Rant - Ickle one I promise

[Nic]

does anyone else get annoyed by people not putting prices on adverts for horses?

How am I supposed to know if I can afford it or not?!

See said it was ickle

 

[Scoopy]

If there's no price shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh there free !

Well thats what my mum used to tell me when i was young !

 

[Tia]

Yes! That is one of my biggest bugbears when I am buying. I always price my horses when I advertise them.

 

[Nic]

Woohooo

Tia: can you come back here & try to instill sense in stupid horsey people please!

 

[Scoopy]

NEVER !

My mum was always right !

 

[Tia]

LOL!! They wouldn't listen to me.....best thing you can do is NOT respond to their adverts! If they can't be bothered to figure out the correct pricing of their horse then can you be bothered to reply?

I know it can be quite tricky finding the correct price.....but I still don't think it is an excuse to not mention one. They'll soon find out if the price is incorrect.

 

[Scoopy]

Anyway i dont know why your ranting ?

You have my boy coming to you, when we decided to have kids, did i not tell you that ? ops !

 

[Nic]

Eh?

Nope fill me in!

 

[siennamiller]

maybe they think that if you have to ask then you can't afford. I always ignore those for that reason?
A xx

 

[Scoopy]

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh its a secret but he's coming to you one day for a few years, i want to be in the members box at Badminton !

 

[Nic]

Yeah me too, but I found a nice pony in Ireland that I thought I might be able to afford. I'm not gona phone incase they say 10k & I choke & put the phone down

 

[Nic]

How exciting better get my ar$e in gear then & get up the grades

 

[icestationzebra]

I do - and I don't think it is that smart if you really want to sell. When I was looking I never rang up about any horse that didn't have a price as I didn't want to be horribly embarrassed when it was way out my league!

 

[Nic]

ditto!

 

[Kelly1982]

That really bugs me too. I ignore ads like that as it usually means the horse is too expensive for me anyway LOL.

 

[Skhosu]

No, I tend to assume it is expensive, but I haven't put prices on anything over 5K yet, and wouldn't for a pony.
For a horse I would have the limit higher.
As of yet, had no problems this way!
Still got an ad up though so will see how many people ring and can't afford...

 

[Nic]

EEk your not selling a bay on horseselect are you?

 

[MissDeMeena]

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does anyone else get annoyed by people not putting prices on adverts

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Have you ever heard the saying "if you have to ask how much it is, you can't afford it"

more apt. for shoping in Harrods tho i guess hehe

 

[lorenababbit]

its to make you call and ask and then be persuaded that you will go look after all. like most things though if you have to ask the price, you cant afford it!!

 

[lizzie_liz]

It irritates me especially when many of us on here are on a strict budget when it comes to buying. i assume no price, its too expensive so don't ring! if i did and it was too expensive its a waste of mine and their time

 

[Skhosu]

Nope! A grey pony on horseabout. Typically we put it up for sale, that afternoon promptly went lame with an abcess! So 6 weeks on he's available again!
'ts to make you call and ask and then be persuaded that you will go look after all.'
I disagree, we discussed price on the phone and some couldn't afford, most could, those who couldn't would have called anyway in teh attempt to make us think they were a 'good' home and to drop the price 5 grand (mind, we still had an exceptionally rich person offer half of what we were asking..the mind boggles!)

 

[Skhosu]

but if your looking a nice pony...there's one over here! ;D

 

[Foxford]

It's annoying I agree. It would help to compare with other horses without having to phone and bother the seller to find out price. Erm, and I'm nosey!!!

 

[wizzi901]

used to but not anymore. If I had thought like that wouldnt have my fab boy!!

He was ex grade A and has taught me loads. Had I even seen photos (which I did later via email and thought at the time I woudnt be near what they wanted for him!!), my budget was £1700, the horse was worth a lot more BUT they didnt advertise his skills at all, very plain advert and it was clear when I spoke to them that he was talented, BUT home more important and the promise of him never being affiliated again, for him to have fun and enjoy his retirement from professional jumping.

I got him at a steal as I was the right person and home for him, had I seen pictures and they had put a price like that on him they would have been flooded with enquiries.

As it was they turned away many people before I came along, people that just wanted to jump and jump him! - they even told one girl to get off him lol!!

So dont be put off, its always worth asking if the horse looks like what you want.......if its a blatant POA yes probably shed loads, but if it doesnt say at all, ASK before assuming its silly money, it may indeed be a lot lower than you think!!

BTW my boy was a bargain in the end, and fitted my price range (plus they shipped him over for me and paid for my tickets to go over and try him!!).

 

[Weezy]

Nope never EVER call about a POA horse as it simply irks me! Never ever understand why people cannot say "this is my horse, this is its worth" not hard is it!

 

[Sooty]

I hate that on all adverts - horses, cars, houses - why?? Price on application. Surely that's inviting timewasters? I just ignore them.

 

[skye123]

when i was looking for a horse my mum always said if there wasnt a price on the advert not to bother ringing up!

 

[teapot]

location annoys me too especially if it's a share advert

But big bug bear numero uno is overpricing. You know little welsh c I was sharing? The price it's up for sale at is just laughable

 

[gnubee]

Maybe the reason so many people with horses that really dont look like theyre worth tens of thousands now are POAing is that there is little value in putting up the price you're asking anyway. If you ask £2000 for a £2000 horse people want to know whats wrong with it because everything similar is on for 4k. If you advertise at 4K people want to know why you wont knock of 60% because thats what the last three people they called for horses at that amount were willing to go down to. Given that no one trusts advertised prices anymore anyway, perhaps advertising POA is seen as a way of weeding out people who arent willing to be realistic about price.

Having said that, it does annoy the heck out of me.
Cant decide whether to ring up and offer £1000 for every unpriced horse out there or not call about any of them ever.

 

[evsj]

I think people who don't name a price in ads then tailor the price to the person who enquires. i.e. the more daft or minted someone sounds (if it is possible to judge wealth through someones voice?) the higher the price.

Example: I know someone who recently sold a horse through horsemart recently. They offered horse to me at 2k, told someone else on yard they wanted 3.5k and then sold her to some poor unsuspecting punter through the ad for undisclosed amount!!