night asked about a horse I am thinking of selling. Their opening line was thats too much for a 14 year old with a tie back. How the hell do they know, they have not been to see him. In actual fact in my opinion i was asking a low price as I want him to have a good home and would have been prepared to negotiate. However she put my back up immediately with that attitude so i told her to forget it. You have done it in exactly the way I would want, and then you can negotiate, you have seen him, you are serious, and they have met you. Go for it. and i hope you get him. Strangely enough the person who was possibly interested in mine has been looking for a long time................ i wonder why!
 
It depends, I have offered my horse at a low price in order to sell it, I don't want offers or I would have put it in at a the lower price. I should have said no offers on the advert, I should also have said no timewasters who do not have any money.
It is five months since he was on the market, and he will be sold today subject to him loading quietly. I have had him at two prices he has had schooling in order to make him easy to ride , and a better saddle, as the old one was OK for light hacking but no use for schooling. Needless to say the purchaser has only seen the lower priced advert, so reluctantly I have agreed to that price.
It matters not that in spite of advertising on six sites, I have only had one person able to ride and able to pay.
I exclude one who offered half price unseen , and one half his value after riding him, I think it would have been better to put him in at a much higher price, but I was unable to change all the adverts.
 
I made an offer on a horse a couple of weeks ago over the 'phone and without viewing - obviously the offer was subject to viewing, the horse and I liking each other, vetting etc.

The seller refused the offer, the horse is still for sale and I will ring again in a couple of weeks. My offer was what the horse is worth to me based on what the seller told me about it. It isn't that I can't afford the asking price - I can - but simply that I offered what I am willing to pay.

The reason I did it this was is because the horse is a 7 hour round trip, plus viewing time. I can't see the point of travelling that sort of distance, liking the horse and then making an offer to have it rejected. Might as well both know where we stand before I get in my car.
 
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