Selling a saddle?

[Calumjt]

Hi, I’m needing some advice! I’m desperately trying to sell my devoucoux saddle as it doesn’t fit my new horse (which I’m gutted about as I love it!) I’ve tried eBay, Facebook pages and preloved but have had no luck at all. I believe it’s reasonably priced and it’s in good condition. Does anyone have any suggestions of where or how I could sell it? TIA

 

[EllenJay]

Have you tried the saddle bank?

 

[Diddleydoo]

I've sold through both Sheepham saddles and Saddles Direct. Sheepham were good and took less of a cut than Saddles Direct. I've got one with the Saddle bank at the moment but unfortunately it's not sold yet.

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

Feeling your pain. I had a saddle for sale which I wasn't prepared to give away basically, and had it on Preloved for a year and a day! By which time I was just about to take it down, and that very day I had a message from someone who was a fitter for that particular make/brand of saddle, and they wanted it for a client!

The problem if you take it to second-hand-tack places is that you'll pay huge commission; having said that, I did have a Barefoot saddle (treeless) that wasn't fitting my youngster and took it to a local place. They charged 20% commission plus £25 to list on FB/social media, but it did sell reasonably quickly and I was glad to be rid of it. E-bay will also take a goodly slice, plus you'll have the hassle of packaging it up and sending it off - and the resultant worry the dang thing will get lost in transit and you'll have to bear the financial burden of that!

Personally, I'd go for the second-hand-tackshop route if I was selling another saddle.

 

[hopscotch bandit]

I've advertised my dressage saddle at various feed merchants, Gumtree, FB selling pages, the works. Still no joy. Going to try again in the Spring, again mine has only been used a dozen times, and I've already knocked £400 off it. Its dissapointing to say the least.

 

[Squeak]

I managed to sell mine on ebay in the end. I took advantage of a £1 max selling fee deal from ebay and then took an offer that was still higher than the commission would have cost me (~20%).