Selling horses - sick already

I agree with metalmare, I have looked at horses and when reading things like 'experienced riders only' I wonder whether the horse has some serious issues (when there is no other apparent reason ie green horse)?
But at the same time I know of some horses which indeed were not a novice ride at all, or even rideable who were advertised as a 'family horse'!
When selling my car online out of 10 emails I got 9 were scammers!
 
LouS said:
North East england, I thought selling her cheap might be a good thing as there might be someone who is a decent rider but doesn't have the funds as she really is a competition type horse, well actually she'd be a fantastic pony club thing/hunter etc, but not for someone incompetent!, she needs a quiet rider.


We'll see.
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Shame your so far, my friend is looking for something and may have been intrested. Good luck!
 
When I sell horses, I absolutely grill them over the phone. No one is allowed near the horse until they have answered all my questions. I am nice about it but quickly filter out idiots. Its in my interest to have a good match.
I always write no text messages at the bottom and that they can have video if they email me.

I basically ask them over the phone what they are looking for and what they plan to do and this can then lead into lots of questions about experience and what they have done/plan to do.
 
I am currently selling a horse. I purposely put him up for a little more than I wanted to get for him, to filter out the idiots who ring up! It has worked although I have had less phone calls, the people who call are normally interested and not time wasters or i tell them out right he may not be suitable (Although there have been 1 or 2) and yes people still email me and ask me to loan him even though he is up for sale for a substantial amount! At present I am just trying to be patient and am sure the right person will come along in the end. Good luck with your sale- it is at the moment a buyers market, so you just have to bide your time- I would definitely increase your price and see who you get calling you. :)
 
I was going to get new photos today and put her up for more but the weather is dismal and I've just had a nice, sane sounding lady on the phone who wants to try her tomorrow morning so I'll hold off and see what comes of this. Fingers crossed. Would you believe that's the first phone call I've had, yet had about 30 emails, I really wish people would use the phone!
 
Oh LouS,

I feel your pain!! I have been trying to sell my boy for months now and he is totally sane and sensible. I have been inundated with people asking for loans, a lady who said that could she have him now and pay for him in 4 months time as her husband had always wanted a horse like mine...people trying him because then they could say they had ridden a big black horse, someone from a riding school saying they would take him off my hands etc etc etc!!! A sale falling through because his bloodlines weren't right..............

I have now found him a lovely home not even an hour down the road. Got the money I wanted for him and the girl loves him to bits and accepts all his quirks and foibles.

Hang on in there, and I would agree that keeping the price up does help as it puts off some, if not all of the numpties!! BTW, your horse sounds lovely, I'm in NE, whereabouts are you as I now have the funds to buy another!!! ;);)

PS. I am a quiet rider, my lower leg doesn't wobble about, oh and is it ok if I pay in installments?? :D
 
I advertised a project as forward going and liable to run away if permitted. Got loads me kids who could just canter texting me and one old boy who asked if he'd be suitable for new starters, I confirmed and he did indeed mean complete beginners. Hang on in. Mine got a lovely home.
 
I paid for a horse in instalments (it was £800) when I was younger, I was more than able to care for the horse adequately but was buying a second horse so didn't have the cash from a previous sale. The owner was happy and I paid £100 a week for the horse.
 
I sold my mare and the buyers paid in installments.

It was a good home but they were trying to sell their other horse. I wrote up a contract that stated they had had to pay in three installments over 3 months or when their other horse sold, which ever was sooner.

They did pay up in full in the allotted time and I had no problems. However the way I had worded my contract would have made it VERY difficult for them to send me the mare back. I also put in a clause that if they did have to send the mare back then they forfeited any money they had paid me so far. They read, signed and agreed to all my terms.

Paying in installments is okay if you get the contract right - my brother is a solicitor so he checked it over and assured me it would be legally binding.
 
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I had a contract drawn up when I bought wichita in 2007 under installments. I had just finished teacher training and so had little savings as such but could afford outgoing and instalments no problem. It was agreed I would pay 300 pounds over 4 months, and ownership would only pass to me on completion of payments. It worked well for both parties as the seller no longer had to pay livery/bills for a difficult to sell horse.
 
A friend sold her horse by installments and had the devils own job to get money off them beyond the first payment.
 
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