Only one call for my boy :(

OP I am looking to buy and am in your area - I'm afraid I saw your advert, thought 'nice looking horse' and then scrolled down to the next one. The price did put me off - for £4k+ I would want a horse ready to go out and compete, not a horse that has done very little for the past year & where one of the main selling points is one season of showing in 2009 - that will sound, written down, much meaner than I intend so I apologise for that. I just mean that I'm not interested in showing, only dressage & SJ with hacking & XC thrown in, so that's what I'm looking for in an advert for an allrounder. Other people will value that though.
I'm afraid I also agree with those who say his value as a foal is meaningless to anyone other than you.
I don't mean to pull apart your advert or your beautiful horse, I'm just explaining why I didn't phone. But I'm just one person! The right owner for your boy is out there :-)
 
He's lovely :) Try arabian lines too. Plus with those paces/breeding he'd make a nice endurance horse I reckon.

If you look at the others in that price range, they're all doing things NOW - they've either been hunting this last season, or showing, or they've got a recent affiliated record. Or they're being sold through a dealer with a dealer's premium (but for that you'd get after sales service). Your ad gives the impression that that the horse has done next to nothing over recent years - everything is historic and then you say that you've had a baby so don't have time for him.

Definitely re-word your ad and bring the price down a bit.
 
Ok, many thanks for your views. Its interesting to see how people view the ad so thanks.
As I don't have any real interest in jumping or x-country I guess I didn't think to put that in the ad. My hubby's home next week so il drag him up the yard and get him to take some pics of me jumping, and set some x-country jumps up around the field. I won't be able to get him out and about though so that is going to effect his value I guess.
 
Took me from jan till a few weeks ago to sell my lovely mare. Propper jumper type. Went from 8.5k to 6k in order to sell. I did sell and she was sadly pts after an accident in the trailer when they picked her up :(

Gone off point a bit there! Good horses are shifting for decent money but everything else is a bit sticky. Maybe get the horse out and about a bit more? Someone made me a decent offer (not quite decent enough for me to say yes) for my new young horse
 
SNORKEY said:
Thanks, il try not to take it to heart too much but he's worth more than £2.5k. He cost £2k as a foal!
He is good in traffic and would be very good at dressage. When I look on horse quest there are others like him going for about the same, some a bit more and some less.
I think £3.5k would be my lowest. I'd rather keep him than let him go for less than that.
Maybe il let him go out on loan if he doesn't sell. I didn't know the market had got that bad, I sold a nice coloured that had only just started showing for £5k easily about 4yrs ago!
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If you want to sell him you need to remember he is not in the age bracket where his potential to do something will add to his value at eleven a horse makes its value because it is doing things so the comparison with your young one shoe horse is not really a comparison .
 
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