Offering half the asking price

no and no, and if i was offered half the asking price i would find it rather insulting! it would have to be extreme circumstances for me to consider insulting someone else that much too!
 
I personally wouldnt. However, i do know someone who offered £2000 for a horse up for sale at £6,000. She is a very good rider and the owner wanted the best for the horse therefore let it go for considerably less money!
 
no i havent and if someone offered me half or the asking price for mine i would be insulted but then if i were looking i'd love to have the balls to ask - you dont ask you dont get any way - although my friend did offer half for a very decent lorry and for some reason the accepted! depends on the situation the seller is in - if the horse has to go they would be more likely to accept but if its a hard sale and very sentimental then they would probably be offended!
 
Although, I usually pay pretty much the full price and would see such an offer as insulting, I did once.
Had a buget of £3000 and my local tack shop owner told me of a customers horse priced at £5500. Despite saying what my budget was, she said a good home was more important to the owners and advised me to ring.
Rather embarrassed, I did and was surprised to hear they they wanted to show me the horse.

Never did see it though, a couple of reliable sources knew the horse and told me why they were selling. :rolleyes:
 
The sellers of my current horse had one on the market for $80000 (aud) and told me someone offered $20000 on the basis that it was grey so the tie and effort they'd have to spend bathing it warranted the discount :p:confused:

Although a horse is only truly worth what you're willing to pay for it (the example above was recently resold way into figures :eek:) I would have been very offended if someone had offered me half the price Luce was advertised for when he was sold.
 
Ive never asked for half the price, but depending on, circumstances of sale, sellers, and starting price i'll look at offering a couple of thousand below, expecting a bit of come and go with the seller to get a grand off :D
I wont accept rugs, tack etc as a package unless I know theyre in good condition and that the tack fits well.
 
Why not :)

Although I'd only offer that low if that was what I thought the horse was worth though (ie the seller had massively overestimated the price). Only downside is if you really like the horse and you don't present the offer in the right way you could really offend the seller and miss out on the horse.
 
no I wouldnt. If the owner thinks its worth X or in the region of X, and I dont think so, I might offer a bit less but half? No.

And if someone offered me half what I was asking theyd get short thrift.
 
Depends on the situation, usually I would not and most my horses have been bought at or near the asking price but there have been two occassions when I have paid significantly less for a horse than it was being advertised for. Both cases I really liked the horses in question but just did not feel that, as they stood, they were worth the money being asked. One horse was advertised £12500, I offered £7000 and bought for £7500 and the other horse was advertised at £8000 and I offered and paid £4000.
 
I offered less than half the original asking price...horse had been up for sale for several months, price had gone down in meantime....I feel he was overpriced in the first place and had issues needing sorting.

They said yes....because they knew he would have a good home.
 
Only once.

Horse was bought very short time before for £3.5k, too much horse for the girl and ended up napping/rearing/bucking very quickly.

I knew the horse from the previous owners and offered the new owner £1.5k (she wanted full purchase price back).

She said no and I left it at that- 2 days later she rang back to accept my offer :)

I certainly wouldn't offer 1/2 price if the horse was as described as I wouldn't have gone to see it in the first place if I didn't think it was worth around the asking price.
 
millitiger said:
I certainly wouldn't offer 1/2 price if the horse was as described as I wouldn't have gone to see it in the first place if I didn't think it was worth around the asking price.
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My thoughts exactly. If its not worth the asking price (or region of) its not the horse I thought I was going to see and therefore Id keep looking.
 
Would I do it? No :)

I have had people do this to me before - usually the dealer type chappies who come with a trailer the day before the livestock auctions ;) I tell them to take a hike, or try again.

As a seller if I was going to accept half the price that is what I would ask for in the first place.

However, if you have the balls to do it, and don't mind a reaction from :confused: to :eek: to :mad: to :p then do it, you may get someone who is desperate enough to shake you by the hand and relieve you of what cash you have. :)
 
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If it had 'failed' the vetting, but still wanted it, I might consider making a low offer...

Otherwise I think it would be a bit cheeky, but that's just me!
 
I have - offered meat price for my mare as she was 12 years old, had just weaned a foal but was not in foal and was not even halter broken.
( & had huge scars on her forelegs that were not mentioned in the advert.)
 
Some people seem to really overprice their horses. I had one on part loan and the girl decided to sell, she wanted £3000, the horse *used* to be a good dressage horse when she bought her about 6 years before, but she didn't like dressage so didn't do it. The mare was VERY stroppy around certain times and so nervous about hacking out on the roads I didn't persevere with it for my own safety, just stayed in the school. She was a nice horse sometimes but I think I could have got a better one for £1500. I did try to gently say £2000 would be a bit more realistic if that!

I also think if you're offering to sell your horse to someone who has been loaning or sharing it after a long time of it standing in a field doing its own thing, therefore getting it back into work and fit, it would be nice to offer a considerable discount for all their hard work :-)
 
A friend recently offered something like £250 less than the asking price as the tack being included in the price was pretty tatty and she didn't really want it. Owner burst into tears and then told her she was taking the p*ss!!
 
I have.

Ex-racehorse being sold from the field by the trainer with injury history. Asking £1500 I offered £500, ended up paying £650.

My horse I bought to BSJA I offered £6k against a £8.5k asking price and we agreed £6700.

Both were based on what I thought were fair assessments of the horses values given other horses being advertised at the time.
 
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