Pricing of horses

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I've finally made the decision that i'm going to sell my boy and I'm just rather stuck as to what to ask for him. I've got someone who is interested who I know so I don't want to come across as really greedy but I do need the cash to buy myself a new horse so I'm a bit stuck with what to ask for him :(
Could I have some ideas off people with what they would think he would fetch? Details below of him.

15"3h, 9 years old, TB gelding, bay. Hacks out in groups always has brakes, hacks out alone never a problem. 100% with traffic, shoeing, travels alone in a trailer/lorry, stands at shows. Sweet natured, never bucks, bolts or rears. Has hunted 1 1/2 seasons. Natural cross country horse, leads or follows. Will do a good dressage test, nicely schooled. Will showjump but is green in this respect but very willing. His only real fault is his greeness with showjumping. He's got the scope but i've not got a school or my own transport so never been able to put 100% of work into it. He'll happily hunt/cross country round 3'3 or hedges etc though.
My reason for selling is i'd like to move on with hunting the bigger days and I just don't feel like him and I as a pair are quite forward going enough anymore.

Would really appreciate any views/opinions on this as I'm a bit stuck. To me he's a safe, sweet, nice looking horse who is very willing and will make a lovely allrounder for someone.
 
just to warn you that you will probably have this taken off as the rules are pretty strict about asking for guideline prices - doesn't bother me but just to warn you.

When I was looking to sell my boy, I wrote out a list of his attributes, then hunted for similiar sounding horses and took the middle road on his pricing. H&H seems to be at the top end, Horsquest middle to top end, and horsemart - more competively priced. I also asked a friend to look over the ad to stress his positives and make sure I had covered all the relevant points (like age, breeding, history and height! plus location..)

We also spent some time getting decent photos in focus on a clean tidy looking horse - jumping and dressage. I did actually put in a head shot in and not the confirmation shot because the head shot was stunning. ( - though from a practical perspective, the confirmation would have been more help.). Fingers crossed it worked as he is being vetted tomorrow (and I really like the people who came to see him!)
 
Ah thank you for the warning, to the admin apologies as I wasn't meaning to step out of the guidelines!

He's going off on trial for a week but I've only given the girl a guideline figure as I was going to price him fairly high to the open market but now a bit stuck as she's someone i know and i know he'd be in a 5* home if he did go to her so willing to relax the price a little you see. All very confusing this horse selling malarkey :)
 
In the current market I think a safe hack/hunter of his age should be priced at around the £3000 mark.....

Hope that helps!
 
I'm not sure really, you say he's a natural XC horse, but then he must be pretty limited if you want something else to do bigger days hunting?

From all you've said I think 2k max.
 
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